{"id":1429,"date":"2019-03-19T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2019-03-21T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:57:33","slug":"failed-photo-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/19\/failed-photo-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Photo Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mustarded all the energy and creative drive within me to go out on a mid-winter’s night to an island in the middle of Narragansett Bay to try to photograph a panorama of the Newport Bridge under the arch of the Milky Way. I had used the app PhotoPills to determine that the Milky would indeed be in this position as it had been. The trouble was that I was shooting to the northeast from Jamestown, RI Center which naturally had the background of Newport and the U.S. Naval Base which was brightly light affording a ton of light pollution to my ill-planned shoot (since I thought this would not be that much of an issue). It was!<\/p>\n

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The other fact of my failed photo shoot was that I was shooting at c.2:30 AM with a 15\u00ba temperature. I thought I was well dressed for the elements, except I underestimated that my hands (not gloved) would be exposed for over an 1 1\/2 hour time period. Needless to say, I panicked (to a degree) at that time (at the end of 1 1\/2 hrs.) since I did not have any strength in my hands. Luckily by that time I had retreated to my car but still had trouble retrieving the car keys from my jean pocket.<\/p>\n

Lesson learned. Do not underestimate the elements, as well as, pay attention to the shooting environment of your target figure (in my case, the light pollution of the city).<\/p>\n

This posted panorama was taken with a Canon 5DS, using a\u00a0Canon EF16-35mm f\/2.8L USM @ 25mm with an f\/2.8, 20″, ISO 160. These settings are a bit out of the ordinary for shooting the Milky Way but I was trying to adapt to the light pollution. So much so, that I even used a graduated 3-stop neutral density filter to deal with the light pollution. Post processing was done with DxO Photolab 2, Adobe CR, and Color Efex Pro 4.<\/p>\n

Addendum: The photo above does not show the Milky Way simply because of my camera settings. At the very least the ISO should have been 3200, and a shutter speed of 20-30″ to capture the stars. I somewhat captured the bridge but at too great a cost of a successfully planned photo. In other words, details matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mustarded all the energy and creative drive within me to go out on a mid-winter’s night to an island in the middle of Narragansett Bay to try to photograph a panorama of the Newport Bridge under the arch of the Milky Way. I had used the app PhotoPills to determine that the Milky would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,81,77,58,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}