{"id":6378,"date":"2014-08-12T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2014-08-16T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T01:24:00","slug":"black-eyed-susans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6378","title":{"rendered":"Black-eyed Susans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6386\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6386\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Black-eyed Susans\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6386\" data-wp-pid=\"6386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140812_090256.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black-eyed Susans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No insects today, just flowers. This is the predominant color in our back yard right now. The great thing about black-eyed Susans (<em>Rudbeckia<\/em> species) is that they bloom late in the summer, when many other plants have finished. They are also prolific and don&#8217;t need any care, to speak of. They happen to be the Maryland state flower, so I guess that makes them particularly appropriate for growing here (in Maryland).<\/p>\n<p>On a technical note, photographing bright, yellow flowers with a digital camera set to automatic white balance it a challenge. Pictures with one predominate color tend to fool the on-board computer into thinking it needs to correct the color balance and yellow seems to be the color that fools it the most. I almost always need to adjust the color of pictures of black-eyed Susans, unless (and I didn&#8217;t do this here) I take a shot of a neutral gray subject first and use that to set the white balance. That&#8217;s worth knowing how to do, if you take a lot of pictures of brightly but monochromaticly colored subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No insects today, just flowers. This is the predominant color in our back yard right now. The great thing about black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia species) is that they bloom late in the summer, when many other plants have finished. They are also prolific and don&#8217;t need any care, to speak of. They happen to be the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}