{"id":1019,"date":"2007-12-15T00:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T00:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1019"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:00:13","slug":"photography-in-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/photography-in-the-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography in the gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The light today was terrible. The sky was heavily overcast, and the general gloom made it difficult to get enough light for too many photos. It didn&#39;t help that I tended to aim for the more naturally shaded areas. The poor light has two main effects on the camera. Firstly it reduces shutter speed, so motion blur (even with image stabilization) is an issue. The second is that to achieve anything at all you need a wide-open aperture, which can lose some of the crispness of the shot. I tend to under-expose a bit, which helps keep the shutter speed at a workable level, and then brighten the shot during the processing. All the daytime shots were taken at ISO 800 and with the lens extended to 400mm (which says something about the usefulness of image stabilization for hand-held shots).<\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bluetit_1412077880.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Blue tit taken at 1\/60sec, F\/5.6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/greywagtail_1412077899.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Grey Wagtail taken at 1\/250sec, F\/7.1, exposure compensation -2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/sparrow_1412077909.jpg' \/><\/span><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sparrow taken at  1\/100sec, F\/6.3, exposure compensation -1.33<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/squirrel_1412077870.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Squirrel taken at 1\/60sec, F\/5.6, exposure compensation -0.66<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for the foxes, it was the turn of the shy one to put in an all too brief appearance. It was lurking at the back of the garden and I grabbed just a couple of shots from distance, hence the bad case of eye-shine. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/fox_shy_1412077926.jpg' \/><\/span> Fox taken at 1\/125sec, F\/10 with flash, at 102mm.<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: daytime shots all taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. the fox was photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,50],"tags":[40,24],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-squirrel","tag-photography","tag-wildlife-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}