{"id":2346,"date":"2013-11-29T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-11-29\/2346"},"modified":"2013-11-29T19:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T10:31:02","slug":"not-a-good-day-for-photography-in-the-friedl-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-11-29\/2346","title":{"rendered":"Not a Good Day for Photography in the Friedl Household"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I once complained that I had ruined every photo before I even<\/span> took it<\/a> by accidentally leaving\nthe camera in low-quality JPEG mode (instead of raw mode<\/a>, which gives\nmuch latitude in recovering<\/a> from exposure mistakes).<\/p>\n\n

Today I did myself one better.<\/p>\n\n

After driving 2½ hours last night to a hotel<\/span> near a particular<\/span>\nspot where I wanted<\/span> to make a sunrise<\/span> photo with the family, we got up at\n5:15 and by 6am we had parked and were ready for the 30-minute hike to the\nlocation, when I took<\/span> my first shot of the day, of a picturesque<\/span> ridgeline\nwith a dull<\/span> warm 40-minutes-before-sunrise light beyond.<\/p>\n\n

The photo that popped up on the back of the camera was stunning: the sky\nthat seemed almost black in person was now in the photo a deep<\/span> rich blue at\nthe ridge with a lovely<\/span> gradient to black at top. The day was<\/span> starting off\nexceptionally well, except....<\/p>\n\n

... except that unfortunately, I always<\/span> have my cameras set to\nnot<\/i> show each photo on the back of the camera immediately after\ncapture (because it wastes battery), so the photo suddenly popping up meant\nonly one thing: the camera was in “<\/span>demo mode”<\/span> like it would be at the\nstore, because I'd forgotten to put in a memory<\/span> card. Doh!<\/p>\n\n\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n\n

The camera and lenses all went back into the car, and we made the hike\nsans camera. (Fumie and I both<\/span> had iPhones with full batteries, but both\ndied from lack of battery within 10 minutes after reaching the destination. I speculated<\/span> at the time that the battery might have been consumed faster\nbecause of the cold, but I didn't<\/span> really believe it because it wasn't\nthat<\/i> cold... just a touch<\/span> below freezing... but both batteries\nsuddenly returned to half full when we got them back to the warm car.)<\/p>\n\n

I guess it just wasn't my day for photography.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once complained that I had ruined every photo before I even took it by accidentally leaving the camera in low-quality JPEG mode (instead of raw mode, which gives much latitude in recovering from exposure mistakes).<\/p>

Today I did myself one better.<\/p>

After driving 2½ hours last night to a hotel near a particular spot where I wanted to make a sunrise photo with the family, we got up at 5:15 and by 6am we had parked and were ready for the 30-minute hike to the location, when I took my first shot of the day, of a picturesque ridgeline [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346"}],"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=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}