{"id":24424,"date":"2019-05-26T21:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24424"},"modified":"2019-05-26T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T02:44:25","slug":"favorite-photo-may-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24424","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, May 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190512-Bloomington-CofChrist-5D3-9542b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in Red, Bloomington Iowa\" class=\"wp-image-24425\"\/><figcaption>Portrait in Red, Bloomington Iowa. May 12, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was given a photographic assignment: Take casual, unstaged portraits of people at church for a video to be created at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I took dozens of photos. Many of them were during the morning worship service. The service had a summer camp theme and most of the children were sitting on blankets up front, like they would at a campfire. After the service this young lady in red was sitting on a chair by an outdoor window. She was playing with a carnation. I focused my attention on her. The light outside the window was changing and she was very active. Some of the photos were ok, some very nice, some not so good. I just kept watching her and the light and changing camera settings as the light changed.<\/p>\n<p>The light changed yet again. She put down the carnation and looked out the window. CLICK. It was my 35th photo of her. It was a magic moment with classic &#8220;Rembrandt Lighting&#8221;. I took 5 more photos of her, 41 in all, but frame 35 was the best. It is my favorite photo for May 12, and one of my all time favorite portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190512-Bloomington-CofChrist-5D3-9502-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24426\"\/><figcaption>The Pose, Bloomington Iowa. May 12, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few minutes before photographing the girl in red, I was photographing this girl playing on a blanket. I got down on the ground to be at eye level with her. I took several photo of her, and then she looked up and to her right. Someone looking at this portrait said &#8220;She looks like a dancer.&#8221;  She does. We have a professional ballerina in the family and I have seen her pose very much like this. This is my second favorite photo for this date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190512-Finn-candle-church-5D3-9421b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24427\"\/><figcaption>Finn, Bloomington Iowa. May 12, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the service some of the children got up to sing a song. Our grandson Finn was distracted by the candle on the worship center, quit singing, and tried to blow out the candle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190512-Terran-Finn-visit-5D3-9595b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24428\"\/><figcaption>Terran and Finn, Mother&#8217;s Day, Lamoni Iowa. May 12, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>That afternoon our grandson&#8217;s came over for Mother&#8217;s Day. When it was time for Finn&#8217;s nap, Terran read to him to help put him to sleep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0all about this series<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given a photographic assignment: Take casual, unstaged portraits of people at church for a video to be created at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424","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=24424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24431,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424\/revisions\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}