{"id":475,"date":"2007-05-29T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-05-29\/475"},"modified":"2007-05-29T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T12:42:07","slug":"actual-cherries-and-long-daytime-exposures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-05-29\/475","title":{"rendered":"Actual Cherries, and Long (Daytime) Exposures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nAn Actual Cherry on a Cherry<\/span> Tree<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

For some reason I thought that the cherry trees in Japan generally bore\nno fruit, so it was with some surprise that a cherry<\/span> almost hit me in the\nhead while I was<\/span> standing under a tree<\/span> today. Sure enough, there were a few<\/span>\nvery small cherries (the size of large peas) here and there on the\nbranches. It was windy<\/span> and hard to get a picture<\/span> of anything, but I did<\/span>\ntaste one and it was bitter-sweet, which reminded me much of what the\nnormal wild cherries I had<\/span> as a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

I was under a cherry tree by the river outside my place, trying to replicate the style of this 30-second night exposure from last year:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm @ 18mm — 30 sec, f\/10 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\n

I was trying to replicate it during the day, using a Kenko<\/span> ND400 filter,\nwhich cuts the light by a factor<\/span> of 400 (about 8 2<\/sup>\/3rd stops).\nThis lets you have long exposures, which smooths out the river, hides\nrandom people and cars that pass by, and perhaps (I wondered<\/span>) lended an\ninteresting feel to the results. I was wrong<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 34mm — 41 sec, f\/10, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBland<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The river was indeed smoothed in the 41-second exposure, and the few people and many cars that\nwent by are all but invisible, but ugh, it's a totally<\/span> bland results.<\/p>\n\n

I'd also tried one aimed at the nearby bridge, which is also bland,\nalthough the traffic light showing both red and green at the same time is a\nbit<\/span> freaky.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 26mm — 43 sec, f\/16, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason I thought that the cherry trees in Japan generally bore no fruit, so it was with some surprise that a cherry almost hit me in the head while I was standing under a tree today. Sure enough, there were a few very small cherries (the size of large peas) here and there on the branches. It was windy and hard to get a picture of anything, but I did taste one and it was bitter-sweet, which reminded me much of what the normal wild cherries I had as a kid.<\/p>

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