{"id":1296,"date":"2010-08-30T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:13:20","slug":"2010-florida-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/2010-florida-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Florida shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/albums\/fla2K10\/normal_2010floridas_www_lucas-photo_com_IMG_5281.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Floridas\" style=\"float: left; clear: right; padding: 0px 8px; 8px 0px;\" \/>Shots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/thumbnails.php?album=134\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Florida Championships<\/a>, held August 21 in Orlando, are going up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The lighting was marginal at the Rosen Center ballroom&#8211; two cans on either side of the stage plus the room&#8217;s incandescents set low.  Not trusting the light, I shot at 1600 ISO with custom white balance and that seemed to turn out passably well&#8211; though of course I prefer some room to work with.  (There&#8217;s a firmware hack to allow the Rebel to shoot at 3200, but I&#8217;ve never been able to get it to work.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of flat-floor venues for contests, either; the view from the back rows and side wings is nearly always problematic.  That said, both the number of competitors and the level of competition were wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>The bikini contest took up an excess of time, both in the judging and in the post-processing.  I am seriously considering just skipping that portion of the shows&#8230; we&#8217;ll see how many hits those shots get in comparison to the shots of the athletes.  To their credit, though, some of the bikini class participants are getting noticeably more athletic&#8230; likely tired of looking like the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>I also did a shoot afterward with amazing competitor Iris Davis, and those shots came out spectacularly.  Look for it shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2010 Florida Championships, held August 21 in Orlando, are going up on the site. The lighting was marginal at the Rosen Center ballroom&#8211; two cans on either side of the stage plus the room&#8217;s incandescents set low. Not trusting the light, I shot at 1600 ISO with custom white balance and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding","category-contests","category-individuals","category-ramblings","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}