{"id":1427,"date":"2009-12-12T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2009-12-12T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T15:08:07","slug":"austin_photo_meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Austin Photo meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0499.JPG\" alt=\"Capitol ceiling\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nNot one, but two different Austin Photographers meetups are scheduled for this weekend.  One is on Saturday and one is on Sunday.  How odd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI started off in the Capitol Building.  Which I have never been in before.  So sad.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0552.JPG\" alt=\"Christmas ornament bokeh\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nA few Christmas ornaments on a scraggly tree turn a little more interesting with a thin depth of field and Christmas lights bokeh.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0577.JPG\" alt=\"Guitar sculpture\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThere are these customized art sculptures of guitars around the streets of Austin.  I played around with killing the background with my one 580EXII flash set on full manual power.  I dialed the exposure down two more stops in post-production to almost kill boring urban background.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0592.JPG\" alt=\"neon lights\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI also played around with a slow shutter speed (1\/10 second) and dragging the camera downward.  One neon light can turn into many&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0597.JPG\" alt=\"Jeff\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIt also works when you change the zoom as the picture is being taken&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0635.JPG\" alt=\"capitol building\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWe also played chicken with traffic while we took a picture of the Capitol building.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0642.JPG\" alt=\"Joseph's Frost Bank\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAn urban mural turned more interesting with a picture of Frost Bank in the background.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-7D-IMG_0661.JPG\" alt=\"Foggy Christmas Tree\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe night was rather foggy out.  Which was sad.  What can you do?  I still had a fun time though.  And I also learned not to use the flash when taking a picture of something in the distance.  The fog really reflected the light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not one, but two different Austin Photographers meetups are scheduled for this weekend. One is on Saturday and one is on Sunday. How odd. I started off in the Capitol Building. Which I have never been in before. So sad. A few Christmas ornaments on a scraggly tree turn a little more interesting with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}