{"id":206,"date":"2008-03-22T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-03-22T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:34:43","slug":"2008-wheelchairsunshine-classic-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/2008-wheelchairsunshine-classic-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Wheelchair\/Sunshine Classic shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/bodybuilding\/contests\/wcsun2K8\" target=\"_blank\">2008 Wheelchair Nationals\/Sunshine Classic<\/a> are up on the site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite happy with the shots, for the seat I chose.  I put a lot of the things that I learned at the February <a href=\"http:\/\/rmsp.com\/Weekends\" target=\"_blank\">RMSP seminar<\/a> up in Jacksonville to good use.<\/p>\n<p>The giant white CJ banner fouled the white balance in the shots if a competitor moved, or was placed, entirely in front of it.  Most shots I shot slightly off-center to keep a certain portion of the banner in the frame for white balance, then cropped it out in post-processing.<\/p>\n<p>I left the show early.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, I had to leave before the prejudging was complete because I had other obligations.  The show started an hour late, and ran at a pace I can only call moderate to slow.  No useful explanation was forthcoming for anything.  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I was grumpy because it bumped lunch so far back, or maybe I&#8217;ve been spoiled by really well-run shows of late, but after a while it gets to feel just plain insulting&#8211; and I&#8217;m *used* to a bit of delay, Bob only knows what the first-time spectators thought.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone got shots, though, and I got to my next stop on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2008 Wheelchair Nationals\/Sunshine Classic are up on the site. I&#8217;m quite happy with the shots, for the seat I chose. I put a lot of the things that I learned at the February RMSP seminar up in Jacksonville to good use. The giant white CJ banner fouled the white balance in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-ramblings","category-schedule","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}