{"id":17582,"date":"2017-01-03T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17582"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:14:13","slug":"philadelphias-2017-mummers-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/philadelphias-2017-mummers-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia’s 2017 Mummers Parade."},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 1, 2017, I exposed these photos along Philadelphia’s Broad Street of the annual Mummers parade.<\/p>\n

Using my LX7, I set the camera in ‘A’-mode (aperture priority), which allows me to set the aperture while the camera adjusts the shutter speed.<\/p>\n

I’ve found that to capture the spirit of a parade, using a slow shutter speed and panning puts the players in motion.<\/p>\n

Panning also sets off the parade participants from the urban background and helps reduce the visual complexity of the environment to make for more dramatic images.<\/p>\n

Below are a selection taken from some 500 digital images exposed on New Years Day.<\/p>\n

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On January 1, 2017, I exposed these photos along Philadelphia’s Broad Street of the annual Mummers parade. Using my LX7, I set the camera in ‘A’-mode (aperture priority), which allows me to set the aperture while the camera adjusts the shutter speed. I’ve found that to capture the spirit of a parade, using a slow … Continue reading Philadelphia’s 2017 Mummers Parade.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Tracking the Light Presents: Philadelphia's 2017 Mummers Parade.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[2326,3218,3206,520,183,3338],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mummers_P1570319.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4zA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17583,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582\/revisions\/17583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}