{"id":1402,"date":"2011-04-23T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:30:19","slug":"2011-orlando-metro-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/2011-orlando-metro-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Orlando Metro shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/thumbnails.php?album=143\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px; float: left; clear: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/albums\/orandoMetro2011\/normal_Img_1291.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Metro 2011 figure competitor\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/thumbnails.php?album=143\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Orlando Metro<\/a> are up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t my best work; the light-colored background at Lyman got me again, leaving many of the competitors looking over-contrasted, though the shots look wonderful in the camera&#8217;s preview panel.  Need to get there super-early one time and experiment&#8211; probably just need to use a counterintuitive metering mode.<\/p>\n<p>For a debut show the Orlando Metro ran like a top.  High point of the prejudging was head judge Pete Fancher calling out a &#8220;helpful&#8221; audience member who had yelled &#8220;Open it up!&#8221; to his figure-competitor protege&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do <strong>not<\/strong> &#8216;open it up&#8217;,&#8221;  Pete responded.  &#8220;We&#8217;re holding a seminar called, &#8216;What the Judges are Looking For&#8217;, you might want to attend that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Priceless!&#160; And overdue.&#160; (Pete was serious, too, by the way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2011 Orlando Metro are up on the site. This isn&#8217;t my best work; the light-colored background at Lyman got me again, leaving many of the competitors looking over-contrasted, though the shots look wonderful in the camera&#8217;s preview panel. Need to get there super-early one time and experiment&#8211; probably just need to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding","category-ramblings","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}