{"id":1644,"date":"2010-10-27T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-10-27\/1644"},"modified":"2010-10-27T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:51:08","slug":"well-well-well-a-small-self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-10-27\/1644","title":{"rendered":"Well, Well, Well, a Small Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1644'>\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=\"040947\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_040947.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_040947_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Self Portrait four-second exposure while holding (tightly) the camera against the edge of an old well -- Souken Temple -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i040947\"\ntitle=\"Self Portrait four-second exposure while holding (tightly) the camera against the edge of an old well -- Souken Temple -- 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; 4 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/11, ISO 1250 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_040947.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_040947.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Self Portrait<\/span>\n<br\/>four-second exposure while holding (tightly) the camera against the edge of an old well\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I had a wonderful day today exploring some temples I'd never been to\nright here in Kyoto, about which I'll write more soon (<a href=\"\/blog\/2010-10-29\/1649\">here<\/a>), but <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> I'd\nput this one up today. <span class='nobr'>It's looking<\/span> down <span class='nobr'>a circular<\/span> well at <a href=\"http:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E7%B7%8F%E8%A6%8B%E9%99%A2_%28%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%29\">the Souken'in\nTemple<\/a> (part of the Daitokuji temple complex) whose opening is framed by <span class='nobr'>a\nbox<\/span> made of large stone slabs. <span class='nobr'>It's more than<\/span> 400 years old.<\/p>\n\n<p>Peering in over the edge, it was pitch black with <span class='nobr'>a small<\/span> dab of light\nat the bottom (the reflection of the opening), so <span class='nobr'>I guessed<\/span> the depth, then\nfocused at something about that far away to set the focus, then pointed the\ncamera down and braced it against the edge, and took the four-second exposure.<\/p>\n\n<p>It still came out very dark, so <span class='nobr'>I brightened<\/span> it up in Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n<p>I think I could do a much better photo if <span class='nobr'>I just<\/span> took an extra minute to\nthink about it, but this temple is rarely open to the public, so <span class='nobr'>I doubt<\/span>\nI'll get another chance any time soon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, it's interesting to see down into it, and to wonder how it was\nbuilt all those years ago.<\/p>\n\n<p>I had been out and about with <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-09-22\/1318\">St\u00e9phane Barbery<\/a>, who\nalso <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barbery\/5121950631\/\">did <span class='nobr'>a\nsimilar<\/span> shot<\/a>, though he did <span class='nobr'>a much<\/span> better job technically, and went <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span>\ndirection artistically. <span class='nobr'>I like it<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2010-10-29\/1649\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful day today exploring some temples I'd never been to right here in Kyoto, about which I'll write more soon (here), but I thought I'd put this one up today. It's looking down a circular well at the Souken'in Temple (part of the Daitokuji temple complex) whose opening is framed by a box made of large stone slabs. It's more than 400 years old.<\/p> <p>Peering in over the edge, it was pitch black with a small dab of light at the bottom (the reflection of the opening), so I guessed the depth, then focused at something about [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}