{"id":3070,"date":"2010-02-27T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T01:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2010-02-27T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:28:49","slug":"panasonic-gh-1-does-dave-hill-grunge-a-tribute-to-my-mate-ian-at-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic GH-1 does Dave Hill grunge – a tribute to my mate Ian at his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mate Ian retired this week, and we are all going to miss him at work.<\/p>\n

He is a gentle, kind giant of a man with a rare intelligence and a wonderful sense of humour who was always dependable and never shirked his responsibilities when things got tough as so many others do.<\/p>\n

He made a tremendous impact on many lives and he will perhaps never quite understand the magnitude of his influence, not only to his clients but on those with whom he worked.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, we thought we would have a bit fun with my Olympus E-510<\/strong> and a couple of flashes and we came up with this image of a mad man in a padded cell:<\/p>\n

\"the.<\/p>\n

This week we had a little informal lunch to celebrate his farewell at work, with his colleagues gathered around the room, I managed to get a few shots after his speech as he gave a farewell wave.<\/p>\n

This image is approximately a 33% crop of a 16:9 aspect ratio image taken with the Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> with Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 lens at f\/2.8 and an Olympus FL-50 flash bounced from the ceiling.<\/p>\n

Although the original<\/a> captured the occasion beautifully, I wanted a more punchy, grunge effect along the lines of a Dave Hill effect, because to me this suited another side of his personality which I love, I hope he likes it:
\n\"Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mate Ian retired this week, and we are all going to miss him at work. He is a gentle, kind giant of a man with a rare intelligence and a wonderful sense of humour who was always dependable and never shirked his responsibilities when things got tough as so many others do. He made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,123,51,134],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-panasonic-gh1","tag-photoshop","tag-portraits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}