{"id":2502,"date":"2011-10-26T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2011-10-26T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:24:13","slug":"photo365-day-299-post-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-299-post-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 299 &#8211; Post box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting evening started out at this post box on the road over to Thorpe Salvin. I&#8217;d been considering shooting this for a few weeks, and tonight the sky was right.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I hadn&#8217;t taken into consideration was cars. The post box is on a B road but I didn&#8217;t think it would be busy. I proceeded to shoot my series of 30sec intervals. I&#8217;d set up the Pentax K10D with the 12-24mm pointing upwards at the post box and made a first exposure with my Joby torch. On the second shot a car past and illuminated the post box, and field beyond. The torch wasn&#8217;t powerful enough to light the field so the car came in handy. It flooded the post box with light though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/images\/bbcode\/347\/stars-2.jpg\" alt=\"stars-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So a bit of layer masking I could merge the car headlight illuminated field and the torch lit post box, the frames where blended using StarStaX.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ephotozine.com\/images\/bbcode\/347\/postbox.jpg\" alt=\"postbox.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d planned to shoot a one hour set but the timer I was using started playing up so I decided to quite early and go off to a new location.<\/p>\n<p>I chose Clumber Park. Totally spooky out of the way location and in the evening in total darkness i could hear the sort of noises you hear in those horror films where a group of teenagers decided to camp out and all get slaughtered one by one. With my imagination running wild I decided it best if I didn&#8217;t stay around long, but I did get an interesting shot that I&#8217;ll post in the gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting evening started out at this post box on the road over to Thorpe Salvin. I&#8217;d been considering shooting this for a few weeks, and tonight the sky was right. The only thing I hadn&#8217;t taken into consideration was cars. The post box is on a B road but I didn&#8217;t think it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[1504,1892,1978,2148,2156],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-clumber","tag-night-scene","tag-post-box","tag-spooky","tag-star-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}