{"id":1359,"date":"2009-11-15T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-11-15\/1359"},"modified":"2009-11-15T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T09:05:05","slug":"purple-glowing-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-11-15\/1359","title":{"rendered":"Purple Glowing Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1359'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"025886\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_025886.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_025886_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Positively Glowing -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i025886\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Positively Glowing -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f\/2 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1600 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_025886.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_025886.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Positively Glowing<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A wall near where Anthony has swimming lessons is covered with these\npurplish flowers. Again, my D700 seems to want to overexpose everything,\nand <span class='nobr'>I ended<\/span> up using -2&frac12;EV exposure compensation to stop the petals\nfrom blowing out. <span class='nobr'>One side effect<\/span> of the relative underexposure is that it makes the scene\nlook dark (it was in fairly bright shade), but <span class='nobr'>I didn't<\/span> want the rich colors\nto be lost (as happened in <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-08-05\/899\">this flower<\/a>,\ndue to an effect described in &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-08-06\/901\"><i>Why Does &#8220;Brightness&#8221; Wash Colors to White?<\/i><\/a>&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n<p>Another effect of the underexposure is that the central, lighter\nportions of the petals seem much brighter, relatively speaking, than they\nreally were, giving <span class='nobr'>a pleasant<\/span> sense of glowing from within, or, perhaps, from the stamens.<\/p>\n\n<p class='subtle'>( And is it just me, or do others think that &#8220;stamen&#8221;\nsounds like it should be both the singular and the plural? )<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wall near where Anthony has swimming lessons is covered with these purplish flowers. Again, my D700 seems to want to overexpose everything, and I ended up using -2&frac12;EV exposure compensation to stop the petals from blowing out. One side effect of the relative underexposure is that it makes the scene look dark (it was in fairly bright shade), but I didn't want the rich colors to be lost (as happened in this flower, due to an effect described in \"Why Does \"Brightness\" Wash Colors to White?\").<\/p> <p>Another effect of the underexposure is that the central, lighter portions of the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}