{"id":492,"date":"2009-02-13T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-02-13T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T02:11:22","slug":"tripod-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/tripod-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripod Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally bit the bullet and got myself some nice tripod legs. Before now, i settled with my crappy ones, and borrowed Peter&#8217;s when I needed something nice. I purchased the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velbon.co.uk\/newvelbon\/pages\/CF645.html\">Velbon El Carmagne 640<\/a>. It is great. It weighs just over 3lbs, but is very stable. I experimented with some macro shots tonight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"494\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/tripod-tests\/bastardino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Joshua Lopatin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-510&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1234573504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009 Joshua Lopatin&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;147&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bastardino\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-494\" title=\"bastardino\" src=\"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"493\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/tripod-tests\/bastardino-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,599\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Joshua Lopatin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E-510&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1234574134&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2009 Joshua Lopatin&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bastardino-2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-2-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-493\" title=\"bastardino-2\" src=\"http:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bastardino-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These shots were editing in Adobe Lightroom. I did some minor exposure correction, and sharpening. I also added a vignette effect to the first image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally bit the bullet and got myself some nice tripod legs. Before now, i settled with my crappy ones, and borrowed Peter&#8217;s when I needed something nice. I purchased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/tripod-tests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[99,281],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photos","tag-macro","tag-photos","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pt6Et-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlopatin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}