{"id":578,"date":"2010-05-27T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:52:42","slug":"drawing-is-oooo-ver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"drawing is oooo-ver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-setup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-579\" title=\"photo setup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-setup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-setup.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-setup-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So today it&#8217;s back to&#8230; photography. There will be studio time later today, (HOORAY!) but for the moment, I&#8217;m working on shooting straight.<\/p>\n<p>I have a <a title=\"Leica\" href=\"http:\/\/en.leica-camera.com\/photography\/compact_cameras\/d-lux_4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leica D-Lux 4<\/a> which takes a pretty good shot. I know very little about cameras, but I have several friends with Leica&#8217;s, (and one with the cheaper but identical <a title=\"Same camera? Probably...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2009\/07\/panasonic-lumix-lx3-vs-leica-d-lux-4-or-how-to-charge-300-more-for-the-same-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Panasonic Lumix LX3<\/a>, you know who you are!) and generally, they rave about them. I try not to, but hey, here I am now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I&#8217;ve had this Leica with and without a lighting setup. I have to say, the lights are probably more important than the camera. I didn&#8217;t realise back in Perth (given the unmatchable access to powerful natural light year-round) how important lighting is, so I struggled in Melbourne for a while with my previous (but still not too bad) camera.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have the camera, and the modest light setup, and I can shoot this;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/before-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-580\" title=\"before - Iteration, mild steel, stainless cable. 2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/before-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/before-2.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/before-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and turn it into this!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/after-2-72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-581\" title=\"after - Iteration, mild steel, stainless cable. 2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/after-2-72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/after-2-72.jpg 440w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/05\/after-2-72-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(hopefully there&#8217;s detectable improvement)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa talks camera, and lights, aaaand action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[36,27],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-documentation","tag-perth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}