{"id":152,"date":"2008-01-07T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-01-09T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T04:20:02","slug":"like-a-snowball-in-a-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/like-a-snowball-in-a-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"like a snowball in a blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/camo-atv.JPG\" title='when good ideas go wrong - there\u2019s usually a reason'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/camo-atv.thumbnail.JPG?w=625\" alt='when good ideas go wrong - there\u2019s usually a reason' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my time I&#8217;ve made my share of photo mistakes, and they&#8217;ve usually been the result of bad lighting decisions. So I couldn&#8217;t help but notice this manufacturer&#8217;s attempt to illustrate the product in a natural setting, the usual goal of product publicity. Unless the product features <a target=blank href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camouflage\">camouflage<\/a> and the setting is the deep woods.<\/p>\n<p>Photographers like to complain about the difficulty of certain setups as &#8220;being like&#8221; taking a picure of a lump of coal in a mineshaft. Or a snowball in a blizzard. Or, more common, of that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siebenthalercreative.com\/opinion\/050810_pro-photo.html\">newly polished piece of billet<\/a>. In this case the result isn&#8217;t fatal, but for one obvious reason it falls short of being an eyestopper.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of separation of product from background directs the eye to the model, not the product. Next time try some portable location lighting or prepare to spend a few hours in Photoshop to knock the background down a bit and open up the product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my time I&#8217;ve made my share of photo mistakes, and they&#8217;ve usually been the result of bad lighting decisions. So I couldn&#8217;t help but notice this manufacturer&#8217;s attempt to illustrate the product in a natural setting, the usual goal of product publicity. Unless the product features camouflage and the setting is the deep woods. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design-notes","category-marketplace-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-2s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}