{"id":1345,"date":"2009-04-26T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:56:46","slug":"photo-of-the-week-52-a-host-of-golden-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2009\/04\/26\/photo-of-the-week-52-a-host-of-golden-daffodils\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 62 &#8211; A Host of Golden Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Daffodils, and each time I see a clump of them together the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud\" target=\"_blank\">Wordswoth&#8217;s famous poem<\/a> always spring to mind. As beautiful as a &#8220;host&#8221; of Daffodils is to look at, I&#8217;ve found it really difficult to capture that beauty well with my camera. After much experimentation, I finally got a shot I&#8217;m happy with by using a combination of a shallow depth of field, and a very low camera position. This way one Daffodil could be picked out from the crowd, while allowing the rest to form a lovely yellow and green <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bokeh\" target=\"_blank\">bokeh<\/a>. The reason for getting down low is to allow the one chosen Daffodil to be raised above the others in the frame, making it stand out even more than a shallow depth of field alone would allow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc-8404.jpg\" alt=\"A Host of Golden Daffodils\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"307\" height=\"450\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3466761482\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3466761482\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Sigma EX 30mm F1.4<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/2500 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 30mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F2.8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Daffodils, and each time I see a clump of them together the words of Wordswoth&#8217;s famous poem always spring to mind. As beautiful as a &#8220;host&#8221; of Daffodils is to look at, I&#8217;ve found it really difficult to capture that beauty well with my camera. After much experimentation, I finally got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[57,28,184],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-flower","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-yellow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-lH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}