{"id":271,"date":"2014-11-29T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=271"},"modified":"2014-11-29T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T07:49:11","slug":"the-bringer-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"The Bringer of Light&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my newest pieces of gear arrived The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaphoto.com\/product\/em-140-dg-macro-flash\" title=\"EM 140 DG Macro Flash\" target=\"_blank\">Sigma EM 140 DG Macro Flash<\/a> and a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenkotokinausa.com\/products\/kenko\/slrc-04.html\" title=\"Kenko Extension Tubes for Nikon\" target=\"_blank\">Kenko Extension Tubes for Nikon<\/a> are hopefully going to be a boon to my Macro shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of light required to allow the smallest of apertures to achieve &#8220;large&#8221; Depth of Field (DoF) is always an issue with Macro photography. Without enough light you just can&#8217;t stretch that DoF out to allow more detail. Sometimes that doesn&#8217;t matter so much, depending on composition and subject, but other times I&#8217;m left wanting more! I&#8217;m sure viewers of such work do too. The budget wouldn&#8217;t stretch to the Nikon option currently. This Macro Flash does seem to review reasonably well for the money, and this time of year money&#8217;s tight. Of course the Extension Tubes will offset this because of the reduction of Depth of Field inherent in the &#8220;magnification&#8221; effect of the tubes. Still there are always &#8220;trade offs&#8221; with such enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>So after going out for an early morning shoot, coming back to for second breakfast, slip out to vote, come back and knock off the housework and have a relaxing cup of tea I&#8217;m ready to start tinkering with the new toys. Hopefully I&#8217;ll post some shots later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my newest pieces of gear arrived The Sigma EM 140 DG Macro Flash and a set of Kenko Extension Tubes for Nikon are hopefully going to be a boon to my Macro shooting. The amount of light required to allow the smallest of apertures to achieve &#8220;large&#8221; Depth of Field (DoF) is always an&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=271\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-goals","category-macro","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}