{"id":1820,"date":"2011-07-15T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-07-15\/1820"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:30:04","slug":"gion-matsuri-festival-ruining-every-photo-before-its-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-07-15\/1820","title":{"rendered":"Gion Matsuri Festival: Ruining Every Photo Before It&#8217;s Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1820'>\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=\"085808\" href='\/i\/JF7_085808.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_085808_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Young Photographer Gion Matsuri festival, Kyoto Japan -- Gion Matsuri (\u7947\u5712\u796d) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i085808\"\ntitle=\"Young Photographer Gion Matsuri festival, Kyoto Japan -- Gion Matsuri (\u7947\u5712\u796d) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 + 1.4X TC @ 420mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>400 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_085808.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_085808.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Young Photographer<\/span>\n<br\/>Gion Matsuri festival, Kyoto Japan\n<\/div>\n\n<p>So I went out to the second (of three) Gion Festival\nfestival-in-the-streets evenings as <a\nhref='\/blog\/2011-07-14\/1819'><span class='nobr'>I did<\/span> yesterday<\/a>, but this\ntime <span class='nobr'>I neglected<\/span> to adjust the camera settings, and <span class='nobr'>I left<\/span> them at what\nAnthony uses for his stop-motion Lego play. That means that instead of <a\nhref='\/blog\/2007-10-08\/598'>shooting raw<\/a> as <span class='nobr'>I normally<\/span>\ndo, which allows for the highest quality results, <span class='nobr'>I ended<\/span> up shooting in\nthe smallest, lowest-quality JPEGs the camera could do. What <span class='nobr'>a huge<\/span>\nmistake.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's all the more depressing because <span class='nobr'>I must<\/span> have given my contact info\nto at least <span class='nobr'>a dozen<\/span> people, to contact me for copies of the photos <span class='nobr'>I took<\/span>\nof them or their group. History has shown that most won't bother (even\nthough they saw the result on the back of the camera and to <span class='nobr'>a person<\/span> were\nstunned at the result), but now <span class='nobr'>I worry<\/span> that I'll have anything worth\nsending.<\/p>\n\n<p>I had a great time chatting with <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of fun people (<a\nhref='\/blog\/2011-05-11\/1769'>the lens<\/a> is <span class='nobr'>a great<\/span> ice\nbreaker), but this really ruins the evening for me. <span class='nobr'>I'm too depressed<\/span> to\neven look at the pictures beyond the first few, of which one is shown\nabove. <span class='nobr'>I probably<\/span> should have asked that young man for advice. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2011-07-16\/1821' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went out to the second (of three) Gion Festival festival-in-the-streets evenings as I did yesterday, but this time I neglected to adjust the camera settings, and I left them at what Anthony uses for his stop-motion Lego play. That means that instead of shooting raw as I normally do, which allows for the highest quality results, I ended up shooting in the smallest, lowest-quality JPEGs the camera could do. What a huge mistake.<\/p> <p>It's all the more depressing because I must have given my contact info to at least a dozen people, to contact me for copies of [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}