{"id":658,"date":"2007-12-12T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-12\/658"},"modified":"2007-12-12T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:08:15","slug":"orange-sunset-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-12\/658","title":{"rendered":"Orange Sunset in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='041024c' href=\"\/i\/JEF_041024c.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_041024c_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Heading Home four and a half minutes after sunset -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i041024c\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Birds are shown in sillouette against a deeply rich and smooth orange sunset, above Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Heading Home<\/span><br\/>four and a half minutes after sunset\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Kyoto had some wonderful sunsets last month. <span class='nobr'>The picture<\/span> above is <span class='nobr'>a crop<\/span>\nfrom <span class='nobr'>a shot<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I took<\/span> from the top (fifth) floor of my building just after\nsunset. It doesn't look much different than the original frame, except for the size of the birds. Here's the uncropped frame...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='041024' href=\"\/i\/JEF_041024.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_041024_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i041024\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Birds are shown in sillouette against a deeply rich and smooth orange sunset, above Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_041024.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I'd used my 200mm zoom to try to isolate the orange, and just got lucky\nwith the birds. <span class='nobr'>A couple<\/span> of minutes prior, <span class='nobr'>I was using<\/span> my wide-angle lens\nand got some of the <i>blah<\/i> cityscape in there, as well as an airplane\nfar above....<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='041015' href=\"\/i\/JEF_041015.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_041015_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Dusk above Kyoto -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i041015\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Dusk over Kyoto, Japan, on a clear day with a deep blue sky and a rich, orange sunset\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 17mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, f\/6.3, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_041015.jpg\">full exif<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Dusk above Kyoto<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It's interesting to compare the colors of this sunset with those on my\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2007-05-10\/449\">Sunset from the Ferry<\/a>\npost. This sunset was decidedly orange, while the other one was very red. <span class='nobr'>The difference<\/span> perhaps was <span class='nobr'>a lack<\/span> of haze this time? Adding weight to that\nhypothesis is that you'll find even redder colors on my <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-04-03\/173\">Sunrise, Malaysian Style<\/a>\npost, from <span class='nobr'>a morning<\/span> when both the humidity and temperature were approaching\n100.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, back to this shot, <span class='nobr'>I was happy<\/span> to have gotten that first one;\nI'd tried the same thing earlier in the month, and failed (the failed shot\nhaving been included on my <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-11-03\/623\">first taste of fall colors<\/a>\npost).<\/p>\n\n<p>If you look carefully at the <a\nhref=\"\/i\/JEF_041015.jpg\" class='quiet'>larger version<\/a>\nof that last shot, you can see Kyoto Tower &ndash; the tallest structure in\nKyoto &ndash; in the distance, to the left of center. (It also appears on\nthe first picture of my post about <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-11-15\/636\">Kyoto Station<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto had some wonderful sunsets last month. The picture above is a crop from a shot I took from the top (fifth) floor of my building just after sunset. It doesn't look much different than the original frame, except for the size of the birds. Here's the uncropped frame...<\/p> <p>I'd used my 200mm zoom to try to isolate the orange, and just got lucky with the birds. A couple of minutes prior, I was using my wide-angle lens and got some of the blah cityscape in there, as well as an airplane far above....<\/p> <p>It's interesting to compare the colors [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}