{"id":361,"date":"2008-02-13T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-02-13T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:38:00","slug":"just-messin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2008\/02\/13\/just-messin\/","title":{"rendered":"Just messin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, my crappy $100 digital camera (not my video camera \ud83d\ude42 ) can do some fairly spiffy macrophotography. I <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/355555\/shoot-close+up-like-a-pro-with-macro-photography\">read an article<\/a> last night on how to shoot close-ups like a pro and Crikey McNike (TM Nick Brendon) it actually kinda sorta worked.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/fiddly-716523.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/fiddly-716513.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I messed with it last night trying to get a shot of Shannon&#8217;s hands as she played her guitar but the light in my room is so ambient (just like I like it) that she either came out paler than pale with the flash, or bright orange without it. I might try again in sunlight or something.<\/p>\n<p>The pic above is just this little wire fiddly toy I mess with at my desk when I&#8217;m waiting for programs or pages to load on the comp. But this is fun! I might see if it would work with the photo option on my videocamera too. It has a zoom and my digital cam does not (told you, crappy camera. Want a better one.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple others I did with a mucho better camera. This is Sid the Wily Gnome who guards my monitor (Ok so I like tacky gnomes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/02\/gnomewrecker.html\">I just don&#8217;t let my daughter anywhere near them<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0004-726457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0004-726451.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0005-770889.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0005-770878.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, my crappy $100 digital camera (not my video camera \ud83d\ude42 ) can do some fairly spiffy macrophotography. I read an article last night on how to shoot close-ups like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}