{"id":1439,"date":"2009-01-30T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2015-07-04T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:24:59","slug":"photo-friday-point-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/photo-friday-point-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Point Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pagoda by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/3238759239\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3077\/3238759239_cd338ef5f6.jpg\" alt=\"Pagoda\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>My friend K. and I have had <a href=\"http:\/\/bikenerd.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/photo-safari-snohomish-slough.html\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/three-in-the-fog\/\">successful<\/a> photo excursion days. We get in the car and head out to &#8230;somewhere, not anywhere specific, to shoot photos of&#8230; something, nothing in particular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bikenerd.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/point-of-views-photo-safari.html\">K. is a fine photographer<\/a> and has been doing some nice work with a <a href=\"http:\/\/lensbaby.com\/\">Lens Baby<\/a> on his Nikon, I was psyched to try it out. I achieved very mixed results &#8211; my broader landscape shots are totally uninteresting, most of the tighter, smaller shots have no good focal point, many are overexposed as I was completely flummoxed by the metering.<\/p>\n<p>The light was gray and even, perfect for detail but offering little by way of contrast. I got some success at the Pagoda at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroparkstacoma.org\/page.php?id=62\">Point Defiance Park<\/a>, the sharp red against the bright green helped, the reflection from the pond brought the light up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I love that digital photography makes it so easy for me to fail and yet, keep trying. A wasted shot is never wasted, it&#8217;s just the bookends to the shot I was hoping to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend K. and I have had several successful photo excursion days. We get in the car and head out to &#8230;somewhere, not anywhere specific, to shoot photos of&#8230; something, nothing in particular. K. is a fine photographer and has been doing some nice work with a Lens Baby on his Nikon, I was psyched &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Photo Friday: Point Defiance\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/photo-friday-point-defiance\/#more-1439\" aria-label=\"Read more about Photo Friday: Point Defiance\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[421,422,424,64,423],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lookit","tag-failure","tag-lens-baby","tag-pagoda","tag-photography","tag-point-defiance","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10502,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/10502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}