{"id":1537,"date":"2009-01-20T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randompanderings.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-01-20T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:43:47","slug":"award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/award\/","title":{"rendered":"Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanmcfoto.com\/randompanderings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/6215e380-5788-4285-bc90-f13c490811f7.jpg\" alt=\"6215E380-5788-4285-BC90-F13C490811F7.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/div>\n<p>While I did get an inkling last night on the SWPP forum, I got a call from Jon Jenkins this morning informing me that I had won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpp.co.uk\/convention\/photographic_competition_08\/family_portrait_international.htm\">SWPP Family Portraiture and Groups award<\/a>. Jon had volunteered to collect for me if I won anything (just in case-I&#8217;ve had a few golds during the year after all!). He&#8217;d forgotten about it until he heard my name called, and then his for collecting it! I&#8217;d love to have been there, but weekends are very busy at the moment. I&#8217;ll make time to go next year though, just for the networking!<\/p>\n<p>Now that I know what the award is for, let me talk about the shot. This is a shot of local band Disconnect 4 (you can check them out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/disconnect4\">MySpace<\/a>). Martin from Bar No. 8 kindly allowed us to shoot around the bar one evening. We did a number of different setups, but I really like this one because of the expressions. Bands against a wall are a bit cliched and I usually avoid it, but this just worked for me. This is a Strobist style shot, with a single shoot thru umbrella, from over my head to give some &#8216;butterfly light&#8217;. Nikon SB28, probably at 1\/2 power, triggered with Skyports. Processing was done in Lightroom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,94,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-shoot-2","category-strobist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanmcfoto.com\/smcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}