{"id":479,"date":"2012-10-28T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2012-10-28T18:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:46:58","slug":"richmond-park-at-daybreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/28\/richmond-park-at-daybreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Park at Daybreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday, 27 October 2012:<\/strong>\u00a0The day before the clocks go back and the British summer, officially at least, is over. This is also the best day (from a lazy buggers perspective) of the autumnal season to take photos at daybreak, which happens at approximately 07:45. Virtually lunchtime! *cough*<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Target location for the morning was Richmond Park, Despite it\u2019s well documented as a photographers dream location, this would be my first visit. In hindsight, it really is beautiful and vast. I suspect I\u2019ll be spending much time there in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the planning for the day, I received loads of great advice from my Facebook pals,: Andy, Angela &amp; Gail for directions and top advice in the reminder to take drinks and snacks!<\/p>\n<h5>The Route<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=216785488127781350623.0004cd2276bff6c74895b&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=51.443309,-0.281181&amp;spn=0.064197,0.102997&amp;z=12&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: Left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=216785488127781350623.0004cd2276bff6c74895b&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=51.443309,-0.281181&amp;spn=0.064197,0.102997&amp;z=12&amp;source=embed\">Richmond Park<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<h5>The Objectives<\/h5>\n<p>It\u2019s always good to have couple of goals in mind before you set out, so I sat down over a glass of wine on Friday night and jotted down the following ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A picture of deer \/ stag going about their business<\/li>\n<li>A picture of autumn landscape at daybreak<\/li>\n<li>A ton of photos, taking advantage of the morning \u2018golden hour\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Keep the camera in M (manual) mode.<\/li>\n<li>Bracket shots for more HDR experiments<\/li>\n<li>Avoid getting eaten by a Stag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>The Kit<\/h5>\n<p>Equipped with the Sony A65 body and Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 zoom lens; plus a Tamron 70-300mm telephoto in the bag, I figured no more would be needed for a good morning stroll, with the possible addition of hat, scarf and gloves to protect me from what felt like arctic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of weight the tripod was left at home. Next time, it will certainly be included, I would have loved to take some brackets for HDR processing, something which didn\u2019t work at all handheld.<\/p>\n<p>If not a full tripod, I may consider a monopod in the future, particularly with the 300mm zoom, the damn thing was shaking around so much, virtually all my shots of deer from distance, came out blurry and fuzzy. A shame really.<\/p>\n<h5>Learning as I go<\/h5>\n<p>One point that I can now reflect upon, is I quite unconsciously kept the camera in full manual mode the whole time. The thought of using the automatic modes never occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>I think this a sign of getting comfortable with the relationship between ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed. I suspect I will not have the same confidence next week, with a flash gun attached! More on that another time, but my next update could well include Zombies!<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, I got home, downloaded the 160+ snaps into the Macbook and\u00a0 \u00a0 immediately started going through them. Three stood out straight away and with a few tweaks in Lightroom, the shots below were online and getting loads of positive feedback from my Facebook friends by lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give the rest a week or so and have another sort through, it&#8217;s always possible you miss things during that first \u2018emotional\u2019 evaluation of a new set of photos.<\/p>\n<h5>The Results<\/h5>\n<p>[singlepic id=23 w=500 h=375 float=center]<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=24 w=500 h=375 float=center]<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=25 w=500 h=375 float=center]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 27 October 2012:\u00a0The day before the clocks go back and the British summer, officially at least, is over. This is also the best day (from a lazy buggers perspective) of the autumnal season to take photos at daybreak, which happens at approximately 07:45. Virtually lunchtime! *cough*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[9,14,52,67,70,77,82,83,84,89,98,104,109],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fps","category-photography","tag-a65","tag-autumn","tag-goldenhour","tag-landscape-2","tag-london","tag-park","tag-photography-2","tag-photos","tag-pictures","tag-richmond","tag-sony","tag-tamron","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC02246-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}