{"id":228,"date":"2015-03-13T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-03-08T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:23:28","slug":"portrait-photography-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/portrait-photography-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Photography Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/composite-background-portrait.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-229 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/composite-background-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Composite Portrait Photography\" width=\"834\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/composite-background-portrait.jpg 834w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/composite-background-portrait-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/composite-background-portrait-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This portrait was shot on a grey background on location. The simple staging of a coffee table gave nice foreground texture. \u00a0The light source was a Paul Buff 22 inch beauty dish with a grid. \u00a0This bounce flash light modifier is beautifully flattering to faces.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer&#8217;s library of backgrounds\u00a0is\u00a0a collection of textured surfaces such as tin siding, stucco walls, weather beaten exterior house walls, stone surfaces, etc. \u00a0These he shoots specifically for this purpose of blending and layering to build up an artistic backdrop for a studio portrait. \u00a0The manipulating of these backgrounds takes place in Photoshop to his creative eye. This background was a composite of 2 backgrounds over the\u00a0grey studio backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/portrait-backgrounds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> on our website about backgrounds for portraits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This portrait was shot on a grey background on location. The simple staging of a coffee table gave nice foreground texture. \u00a0The light source was a Paul Buff 22 inch beauty dish with a grid. \u00a0This bounce flash light modifier &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/portrait-photography-composite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,32,109,1,15,33,31],"tags":[118,168],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composite-photography","category-flash-photography","category-light-modifiers","category-photography","category-portrait","category-portrait-backgrounds","category-studio-portait","tag-composite-photography","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cxVk-3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/douglassimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}