{"id":39,"date":"2013-06-10T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/?p=39"},"modified":"2014-03-07T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:55:31","slug":"indiana-limestone-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/stone-facts\/2013\/indiana-limestone-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Limestone Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could never photograph stone up close and get a good result. Even with a macro lenses and good lighting, I couldn\u2019t get the sharpness and depth of field that I wanted. Fortunately, there are much better photographer than me and I recently gave a set of stone samples to one such photographer. A well-equipped modern photographer can shoot many images of the same subject from very slightly different distances and then combine the images on a computer by a process called \u201cfocus stacking\u201d . The results are sharp, clear, and beautiful.<\/p>\n

The image below shows a closeup of a sample of Indiana Limestone. Click on the image for a full-screen view.<\/p>\n

\"Indiana-Limestone-magnifier\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Indiana Limestone is perhaps the mostly widely used stone in the US. It was chosen for the National Cathedral,<\/a> the Empire State Building<\/a>, the Biltmore Castle<\/a>, and countless Federal buildings and post offices from coast to coast. What you see is a hash of ooids<\/a> and fossil fragments.<\/p>\n

This texture is the reason that the Indiana Limestone can be cut and carved into nearly any shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could never photograph stone up close and get a good result. Even with a macro lenses and good lighting, I couldn\u2019t get the sharpness…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stone-facts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Indiana-Limestone-magnifier.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.selectstone.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}