{"id":481,"date":"2008-01-24T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/difficult-photo-subject\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T20:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:53:02","slug":"difficult-photo-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/photography\/difficult-photo-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult photo subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/longboat-dusk.jpg\" alt=\"dusk on longoat key\" height=\"580\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was struck by a subtle quality of light at dusk on Longboat Key. It&#8217;s the kind of effect that is very difficult to get in photos. It was very dark by then, and my Canon A620 isn&#8217;t as good at low-light situations as an SLR would be. I shot this at ISO 400, 1\/30, 3.5. In Photoshop I lightened it a bit just by moving the center and right levels sliders &#8212; I didn&#8217;t want to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/tutorial-restoring-a-dark-image-in-photoshop\/\" title=\"improving dark photos\">my regular technique for lightening dark photos<\/a>, because I wanted to keep the sense of gathering darkness. I also increased the saturation just a little. I think the result is the sort of picture that some people might like while others will just shrug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by a subtle quality of light at dusk on Longboat Key. It&#8217;s the kind of effect that is very difficult to get in photos. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}