{"id":1487,"date":"2012-12-13T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T14:54:30","slug":"the-photographers-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/the-photographers-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photographer&#8217;s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been sick the past few days, and last night, I had the urge to shoot a little, but I sure as heck wasn&#8217;t going anywhere. \u00a0So, I tried &#8216;self eye macros&#8217;, which aren&#8217;t particularly easy. \u00a0Luckily, the OM-D and 60mm macro have pretty good autofocus, so I set up my camera on a tripod, placed a flashgun on RF trigger to the side, so I could illuminate the texture of the iris, positioned my eye dead center on the lens, and pressed the button. \u00a0Took a few tries to find the right distance for high magnification, but success! \u00a0I need to work a little on where to position the light in order to avoid the reflection of my eyelid and eyelashes in the eyeball, but that&#8217;s for another day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" style=\"width: 784px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1488\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eye.jpg\" width=\"784\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eye.jpg 784w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/eye-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Photographer&#8217;s Eye &#8211; Olympus OM-D E-M5 with Olympus 60mm f\/2.8 Macro @ f\/9 (Click to Enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been sick the past few days, and last night, I had the urge to shoot a little, but I sure as heck wasn&#8217;t going anywhere. \u00a0So, I tried &#8216;self eye macros&#8217;, which aren&#8217;t particularly easy. \u00a0Luckily, the OM-D and 60mm macro have pretty good autofocus, so I set up my camera on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[213,11,54,10,29],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-eye","tag-m43","tag-macro","tag-micro-43","tag-olympus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28RGq-nZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}