{"id":1551,"date":"2010-06-25T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-06-25\/1551"},"modified":"2010-06-25T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T15:47:43","slug":"back-in-the-saddle-with-a-wonderful-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-06-25\/1551","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Saddle With a Wonderful Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1551'>\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<style type=\"text\/css\">\nspan.num { color : white }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033765\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033765.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033765_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Ridgeline By the Numbers 13,781 meters away 8,000 ISO sensitivity 21 minutes after sunset 500 mm focal length 33,765 th photo taken with my D700 -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033765\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Ridgeline By the Numbers 13,781 meters away 8,000 ISO sensitivity 21 minutes after sunset 500 mm focal length 33,765 th photo taken with my D700 -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Sigma &#8220;Bigma&#8221; 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/8, ISO 8000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033765.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033765.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Ridgeline By the Numbers<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='num'>13,781<\/span> meters away\n<br\/><span class='num'>8,000<\/span> ISO sensitivity\n<br\/><span class='num'>21<\/span> minutes after sunset\n<br\/><span class='num'>500<\/span> mm focal length\n<br\/><span class='num'>33,765<\/span>th photo taken with my D700\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In the large version, you can see individual branches on the trees. <span class='nobr'>Not too bad<\/span> for almost 14km away, handheld.<\/p>\n\n<p>I was gratified not only to be able to pick up the camera today, but to\nactually remember how to use it. Kyoto had <span class='nobr'>a mild<\/span> version this evening of the\nsunset described in my November 2008 post &#8220;<a class='pt'\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-11-11\/990\">Today's Sunset: the Deepest,\nTruest Orange <span class='nobr'>I Have<\/span> Ever Seen<\/a>&#8221;. Like then, <span class='nobr'>I was at<\/span> my condo and\njust ran up to the top floor to catch the view.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name=\"033727\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033727.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033727_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Early View 9 minutes after sunset -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033727\"\ntitle=\"Early View 9 minutes after sunset -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/9, ISO 1400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033727.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033727.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Early View<\/span>\n<br\/>9 minutes after sunset\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The picture above represents the true experience of what you'd see at\nthat time, but to get the photo to that point <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> to do <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of\nprocessing in Lightroom to make the buildings less dark and the sky less\nyellow (there wasn't the slightest trace of yellow, but it comes across as\nyellow in the brighter areas due to <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-08-06\/901\">limitations with camera sensor\ntechnology<\/a> that <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> have enough skill to work around).<\/p>\n\n<p>The color in the first picture, taken 12 minutes later, is accurate, but\nit gives <span class='nobr'>a somewhat<\/span> false impression of the overall scene because by the\ntime the color had deepened to that level, it had faded from most of the\nsky, but you can't see that because <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-10-14\/606\">it's not in frame<\/a>. (The\nsunset from <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of years ago was that deep even when the whole sky was\nthat color, so it was much better, but today's sunset was the best since\nthen.)<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033737\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033737.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033737_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Less Post Processing Less Realistic ( More Beautiful ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033737\"\ntitle=\"Less Post Processing Less Realistic ( More Beautiful ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Sigma &#8220;Bigma&#8221; 50-500mm OS @ 50 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033737.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033737.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Less Post Processing<\/span>\n<br\/>Less Realistic\n<br\/>( More Beautiful )\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033753\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033753.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033753_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033753\"\ntitle=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Sigma &#8220;Bigma&#8221; 50-500mm OS @ 210 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/6, ISO 8000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033753.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033753.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name=\"033751\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033751.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033751_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Trapped -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033751\"\ntitle=\"Trapped -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Sigma &#8220;Bigma&#8221; 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 8000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033751.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033751.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Trapped<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The gargoyles or whatever line the roof of the private Chinese museum next door would have been great in silhouette if\nit weren't for the netting they have over the whole thing (to catch, <span class='nobr'>I would<\/span> think, any part of the aging roof that might fall,\nbefore it lands on <span class='nobr'>a pedestrian<\/span>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033757\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033757.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033757_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Inverse Waves sunlight skips off the bottom edges of cloud ridges -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033757\"\ntitle=\"Inverse Waves sunlight skips off the bottom edges of cloud ridges -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Sigma &#8220;Bigma&#8221; 50-500mm OS @ 95 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5, ISO 5000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033757.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_033757.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Inverse Waves<\/span>\n<br\/>sunlight skips off the bottom edges of cloud ridges\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: Cool, <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-09-23\/1319\">Nils<\/a> has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n1FR0ca8JU4\">short video of the sunset<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the large version, you can see individual branches on the trees. Not too bad for almost 14km away, handheld.<\/p> <p>I was gratified not only to be able to pick up the camera today, but to actually remember how to use it. Kyoto had a mild version this evening of the sunset described in my November 2008 post \"Today's Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen\". Like then, I was at my condo and just ran up to the top floor to catch the view.<\/p> <p>The picture above represents the true experience of what you'd see at that [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}