{"id":230,"date":"2011-04-20T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-04-20T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:50:47","slug":"auspicious-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/auspicious-day","title":{"rendered":"Auspicious Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shot I did quite some time back during a wedding shoot. The bride and groom was resting at his parent&#8217;s house after the morning ceremonies. I was half-resting and half looking for a special moment to shoot when I came across this old school Chinese calendar.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of those with a page for each day, and Sundays were in red. The wedding day was on a Sunday and red also happen to be an auspicious colour for the Chinese. There was a gentle breeze blowing which occasionally flips the page up.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a shot which showed the auspiciousness of the day, and the red page of the calendar is a great visual for this. I also wanted to juxtapose the bridge and groom (particularly the bride) in the background to tell the viewer that there was a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>I set the Tokina AF 28-70mm f\/2.6-2.8 to the largest aperture so I&#8217;ll get the calendar as a nice foreground with the blurred bride and groom in the background adding to the story. Took a couple of shots and this turned out to be the better one. It remained one of my favourite wedding photos that I&#8217;ve taken.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5302\/5637242665_ba0982d924_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auspicious Day. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shot I did quite some time back during a wedding shoot. The bride and groom was resting at his parent&#8217;s house after the morning ceremonies. I was half-resting and half looking for a special moment to shoot when I came across this old school Chinese calendar. It was one of those with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/auspicious-day\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Auspicious Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[118,120,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}