{"id":5149,"date":"2010-10-28T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/28\/post-8\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T21:45:35","slug":"post-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/28\/post-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Toddler Blogging 102810"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by the anti-flash-photography article<\/a> in the morning’s links dump, this week’s Toddler Blogging offers you a choice of two different pictures. Here’s one with the flash:<\/p>\n

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And one without:<\/p>\n

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(Appa’s been feeling self-conscious about SteelyKid’s growth lately, and asked for a little forced perspective in the second shot. SteelyKid was too busy reading Dr. Seuss to notice.)<\/p>\n

A proper comparison would, of course, use the same composition and framing. No such plan survives contact with a toddler, though– by the time I switched modes on the camera, she had lost interest in the book she was originally reading, and had to be coaxed back to the couch to get anything vaguely comparable.<\/p>\n

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I dunno. I agree that the no-flash one is a little softer, but really, I don’t think it’s dramatically better. A different pose (preferably one without a lamp in the frame) might make more of a difference, but I think they’re both pretty good.<\/p>\n

Of course, there was also some color correction on the no-flash picture, to make the short she’s wearing look the same in both pictures. Here’s what it looked like before I tweaked the levels in GIMP:<\/p>\n

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That’s a much bigger difference, but I wouldn’t say I prefer that look.<\/p>\n

Anyway, opinions from the audience are welcome. Provided, of course, that you acknowledge SteelyKid as the cutest toddler in the universe, as is her due…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by the anti-flash-photography article in the morning’s links dump, this week’s Toddler Blogging offers you a choice of two different pictures. Here’s one with the flash: And one without: (Appa’s been feeling self-conscious about SteelyKid’s growth lately, and asked for a little forced perspective in the second shot. SteelyKid was too busy reading Dr.… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 102810<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}