{"id":26147,"date":"2023-06-15T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26147"},"modified":"2023-06-15T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T04:46:08","slug":"some-thoughts-on-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/some-thoughts-on-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"some thoughts on Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26148\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26148\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Eve-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00c9va Gauthier, 1906 by Wm Topley<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0When you look carefully at the portrait of \u00c9va Gauthier, the young patron of M Topley appears to be a three dimensional study with her features carefully modelled.<\/p>\n<p>This is accomplished by careful use of the lighting. Francois Deslauriers wrote a precise and timely article for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thediscoverblog.com\/\">LAC blog<\/a> titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thediscoverblog.com\/2021\/06\/17\/lights-on-portrait-photography\/\">Lights on portrait photography<\/a>&#8220;. Whether you are an experienced photographer, an amateur, or simply collect old photographs, this short article is well worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>Collectors know <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_James_Topley\">Topley<\/a> at one time was associated with Notman in Montreal before running a studio in Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0When you look carefully at the portrait of \u00c9va Gauthier, the young patron of M Topley appears to be a three dimensional study with her features carefully modelled. This is accomplished by careful use of the lighting. Francois Deslauriers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/some-thoughts-on-portraits\/\">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":[124,138,205,2563,348,4360],"class_list":["post-26147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-montreal","tag-notman","tag-ottawa","tag-portraiture","tag-studio","tag-topley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147","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=26147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26161,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26147\/revisions\/26161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}