{"id":20546,"date":"2018-08-06T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20546"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:56:42","slug":"best-photo-august-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20546","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo: August 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20547\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/030806-Sarah-9483-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20547\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/030806-Sarah-9483-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah, Worthington Ohio. August 6, 2003.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I woke up this morning with this curious question on my mind: &#8220;What is the best photo I have ever taken on August 6?&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And then I got to wondering what a collection of photos would look like if I picked my favorite photo for each date of the year, all 366 of them (if I happened to take any favorite photos on Feb 29). So out of curiosity I decided to start with August 6 and see what I came up with.<\/p>\n<p>I have a folder on my computer with over 3,400 of my favorite images. It includes digital photos going back to 2003 (the year I got my first serious digital camera, a Canon 10D) and my favorite scanned slides going back to back to 1985 (with a small smattering of photos prior to 1985). If I took an equal number of photos on each day of the year (I don&#8217;t), I should find an average of about 9 photos for each date of the year.<\/p>\n<p>So I went back through each year to see if I took any photos on August 6.\u00c2\u00a0 I only found three photos, all of them portraits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180310-nature-photos-month-002b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180310-nature-photos-month-002b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180310-nature-photos-month-002b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180310-nature-photos-month-002b-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180310-nature-photos-month-002b-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>I already knew August is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19612\">not my favorite photography month<\/a> for nature photography. It looks like it isn&#8217;t for people photography either. That is a project I need to explore in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three favorite photos I found taken on August 6, this pre-wedding date portrait of Sarah is the best. Taken August 6, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>I was testing my first serious digital camera, a Canon 10D. I wanted to know how much flash exposure compensation I would need on the plus side to get a light and bright wedding dress. With no flash exposure compensation, the auto exposure system in digital cameras will take a white dress and render it closer to gray. Sarah was happy to put on her dress a few months before the wedding and let me experiment.<\/p>\n<p>This was so taken so long ago that there is no metadata attached to the file. I have no idea what settings I used. The only reason I know the date for this image is my habit of putting the date at the beginning of the file name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=19612\">What Is Your Favorite Nature Photography Season?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning with this curious question on my mind: &#8220;What is the best photo I have ever taken on August 6?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20546"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25058,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546\/revisions\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}