{"id":20234,"date":"2014-05-09T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=20234"},"modified":"2017-10-23T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:24:31","slug":"studio-photography-never-shoot-320-iso-f5-6-white-seamless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/studio-photography-never-shoot-320-iso-f5-6-white-seamless\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio photography: Never shoot at 320 ISO @ f\/5.6 with white seamless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Never shoot at 320 ISO @ f\/5.6 with\u00a0white seamless<\/span><\/h1>\n

… \u00a0because Amazon’s patent on how to shoot against a white background,\u00a0<\/span>
(with camera settings given as “about 320 ISO” and “about f\/5.6” )\u00a0<\/span>
has been granted to them by the US Patents office<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I know, this makes no sense.\u00a0<\/span>One of the oldest studio photography techniques – shooting against a white backdrop – has been patented by Amazon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Udi Tirosh at DIY photo reported on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So I guess the easiest way to circumvent this, (aside from easily proving prior use), would be to shoot at … let’s say 100 ISO @ f\/8 in the studio?
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Oh, perhaps not:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be noted that angles, dimensions, distances, settings, parameters, and other numerical data may or may not be expressed herein in a range format. It is to be understood that the numerical data is presented herein and used for convenience and brevity, and thus, should be interpreted in a flexible manner to include not only the numerical values explicitly recited as the only workable parameters, but also to include all the individual numerical values that can be employed in a studio arrangement 100 to achieve the desired effect discussed herein.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I wonder if this will all fall apart when the first photographer sued by Amazon simply shows prior use?<\/p>\n

What is your take on this ridiculousness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Never shoot at 320 ISO @ f\/5.6 with\u00a0white seamless … \u00a0because Amazon’s patent on how to shoot against a white background,\u00a0(with camera settings given as “about 320 ISO” and “about f\/5.6” )\u00a0has been granted to them by the US Patents office.\u00a0 Yes, I know, this makes no sense.\u00a0One of the oldest studio photography techniques Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42303,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions\/42303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20234"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}