{"id":2981,"date":"2012-08-07T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:16:16","slug":"830-do-something-different-reader-photo-on-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/830-do-something-different-reader-photo-on-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"#830 &#8220;Do something different&#8221; &#8211; reader photo on the blog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/830-do-something-different-reader-photo-on-the-blog\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Last week we sent out our latest <a title=\"Photography Newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/ottawa_photographer_newsletter-htm.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fottawa_photographer_newsletter-htm.html','Photography+Newsletter')\">Exposed! photo newsletter<\/a> urging you to <a title=\"photo newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/newsletter\/do_something_differently_article.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fnewsletter%2Fdo_something_differently_article.html','photo+newsletter')\"><em>do something differently<\/em>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We poked you to start exploring new passions and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>And we asked you to send us something different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s submission, below, caught our eye and won its way onto the photo blog. He says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>That&#8217;s three of my four children, I was trying to get the youngest at 20 months to don a pair of goggles but she wasn&#8217;t to happy about it. My plan wasn&#8217;t to place all four images together, but while doing some adjustments in Lightroom, I thought I would try something different using Photoshop. \u00a0I was still thinking about the missing photo of my daughter that would have completed the scene, then remembered I had a colourful abstract shot of some pool flotation devices. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>All the images were shot on a very hot day with a helpful cloud cover, using a 50mm wide open at 1.8. On the smaller\u00a0APS-C\u00a0sensor, that equates to about 85mm, a nice portrait lens and one of my favourite focal\u00a0lengths.<\/em>&#8220;<\/div>\n<p>What caught our attention?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a photo of portraits of very different kids but all very similar &#8211; shot with a similar thread in a different way. I like it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicely done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And for his creative fun Robert wins one month in our <a title=\"Online photo course\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/memberships\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fmemberships%2F','Online+photo+course')\">Online Photo Program<\/a> &#8211; this month&#8217;s challenge is motion. Stay tuned for some <a title=\"Online photo class\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/826-online-photography-program-photo-challenge-results\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F07%2F31%2F826-online-photography-program-photo-challenge-results%2F','Online+photo+class')\">student results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"student photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/DoSomethingDifferentrobertmckenzie.jpg\" alt=\"student photo\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Robert M - Doing something differently<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Last week we sent out our latest Exposed! photo newsletter urging you to do something differently! We poked you to start exploring new passions and ideas. And we asked you to send us something different&#8230; Robert&#8217;s submission, below, caught <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/830-do-something-different-reader-photo-on-the-blog\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F08%2F07%2F830-do-something-different-reader-photo-on-the-blog%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,162,133,6,47,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}