{"id":225,"date":"2012-03-13T00:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/225-366-days-of-2012-day-73-days-end.html"},"modified":"2012-03-13T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:18:21","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-73-days-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/225-366-days-of-2012-day-73-days-end.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 73 &#8211; Day&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:476 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_9064.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPoint your camera directly at the sun and take a photo. Include some interesting subject matter if you like. Perhaps try for a nice silhouette.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf there are any quirks in your optics that you have not yet discovered, you will now.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI took a number of shots at ground level looking up through the grass into the sun. Of course I did not look directly at the sun, I just held the camera and pressed the shutter. The previews looked fine on the camera but when I got to the big screen I had hazy white dots, ghostly arcs and a funny rainbow arc out near the periphery that might have circled the entire image if it were not for the dark ground.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo now my next project will be to work out what causes these effects and what I can do to either get rid of them or make them work for me in future shots like these.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 73 &#8211; Day&#8217;s End&#8217;. 1\/400 sec at 24mm f\/22, ISO 400<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point your camera directly at the sun and take a photo. Include some interesting subject matter if you like. Perhaps try for a nice silhouette. If there are any quirks in your optics that you have not yet discovered, you will now. I took a number of shots at ground level looking up through the &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 73 &#8211; Day&#8217;s End\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/225-366-days-of-2012-day-73-days-end.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 73 &#8211; Day&#8217;s End\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}