{"id":121,"date":"2012-10-07T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-11-15T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:24:33","slug":"photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Up Close and Personal<\/p><\/div>\n

Dating myself, the first camera I can remember taking photos with, was a Brownie Holiday Camera.\u00a0 I think that actually belonged to my brother.\u00a0 Imagine my excitement on a Christmas morning, opening up a brand new Kodak Brownie Starmite (introduced in 1960).\u00a0 I took photos of the local squirrels, neighbor’s cat or anything else that would sit still.\u00a0 Then it was a question of saving up enough allowance to have the photos printed.\u00a0 My parents recognized that taking photos was more than a passing whim.\u00a0 A wildlife photographer colleague of my father’s would say the secret to good photos was to “take a lot and make the subject big”.\u00a0 I’ve never forgotten that.\u00a0 Christmas of 1973, I received my first “real” camera – a Canon AE-1 SLR.\u00a0 I continued to shoot with that camera for 30+ years.\u00a0 My first exposure to the digital world was in 2002 on a live-aboard scuba diving trip.\u00a0 The instant gratification of knowing if an image was captured, along with the ability to delete many “fish butt pictures” became very appealing.\u00a0 But I wasn’t really quite sure if I wanted to go digital.\u00a0 Finally, in 2004, I purchased my first digital camera – a Canon Powershot A 70 complete with underwater housing for diving.\u00a0 Slick.\u00a0 I still took all of my above water photos with my AE-1 (had a great 70-210 telephoto lens).\u00a0 But that digital world was really peaking my interest.\u00a0 In 2006, I took the plunge and invested in a DSLR, a Canon XTi along with a 70-300 IS telephoto lens and never looked back.\u00a0 Funny how I could use the same film camera for over 30 years, but I’ve already upgraded camera and lenses since 2006.\u00a0 My most recent shots are taken with a Canon 7D Mark II and Canon lenses 24-105 and 100-400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dating myself, the first camera I can remember taking photos with, was a Brownie Holiday Camera.\u00a0 I think that actually belonged to my brother.\u00a0 Imagine my excitement on a Christmas morning, opening up a brand new Kodak Brownie Starmite (introduced in 1960).\u00a0 I took photos of the local squirrels, neighbor’s cat or anything else that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographyscrapbooking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenajenkinshoffmeyer.com\/laurena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}