{"id":24347,"date":"2022-10-26T01:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24347"},"modified":"2022-10-25T23:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T03:41:42","slug":"candlelights-no-longer-a-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/candlelights-no-longer-a-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"candlelight’s no longer a pain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Candlelight early 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the days of film, candlelight was so dim and the media so slow that only a tripod could keep the camera steady. Inanimate objects or perhaps adults could stay still enough but children and animals were utterly hopeless as subjects.<\/p>\n

Fortunately we entered the digital era a few decades ago and suddenly between the much faster ISO sensors and optical stabilization technology, candlelight became a potential illumination source.<\/p>\n

By this century, digital technology had improved so much that even hand held shots by candlelight became possible – like this example taken with a Sony mirrorless camera.<\/p>\n

Note. The title of this post is a riff on Melanie’s<\/a> c1970 album, “Candles in the Rain<\/a>“, and\u00a0her song, “Lay Down (also called Candles in the Rain<\/a>)”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In the days of film, candlelight was so dim and the media so slow that only a tripod could keep the camera steady. Inanimate objects or perhaps adults could stay still enough but children and animals were utterly hopeless … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[398,4211,105,550,208],"class_list":["post-24347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-processes","tag-camera","tag-candlelight","tag-digital","tag-image","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24352,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions\/24352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}