{"id":508,"date":"2010-05-16T17:24:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zogspat.tk\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-05-16T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T17:24:49","slug":"back-to-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Back to Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been down to Sandy, or more specifically the RSPB HQ, about 6 or 8 times in the last year or so and probably had my most successful shooting this morning. I decided to my modify my usual mode of operation [walk and hope for the best] by camping out in the hide for a couple of hours, basically because I had a hangover and didn&#8217;t fancy a 3 mile hike largely unspoilt by photography. I&#8217;m reasonably pleased with the results although a decent shot of a woodpecker still eludes me. The one in collection of shots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-plot.com\/galleries\/sandy\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> decided to put in an appearance when the light faded particularly badly. Shooting handheld at 400mm isn&#8217;t terribly forgiving: anything at less than 1\/200 second is guaranteed to be a write-off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve modified my set-up for the wildlife: centre autofocus, plus a reverting to jpeg: I&#8217;m never really going to push the pixels around that much with a wildlife shot, so there&#8217;s no point in shooting RAW.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I come back from a session like today, I think I should flick over to shutter priority [I always shoot in aperture priority when I&#8217;m not doing something manual because of the flash] and set the ISO to auto but I&#8217;ve never experimented with it to see how smart it is at choosing the lowest possible setting for a given exposure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been down to Sandy, or more specifically the RSPB HQ, about 6 or 8 times in the last year or so and probably had my most successful shooting this morning. I decided to my modify my usual mode of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}