{"id":20544,"date":"2017-07-15T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20544"},"modified":"2017-07-15T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:11:55","slug":"just-because-part-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/07\/just-because-part-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/OhBalls.jpg\" alt=\"String of white lights showing defocused circles of confusion\" width=\"730\" height=\"1041\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20545\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>A quick one this morning, an experimental shot done the other night while I was alongside a railing strung with white holiday lights. The Mamiya 80mm macro lens wide open at f4 is what&#8217;s largely responsible for the effect, and basic lens traits<strong>;<\/strong> the balls are simply point light sources well out of focus. <em>All<\/em> out-of-focus things have the exact same effect through a lens, but most times they&#8217;re not very bright against a black background, so the effect is weak, overlapping everywhere and washing out to a blur. It can also easily be done with dust or mist in the air illuminated by a flash, and then you can say you&#8217;re photographing &#8220;ghosts&#8221; or &#8220;orbs&#8221; or some such idiocy, if you like.<\/p>\n<p>The only further trick is finding the arrangement of lights that will look best in your frame. This was one of several that I took in two minutes, the one I liked the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick one this morning, an experimental shot done the other night while I was alongside a railing strung with white holiday lights. The Mamiya 80mm macro lens wide open at f4 is what&#8217;s largely responsible for the effect, and basic lens traits; the balls are simply point light sources well out of focus. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,136,3],"tags":[1454,3637,1455],"class_list":["post-20544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-composition","category-photo","tag-circle-of-confusion","tag-defocus","tag-orbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}