{"id":33139,"date":"2022-11-02T21:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33139"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:35:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:35:36","slug":"i-was-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/11\/i-was-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I was there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when the aliens landed.<\/p>\n<p>I was out pretty late the other night, after a day of rain and drizzle, and the humidity and temperature made it just this side of fog. I drove past a scene and thought, <em>I really need to come back and capture this<\/em>, and so on returning home, I snagged the camera bag and tripod and went back out again. It helped that this was about a kilometer from the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AlienLandingTweak2.jpg\" alt=\"lot lights shining through trees and mist at night\" width=\"750\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33140\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>It was the mist in the air that made it work, but the fall colors helped a little. The original had a distinct greenish cast to it, so this version has been tweaked more neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Almost as soon as I&#8217;d set the tripod up, right after I&#8217;d gotten the exposure levels in the right range, it started raining again and appeared to be in earnest, so I had to pack it all up &#8211; literally, ninety seconds of shooting time. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s only some wastefully bright parking-lot lights up there, dog only knows why they&#8217;d be needed &#8211; you can see that I hid another down low behind the trunk of the central tree. Given more time to prepare and an assistant, I could have had some fun with creepy silhouettes in there, especially since this was only hours after Halloween, but not this time around. Maybe later on.<\/p>\n<p>Things may go a little quiet around here shortly, as I get up to my ass in a new project, but there remain many frames that wait to be posted, so I&#8217;ll try to stay on top of them. Just you wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when the aliens landed. I was out pretty late the other night, after a day of rain and drizzle, and the humidity and temperature made it just this side of fog. I drove past a scene and thought, I really need to come back and capture this, and so on returning home, I snagged [&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],"tags":[2195,2094,6597,6959],"class_list":["post-33139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-mist","tag-night-exposures","tag-time-exposure","tag-wheres-my-mola-ram-helmet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139","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=33139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}