{"id":1866,"date":"2014-08-27T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2014-08-27T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T03:09:04","slug":"2014-florida-state-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/2014-florida-state-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Florida State shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/bodybuilding\/contests\/2014\/floridas\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0px 12px 6px 8px; float: right; clear: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/banner2014floridas.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Florida State bodybuilding competitor\"  width=\"331\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShots from the <a title=\"2014 Florida State\" href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/bodybuilding\/contests\/2014\/floridas\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Florida State Championships<\/a> are up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite pleased with the shots overall, as well as how I pushed myself out of my comfort zone&#8211; this is the first show I&#8217;ve ever shot with fully manual exposure, start to finish.  And if the exposures aren&#8217;t quite perfect, they&#8217;re a <strong>lot <\/strong> more consistent than automatic settings can achieve, which helps the post-processing considerably (and it&#8217;s still been a fortnight since the show and I&#8217;m just finishing).<\/p>\n<p>The venue is a strange setup, where you&#8217;re either too low or too far away, but the lighting wasn&#8217;t too bad.  The show moved at a rather frenetic pace at times, which meant I had to do shots of some entire classes instead of individuals (which I prefer), but with a show this size you have to keep things moving.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m starting on the Lakeland show shots; I have the next couple of weekends free before the Gainesville, and for that the travel time is negligible (well, usually&#8211; the Gators host Alabama that weekend and game time hasn&#8217;t been set yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2014 Florida State Championships are up on the site. I&#8217;m quite pleased with the shots overall, as well as how I pushed myself out of my comfort zone&#8211; this is the first show I&#8217;ve ever shot with fully manual exposure, start to finish. And if the exposures aren&#8217;t quite perfect, they&#8217;re a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9,7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding","category-contests","category-gainesville","category-ramblings","category-schedule","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}