{"id":961,"date":"2007-03-24T03:59:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T03:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=961"},"modified":"2012-01-04T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:00:07","slug":"spooky-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/spooky_saturday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I don&#8217;t think this one&#8217;s as nice as my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?entry=entry061015-210333\" target=\"_blank\">Spooky Sunday<\/a> photo, but it was neat to be able to try again. This effect was actually pretty easy, taken on a nice sunny afternoon walk with my wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>To get this kind of effect, simply crank down the aperture on your lens (I used F\/18 here) and then adjust your shutter speed to get it suitably dark (I used 1\/1000th sec). It&#8217;s that easy!<\/p>\n<p>Both of my Spooky photos were taken on very pleasant days, yet they have a dark, forboding look to them. Learning to do things like this by using my camera&#8217;s controls is really fun! Give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think this one&#8217;s as nice as my Spooky Sunday photo, but it was neat to be able to try again. This effect was actually pretty easy, taken on a nice sunny afternoon walk with my wife and son. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=961\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}