{"id":1255,"date":"2009-01-17T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2009-01-17T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T16:21:10","slug":"flash_mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Flash mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6874.JPG\" alt=\"flash mod\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI went to our local cooking supply store for equipment to make a modification for a photographic flash.  It was not as esoteric as you were probably thinking.  Just a couple hundred black straws.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6870.JPG\" alt=\"flash mod before\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nYou see a flash creates a lot of spread out light.  Even when you manually zoom the flash as narrow as it will go (to 105mm).\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I6872.JPG\" alt=\"flash mod after\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHowever, if you put a lot of long straws in between the flash an your subject, those straws act as a limiting element.  You switch from a wide rectangle to a small circle.  Neat, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to our local cooking supply store for equipment to make a modification for a photographic flash. It was not as esoteric as you were probably thinking. Just a couple hundred black straws. You see a flash creates a lot of spread out light. Even when you manually zoom the flash as narrow as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-strobist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}