{"id":1716,"date":"2015-08-04T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2015-08-04T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T08:12:09","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Self Portrait\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512-200x300.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1716\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I am working on a project just now to take a self portrait.\u00a0\u00a0 it is the current assignment for Camera School Creative in Practical Photography magazine.\u00a0 I have been finding it quite difficult to do, and have been much happier taking pictures of dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 But the deadline is getting very close.<\/p>\n<p>My problem is getting everything just right in the viewfinder while you are in front of the camera and not behind it!\u00a0\u00a0 And the tutors on the course say &#8211; no editing of the picture on the computer:\u00a0 get it right in the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of last night&#8217;s efforts, but I could not get away from hiding behind a dog\u00a0 &#8211; if you think you can hid behind such a little dog as Poppy.\u00a0 The real secret to this picture is Mary appearing in the garden and standing behind the camera.\u00a0 Poppy looked straight at her.\u00a0\u00a0 Snap!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1718 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4512\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512-624x936.jpg 624w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4512.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a project just now to take a self portrait.\u00a0\u00a0 it is the current assignment for Camera School Creative in Practical Photography magazine.\u00a0 I have been finding it quite difficult to do, and have been much happier taking pictures of dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 But the deadline is getting very close. My problem is getting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}