{"id":32282,"date":"2022-07-06T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32282"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:30:25","slug":"a-bit-more-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/a-bit-more-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit more useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling bad about not illustrating scale very well <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/only-kind-of-useful\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few posts back<\/a>, I revisited the same subjects (well, two of the three) to do a better job. And got a bonus as well.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/727528136?h=b191d922b0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"A better iIlustration\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This still remains kind of a  pain in the ass, however &#8211; closeup video at night has a lot of issues, and the 7D really isn&#8217;t optimized for this. But it&#8217;ll be a long time (<em>e.g.<\/em>, significant income) before I decide to upgrade to serious video equipment, so this is what we have for now.<\/p>\n<p>A small side note<strong>:<\/strong> At one point the other day, I&#8217;d seen a bird dart over to snag something near the Japanese maple that has been hosting the anoles, actually crashing against one of the low branches that I&#8217;d seen an anole on, and I was a little worried that the bird has just snagged my photo subject, though I&#8217;d checked carefully only minutes before and saw no sign of it nearby<strong>;<\/strong> more likely the bird was after a dragonfly. Still, this is what happens in nature, so we&#8217;ll see how long and how often I can find any of these again.<\/p>\n<p>I have other video coming up soon-ish &#8211; still hoping to get some more clips to add to it. You know where to find it when it appears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling bad about not illustrating scale very well a few posts back, I revisited the same subjects (well, two of the three) to do a better job. And got a bonus as well. This still remains kind of a pain in the ass, however &#8211; closeup video at night has a lot of issues, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[531,3020,3130,4081,1262,3196,5655,2444,3189],"class_list":["post-32282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-araneus-cavaticus","tag-barn-spider","tag-carolina-anole","tag-chinese-mantis","tag-juvenile","tag-misting","tag-scale","tag-tenodera-sinensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282","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=32282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}