{"id":153,"date":"2018-01-22T23:24:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesun.curiousmindgarden.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-04-15T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:30:15","slug":"photography-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/photography-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I upgraded from a point and shoot camera to my first DSLR. The camera made its maiden voyage overseas on our trip to Scotland and to justify the expense (and the fancy extra lens I bought myself for Christmas) \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading up on how to take better photos.<\/p>\n<p>Anything I like from 2017 will go up in the Photography portfolio, but pictures I take this year get to count towards my 365 challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95451636@N00\/39626447712\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4762\/39626447712_5b13392087_c.jpg\" alt=\"picnic point root\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an overturned tree stump on the shore. \u00a0I thought it looked better in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>And for something completely different, this is one of my kids falling off a sled<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95451636@N00\/24829003507\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4626\/24829003507_2a1f67535f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Sledding 360\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a newbie at photography so I&#8217;ve been relying a lot on preset functions and full auto mode, but for this one I had to take more control. \u00a0I knew that the camera sensors would try to make the snow gray, so I bumped up the exposure and after a few tries at panning with the motion of the kids and not liking the result, I also set the shutter speed to 1\/1000.<\/p>\n<p>This brings my creative collection up to 6!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I upgraded from a point and shoot camera to my first DSLR. The camera made its maiden voyage overseas on our trip to Scotland and to justify the expense (and the fancy extra lens I bought myself for Christmas) \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading up on how to take better photos. Anything I like from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,10],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","category-photography","tag-365in2018","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/24829003507_2a1f67535f_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A0tE-2t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}