{"id":297,"date":"2009-05-14T00:37:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/?p=297"},"modified":"2009-05-14T00:37:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T05:37:13","slug":"a-little-nighttime-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/2009\/05\/14\/a-little-nighttime-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"A little nighttime photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from the gas station after work, I saw some people launching some small fireworks down on the shore of the river, so I busted out the camera.  Of course, as it wont to happen with me, I&#8217;m unable to provide any verifiable evidence that I did, in fact, see fireworks, a disbelief I&#8217;ve been cursed with by a good friend(and former roommate).  However, it wasn&#8217;t a total loss as I got some shots that I liked (as always, clickthrough on each for full sizes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>, assuming you&#8217;ve done the smart thing and signed up for a free\/pro account on the site, which you should):<\/p>\n<p>On the bridge, looking down the river, completely zoomed out:<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pi8you\/3529651863\/\" title=\"P1120711 by pi8you, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2096\/3529651863_53dbd437ed_b.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"P1120711\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And zoomed in on a lone highrise on the horizon and the Ford Parkway Bridge, which reflects off the river in spectacular fashion:<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pi8you\/3530468090\/\" title=\"P1120712 by pi8you, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2267\/3530468090_e91617876d_b.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"P1120712\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Then a little experimentation, a 15s exposure with the camera sitting over Mississppi River Blvd on the near end of the bridge, this is the jpg the camera created alongside the RAW:<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pi8you\/3530469488\/\" title=\"P1120717 by pi8you, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3542\/3530469488_0403530c90_b.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"P1120717\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And this is what I ended up with after a little bit of processing:<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pi8you\/3529658605\/\" title=\"P1120717 Processed by pi8you, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3312\/3529658605_81251bde06_b.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"P1120717 Processed\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It also captures some flecks of a dying firework, but hardly enough to count. 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Of course, as it wont to happen with me, I&#8217;m unable to provide any verifiable evidence that I did, in fact, see fireworks, a disbelief I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003],"tags":[1066,1063,1062,1065,1388,1064],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-lake-st-bridge","tag-minneapolis","tag-mississippi-river","tag-night","tag-photography","tag-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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