{"id":2048,"date":"2014-11-11T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:46:52","slug":"tuesday-11-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/11\/tuesday-11-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 11 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:46 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> It&#8217;s Veterans Day, which is also my mother&#8217;s birthday. She was born 11 November 1918, the day WWI ended, and would have been 96 years old today.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I need to get a tabletop photography area set up downstairs so that I can shoot a bunch of images for the prepping book. I&#8217;m going to use white background paper with two lights on the front corners of the work surface, each angled in at 45\u00b0 and angled down at 45\u00b0. Because I may be using small apertures and correspondingly long exposures, I&#8217;m going to hang my Colt 1911 Combat Commander as a weight on the center column of the tripod. The reason I&#8217;m being so specific is that I intend to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20140507\/04102327144\/us-patent-office-grants-photography-against-white-background-patent-to-amazon.shtml\">file for a patent<\/a> on this method. I&#8217;m going to call it the 45\/45\/45 method. And if Amazon comes after me, I intend to re-purpose one of those 45&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:46 &#8211; It&#8217;s Veterans Day, which is also my mother&#8217;s birthday. She was born 11 November 1918, the day WWI ended, and would have been 96 years old today.\n<\/p>\n<p>I need to get a tabletop photography area set up downstairs so that I can shoot a bunch of images for the prepping book. I&#8217;m going to use white background paper with two lights on the front corners of the work surface, each angled in at 45\u00b0 and angled down at 45\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/11\/tuesday-11-november-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 11 November 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-prepping","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}