{"id":13055,"date":"2024-08-26T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=13055"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:17:34","slug":"marians-roots-and-rambles-how-to-take-better-gravestone-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2024\/marians-roots-and-rambles-how-to-take-better-gravestone-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Marian&#8217;s Roots and Rambles: How To Take Better Gravestone Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootsandrambles.blogspot.ca\/2011\/11\/how-to-take-better-gravestone-photos.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ontariofuturist.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GregStewart.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I soon learned through online blogs (Strobist) how to use a flash off camera for more pleasing light.\u00a0 There are different methods of triggering a flash off camera, but the one I chose for the Nikon D40 was a cheap wireless trigger purchased through Cowboy Studio on Ebay.\u00a0 This includes a wireless trigger to mount on the hot shoe of the camera, and a wireless receiver to mount to the flash.\u00a0 I use a Nikon SB600 speedlight with this camera.\u00a0 This flash, and others are capable of being used on a manual setting so you can power down the output of light. The gravestone on the left highlighted by flash With this new capability I returned to many of the gravesites and photographed the hard to read stones.\u00a0 With the flash on a light stand I adjust the flash output to 1\/8th to 1\/16th power, and place it to the side of the stone a few feet away.\u00a0 Lighting the stone from the side causes shadows on the engraving enabling you to very clearly read the inscription.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rootsandrambles.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/how-to-take-better-gravestone-photos.html\">Marian&#8217;s Roots and Rambles: How To Take Better Gravestone Photos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2024\/marians-roots-and-rambles-how-to-take-better-gravestone-photos\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Marian&#8217;s Roots and Rambles: How To Take Better Gravestone Photos\"><p>I soon learned through online blogs (Strobist) how to use a flash off camera for more pleasing light.\u00a0 There are different methods of triggering a flash off camera, but the one I chose for the Nikon D40 was a cheap wireless trigger purchased through Cowboy Studio on Ebay.\u00a0 This includes a wireless trigger to mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76853,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13055\/revisions\/76853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}