{"id":23713,"date":"2022-07-23T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23713"},"modified":"2022-07-23T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T04:02:08","slug":"more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"more than one way to skin a cat &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23714\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/photos-of-Dudes22-Popular-Mechanics-May-1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23714\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/photos-of-Dudes22-Popular-Mechanics-May-1939-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">how to capture a tenderfoot on a wild horse &#8211; 1939 style<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230;. or ride a frisky horse. The May, 1939 article from Popular Mechanics shows how a stuffed horse could simulate a bucking broncho in a photo taken for the folks back home!<\/p>\n<p>Notice how the professional photographer uses a view camera and tripod to capture the event. Typical media of the day would be a trifle slow, even in bright sunlight. The snappers of today with their digital cameras or smart phones have super sensitive sensors (and possibly optical stabilizers) and no need for a tripod &#8211; even indoors in the daytime.<\/p>\n<p>A nod to my good friend and erstwhile seeker of photo history as recorded in magazines nearly a \u00a0century ago, George Dunbar, for sharing this clever &#8216;studio prop&#8217; to dazzle the home-bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230;. or ride a frisky horse. The May, 1939 article from Popular Mechanics shows how a stuffed horse could simulate a bucking broncho in a photo taken for the folks back home! Notice how the professional photographer uses a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-cat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4141,398,4140,5,4142,609],"class_list":["post-23713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-broncho","tag-camera","tag-dude-ranch","tag-photographer","tag-studio-prop","tag-view-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23717,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions\/23717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}