{"id":1984,"date":"2017-01-21T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2017-01-21T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T12:56:14","slug":"a-photographer-magnet-a-creative-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/a-photographer-magnet-a-creative-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"A photographer magnet \u2013 A creative surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-830x830.jpg 830w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-light-skater.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In this story series, I recounted that the St-Jean Hot Air Balloon Festival was a magnet for photographers in the sense that I had noticed other amateurs (or professionals!) like me that evening.<\/p>\n<p>What attracted my attention during the evening was a couple of photographers who were taking photos with the camera handheld and gesticulating&#8230; I realized that they might be drawing abstract shapes with the lights of the rides! Interesting &#8230; I hadn&#8217;t thought about that!<\/p>\n<p>I kept making my pictures with my tripod and later, I thought I could try the same.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this merry-go-round for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it was the last one in the area and there was no object or building behind it, which assured me to have a black background.<\/li>\n<li>the merry-go-round was revolving around an axis and I thought it might be interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I used a relatively small aperture (f\/10) so that the light would be slimmer, ISO 200 and a shutter speed of just over 3 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>After several attempts, I realized this picture that I immediately liked (even on the small screen on the camera): I thought it looked like a skater moving on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>It was a creative surprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this story series, I recounted that the St-Jean Hot Air Balloon Festival was a magnet for photographers in the sense that I had noticed other amateurs (or professionals!) like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}