{"id":511,"date":"2012-12-20T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/511-366-days-of-2012-day-355-forty-percent-off-everything.html"},"modified":"2012-12-20T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:59:00","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-355-forty-percent-off-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/511-366-days-of-2012-day-355-forty-percent-off-everything.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 355 &#8211; Forty Percent Off Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:850 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/355-_MG_9881_2_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nChristmas retail mayhem takes a break in the small hours.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nShopping at midnight is not for everyone but if you detest crowds the 24hour opening times are a blessing. I shudder imagining being in this scene a few hours earlier when the walkways would have been packed shoulder to shoulder.<br \/>\nEasy parking, no waiting queues, forty percent off everything including crowds! I like it! <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe last time I took photographs in a shopping centre I was politely but firmly asked to put my camera away or I would be escorted from the premises. This time I played it a little low key and looked for places to place my camera without a tripod. Retail Christmas is garish already so I don&#8217;t mind extending the theme with a hdr rendering to match.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI wanted great depth of field for this image so I set the lens to f\/16, made a guess where the hyper-focal distance would be for this lens\/zoom\/fstop combination. I then pointed the lens at an object at that distance and performed an initial pre-focus in AF mode. Once I had pre-focused the lens I set it back to MF mode, placed the camera into position and took three frames. In this way I kept my actions as &#8216;non-photographer&#8217; as possible and succeeded in bringing both the shopping and photographs home.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 355 &#8211; Forty Percent Off Everything&#8217;. 0.4s f\/16 ISO160 17mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Christmas retail mayhem takes a break in the small hours. Shopping at midnight is not for everyone but if you detest crowds the 24hour opening times are a blessing. I shudder imagining being in this scene a few hours earlier when the walkways would have been packed shoulder to shoulder. Easy &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 355 &#8211; Forty Percent Off Everything\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/511-366-days-of-2012-day-355-forty-percent-off-everything.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 355 &#8211; Forty Percent Off Everything\">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-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}