{"id":116,"date":"2006-11-25T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/25\/snowy-night\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T05:35:56","slug":"snowy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/25\/snowy-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snowing in Burnaby as I write this.  That&#8217;s strange, particularly since I don&#8217;t remember it being all that cold when I was out earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Having been inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/~alavergn\/\">Anne<\/a> (who said she was doing the same), I went out to take some pictures.  My Rebel XT is at school, but I did have the Canon A710 that I got Dad for Christmas (but haven&#8217;t sent yet).  It has image stabilization, so it seemed quite well suited to night shooting and the long exposure times that come with it.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, image stabilization is cool, as you can see from <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/snowy-night\/\">the results<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first shot I took, that metered to a full second was too long for my hand and the image stabilization to hold still.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/snowy-night\/a710-img_0036.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/15997-2\/a710-img_0036.jpg\" alt=\"blurry night shot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was waiting for my beverage at Starbucks, I found the exposure compensation setting on the camera (so I could tell it not to try to get a bright picture, and leave it a little underexposed&mdash;that shortens the exposure time).  Back out on the street, things got better.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/snowy-night\/a710-img_0038.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/16001-2\/a710-img_0038.jpg\" alt=\"Hastings Street at night\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/snowy-night\/a710-img_0043.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/d\/16010-2\/a710-img_0043.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Street at night\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exposure time on that last picture is 1\/4 second.  That&#8217;s <strong>really<\/strong> long for a clear hand-held shot.  I wouldn&#8217;t get anywhere close to that without the stabilization.  Thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>But, my vanilla creme wasn&#8217;t nearly hot enough to offset the cold and damp that came from going to get it.  Should have stayed home and made hot chocolate or something.  Thumbs down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snowing in Burnaby as I write this. That&#8217;s strange, particularly since I don&#8217;t remember it being all that cold when I was out earlier. Having been inspired by Anne (who said she was doing the same), I went out to take some pictures. My Rebel XT is at school, but I did have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}