{"id":10408,"date":"2025-11-16T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:39:52","slug":"experimenting-with-a-convex-mirror-and-a-crystal-ball-in-the-conservatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10408","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with a convex mirror and a crystal ball in the conservatory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often like to try out different ways of taking photographs to get something a bit different. Below I show some examples, taken in our small conservatory so as to show some houseplants, using a crystal ball next to a convex mirror:<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is a simple view, with a black background, showing the crystal ball in front of the mirror. Note the background of the houseplants shown in the mirror is slightly out of focus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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This version uses the technique of ‘focus stacking’ with 5 photos to create an image with the houseplants in the background being sharp <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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This version is without focus stacking and has the black background removed so showing the conservatory furniture<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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This has a slightly different viewpoint but has been taken in ‘portrait’ format. You can also see my hands holding the camera!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I think this technique almost works but does need refining…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often like to try out different ways of taking photographs to get something a bit different. Below I show some examples, taken in our small conservatory so as to show some houseplants, using a crystal ball next to a convex mirror: I think this technique almost works but does need refining…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,98,86,117,3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatory","category-crystal-ball","category-focus-stacking","category-house-plants","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10414,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions\/10414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}