{"id":38725,"date":"2025-04-30T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=38725"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:58:10","slug":"well-im-sure-you-have-things-to-do-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/04\/well-im-sure-you-have-things-to-do-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I’m sure you have things to do, April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, it’s the end of the month, but which<\/em> end? Oh, yeah, that one…<\/p>\n

That leads us inexorably to the month-end abstract, and to a dictionary to find out how to properly pronounce, “inexorably,” but hopefully one that doesn’t use all those special pronunciation characters like, “\/ɪn’ɛk.sə.ɹə.bli\/” – who the fuck can read that? I bet anyone that can is a load<\/em> of fun at parties. Regardless, we have this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Now see? That’s<\/em> a proper abstract – I really can accomplish them from time to time. No<\/em>, this wasn’t a guest photographer, shut up. But when the sun was shining through one of the two Japanese maples that were already established in the yard when we moved in, it was a simple matter to pick the ones that had the best effects and a texture you can almost feel. Go ahead – reach out and touch your monitor. It’ll feel the same way it always does, but you’ll imagine something else anyway.<\/p>\n

We’ll throw a couple more down, since we have them.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I’ve done this before, but it’s a fun experiment. This is simply a collection of coals from a fire hours before, still smoldering in the fire pit, that I stirred up during the 30-second exposure at night. But if you’re paying attention you’ll see there’s a faint pattern, and may realize that a lot of the coals are duplicated, because as I came back to the camera after stirring them I bumped the tripod leg – smoove.<\/p>\n

But that leads to this, naturally:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A simple effect, but one that takes a light touch, since this is racking the 18-135mm lens from wide to tele in that thirty seconds. Shaking and bumping and even less-than-steady zooming shows easily, so care must be taken – I actually used both hands on the zoom ring to keep the motion as smooth and regular as possible. If you zoom faster but then run out a few seconds at the long end, zoomed in tighter, then you’ll get fainter trails with bright ends, like flaming fragments leaving a path behind them. Here, the effect is very faint but more in the center, occurring at the wider\/shorter focal length instead, which for me was the beginning of the exposure as I gently got my hands into position. You can always zoom in the opposite direction too, tele to wide, and use little tricks like covering the lens with a soft cloth until your hands are in position and can start the movement right away. Be creative.<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s enough red\/orange – let’s find something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, it’s the end of the month, but which end? Oh, yeah, that one… That leads us inexorably to the month-end abstract, and to a dictionary to find out how to properly pronounce, “inexorably,” but hopefully one that doesn’t use all those special pronunciation characters like, “\/ɪn’ɛk.sə.ɹə.bli\/” – who the fuck can read that? I […]<\/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":[1529,6837,8068,5524,993,6070,676,8069],"class_list":["post-38725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-backlighting","tag-glowing-embers","tag-japanese-maple","tag-night-photography","tag-samaras","tag-time-exposures","tag-zoom-during-exposure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38725","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=38725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}