{"id":2073,"date":"2011-01-28T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2011-01-28T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:14:47","slug":"calla-leaves-ahwahnee-california-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/calla-leaves-ahwahnee-california-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Calla Leaves, Ahwahnee, California  2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2074\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2074\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2074\" title=\"201101_4252-Edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/201101_4252-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/201101_4252-Edit.jpg 286w, https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/201101_4252-Edit-238x500.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF70-200mm f\/2.8L USM__1.5 sec at f \/ 22__ISO 100<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the past couple of months, I have been watching this calla plant growing in my living\/dining room area.\u00a0 The light comes through two different windows to light the leaves to various effect.\u00a0 This past Sunday, I finally saw a composition worth setting up for.\u00a0 I hung up my black piece of velvet on the wall behind these leaves.\u00a0 I left my camera set up and made frames when I saw interesting light. I downloaded the images, looked at the new images, and was not particularly inspired by the results.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, four days later, I looked at the images again with Lightroom.\u00a0 Then it hit me that there was real potential here, made several adjustments to this image, including converting the image to BW.\u00a0 Bingo!\u00a0 I polished up the file this morning in Photoshop this morning.\u00a0 Here is the result!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy,\u00a0 Bill<\/p>\n<p>For more of my BW work, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/store\/ebooks\/meditations-in-monochrome\/index.html\">Meditations in Monochrome ebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/admin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/admin\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/store\/ebooks\/meditations-in-monochrome\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/store\/ebooks\/meditations-in-monochrome\/thumbs\/MeditationsinMonochromeSP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of months, I have been watching this calla plant growing in my living\/dining room area.\u00a0 The light comes through two different windows to light the leaves to various effect.\u00a0 This past Sunday, I finally saw a&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/calla-leaves-ahwahnee-california-2011\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,76,83,12],"tags":[40,31,37,23,36,88,154,82,58,147,34],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macro-photography","category-natures-design","category-patterns-of-nature","category-photography","tag-black-and-white","tag-canon-eos-1ds-mark-iii","tag-leaves","tag-lightroom","tag-lily","tag-macro-photograph","tag-nature","tag-nature-patterns","tag-photograph","tag-photography","tag-williamneill-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}