{"id":28589,"date":"2024-04-29T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28589"},"modified":"2024-04-29T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:41:21","slug":"its-a-selfie-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/its-a-selfie-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"its a selfie, silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28590\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Photography-Then-vs-Now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28590\" class=\"wp-image-28590 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Photography-Then-vs-Now-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">spoofing the modern selfie craze<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My good friend George Dunbar came across this photo of two girls at an exhibition. They were hamming it up with a landline handset. The photo is remarkably similar to a modern &#8216;selfie&#8217; taken with a Smartphone&#8217;s front facing camera.<\/p>\n<p>The title &#8220;The early days of selfies&#8221; is a bit of a misnomer since a mirror was used for such <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selfie\">self portraits<\/a> since the early days of photography (1839). The above link is to a Wikipedia article on the topic of self portraits.<\/p>\n<p>A big thanks goes to George for this clever photo which he shared with us. Being a bit small, it was upscaled \u00a0with Topaz Photo AI 2 before adjusting the size in Affinity Photo.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/auction-may-5th-2024\/\">our spring auction is May 5th<\/a>. Drop by and bid &#8211; you may find a photo or a piece of equipment suitable for your collection or user gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My good friend George Dunbar came across this photo of two girls at an exhibition. They were hamming it up with a landline handset. The photo is remarkably similar to a modern &#8216;selfie&#8217; taken with a Smartphone&#8217;s front facing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/its-a-selfie-silly\/\">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":[399,105,14,4593],"class_list":["post-28589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-auction","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-photo-photograph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589","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=28589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28599,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28589\/revisions\/28599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}