{"id":807,"date":"2008-05-04T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T23:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:11:53","slug":"photo-of-the-week-11-a-lunar-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/05\/04\/photo-of-the-week-11-a-lunar-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 11 &#8211; A Lunar Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although planning and preparation are very important in photography, some of the best shots are still happy coincidences. This is the perfect example of such a shot. I thought I&#8217;d figured out the exact shot I wanted so I was making my way to the spot I&#8217;d chosen very carefully when I glint of reflected moonlight hit my eye. I stopped my bike immediately and managed to get this shot after a few attempts.<\/p>\n<p>I took this shot not long after sunset on an evening early last month from the edge of the playing fields on the campus of St. Patrick&#8217;s College in Maynooth, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2465354563\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/alunarreflection.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Lunar Reflection\" width=\"464\" height=\"464\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/>Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in such things here are some of the technical details of the shot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 6 Sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 28mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F4.2<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 800<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Compensation:<\/strong> 0.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[tags]Maynooth, Ireland, Moon, Reflection[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although planning and preparation are very important in photography, some of the best shots are still happy coincidences. This is the perfect example of such a shot. I thought I&#8217;d figured out the exact shot I wanted so I was making my way to the spot I&#8217;d chosen very carefully when I glint of reflected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[88,87,28,97],"series":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-astrophotography","tag-moon","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-reflection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-d1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}