{"id":29355,"date":"2020-06-22T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29355"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T20:59:31","slug":"making-the-most-of-the-summer-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/making-the-most-of-the-summer-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of the Summer Sky."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ok, Opening Day at the Conway Scenic was technically about a day before the solstice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the effect of high summer, high humidity and puffy clouds against a blue dome were the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intense contrasty light prevailed after 930am, and so most of the photos from the day were made during some of the most difficult daylight conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I exposed these views with my FujiFilm XT-1 digital camera and adjusted them using Adobe 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was technically about a day before the solstice. But the effect of high summer, high humidity and puffy clouds against a blue dome were the same. Intense contrasty light prevailed after 930am, and so most of the photos from the day were made during some of the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/making-the-most-of-the-summer-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the Most of the Summer Sky.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[7536],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-7Dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355"}],"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=29355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29359,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29355\/revisions\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}