{"id":675,"date":"2009-05-02T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T15:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-08-21T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:25:36","slug":"2009-gateway-classic-shots-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/2009-gateway-classic-shots-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Gateway Classic shots up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/cm\/thumbnails.php?album=11\" target=\"_blank\">2009 Gateway Classic<\/a> are up on the site.  <\/p>\n<p>Lighting wasn&#8217;t too bad, though I had to shoot at 1600 and the banners behind the competitors fouled up the white balance again.  I also made a boneheaded mistake; I left the autofocus set to &#8220;all points&#8221; from my last use of the camera instead of a single point, so in several of the shots the autofocus was zeroing either the banner ads on stage (bad but salvageable) or the top of one of the judges&#8217; heads (very very bad).<\/p>\n<p>I really want to push myself so that even in rough lighting conditions I&#8217;m keeping more shots than I&#8217;m throwing away.  I&#8217;m not there yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enjoy.  The next show I&#8217;m attending is late June, but I <strong>hope<\/strong> to have some updates before then.  Why &#8220;hope&#8221;, you say?  Well, if anyone didn&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m getting married (!) next week, which fact may limit the amount of attention I can give this for a month or so.  <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots from the 2009 Gateway Classic are up on the site. Lighting wasn&#8217;t too bad, though I had to shoot at 1600 and the banners behind the competitors fouled up the white balance again. I also made a boneheaded mistake; I left the autofocus set to &#8220;all points&#8221; from my last use of the camera [&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-675","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\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}