{"id":2307,"date":"2010-02-06T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2013-06-23T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T20:52:08","slug":"fun-with-light-en-route-to-mandan-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"Fun with light en route to Mandan last night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>I was on my way (or “10-76”, as I was once required to say) to Mandan to wrap up some business last night when I noticed a very neat phenomenon on the bridge. The air was quite hazy and the snow was flying, and the lights on the new Memorial Bridge caused a sharp line of light next to the bridge on the north side. It was such a sharp-edged beam of light that one could drive right up to it! Really cool.<\/p>\n

Having accomplished what I needed to in Mandan, I came back and took a few minutes to see how my camera would react to the light. Since I needed to do a long exposure anyway, I decided to hold the shutter open long enough to make the taillights of passing cars streak across the frame. I experimented with the settings a bit to make sure I got the blazing beam of light on the bridge’s north edge, the taillights, and the other regions of the picture all exposed the way I wanted to. Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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