{"id":837,"date":"2009-04-15T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2009-04-29T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:00:31","slug":"flash-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/flash-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After my run Wednesday at Two Rivers Park<\/a> I headed over to Pinnacle Mountain<\/a> to see if there was anything worth shooting. I stopped at the arboretum off Pinnacle Mountain Road thinking I might get a shot of some cypress knees<\/a> down by the Little Maumelle River. I did something to my knee during my run and I was limping pretty heavily. (I later made the self diagnosis of ilotibial band syndrome<\/a>.) I barely made it to the river and to add insult to injury I couldn’t find anything swampy that I wanted to shoot. <\/p>\n

On my limp back up he trail I came across this dead armadillo<\/a> and decided to try my hand at a little Strobist<\/a> style off-camera flash. I underexposed the ambient light and let the flash provide the correct exposure on the carcass. It didn’t turn out quite as I had envisioned. I envisioned a well-lit corpse with a goodly expanse of dark forest in the background. But hand-holding the flash while trying to get low on a badly hurting knee while enduring the stink of a dead armadillo is harder than it sounds. I gave up after two frames and this is what I got.<\/p>\n

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I headed back up the trail trying the technique on various plants and signs. I don’t think these are very good shots, but they’re the best of the many I tried for.<\/p>\n

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I spend a lot of time in the park because it has one of Abby’s favorite playgrounds, but I haven’t really found a good place to shoot the mountain itself. As I was leaving the arboretum at dusk I looked back to the left and saw the mountain looming and the road curving in front and got the idea to try for some car-light trails. Again, this isn’t much of a shot, but I did get some light trials. I think this would be much better at dawn because the rising sun should light the mountain while the road stays quite a bit more in the dark. I don’t know if I can get up that early, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my run Wednesday at Two Rivers Park I headed over to Pinnacle Mountain to see if there was anything worth shooting. I stopped at the arboretum off Pinnacle Mountain Road thinking I might get a shot of some cypress knees down by the Little Maumelle River. I did something to my knee during my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,34,37,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-strobistry","category-arkansas","category-oddball-stuff","category-photography","category-pinnacle-mountain","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}