{"id":9287,"date":"2023-10-28T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T01:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2023-10-28T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T01:55:49","slug":"i-took-my-author-photo-in-my-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/i-took-my-author-photo-in-my-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"I took my author photo in my bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, this is what’s going in the back of the Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy<\/strong><\/em> books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, I took my author photo in my bathroom! With my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s in black and white in the books (unless a reader reads on a tablet with colour), and it looks fine. Good enough! Until I can set up the “big camera” and take proper self-author photos for my new website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my website is still old, and when I imported the picture into the new home page, it looked weird. It was suddenly obvious that’s a shower curtain behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of YouTube tutorials, and this is what I’m hoping to pull onto the home page instead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not bad for my first time using Affinity Photo. I like the blue behind me. I managed to accidentally cast a shadow. A splash of over-exposure and it’s not so obvious that I’m, ahem, mature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like my Cruella tinsels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wish me luck getting the new website pages built!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, this is what’s going in the back of the Love & Other Calamities Romantic Comedy books: Yeah, I took my author photo in my bathroom! With my phone. It’s in black and white in the books (unless a reader reads on a tablet with colour), and it looks fine. Good enough! Until I can… Continue reading I took my author photo in my bathroom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,45,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-journeys","category-sindie-publishing","category-web-design","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9291,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}