{"id":59071,"date":"2018-12-25T04:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=59071"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:49:46","slug":"seasons-greetings-jiggle-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2018\/12\/25\/seasons-greetings-jiggle-blur\/","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Greetings Jiggle Blur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Season&#8217;s Greetings<\/h3>\n<p>Jim and Jennifer and I send our best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful holiday season filled with love, sharing, and some quality photography. Have a great 2019 filled with the same, good health, and lots of nachas. <\/p>\n<p>Nachas: a Yiddish word meaning that you are happy and proud, especially of someone&#8217;s accomplishments. <\/p>\n<p>Note: <em>season&#8217;s greetings<\/em> with a possessive apostrophe after the n in seasons is correct. I had to re-do the image by adding the apostrophe after the fact. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><center>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/center><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>This image was created on the last evening of the DeSoto IPT in the parking lot of our Airbnb condo. I used the hand held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/1431717-REG\/nikon_20082_af_s_nikkor_500mm_f_5_6e.html\/BI\/6633\/KBID\/7226\/kw\/NI50056E\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNI50056E\" target=\"_blank\">Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f\/5.6E PF ED VR lens<\/a> and the rugged, blazingly fast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/1214152-REG\/nikon_1557_d5_dslr_camera_body.html\/BI\/6633\/KBID\/7226\/kw\/NID5XQD\/DFF\/d10-v2-t1-xNID5XQD\" target=\"_blank\">Nikon D5.<\/a> AUTO ISO at 4500. Matrix metering -1 stop:  1\/13 sec. at f\/5.6 in S Mode (Shutter Priority &#8212; Tv mode in Canon). Auto 1 WB at 9.00pm on a very dark night. \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n<p>Center Group (grp) AF\/Shutter button AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure. Click on the image enjoy a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: -1. See the Nikon AF Fine-tune e-Guide <a href=\"http:\/\/birdsasart-shop.com\/the-nikon-af-fine-tune-e-guide\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Season&#8217;s Greetings Jiggle Blur<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"468\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mer54715.datafeedfile.com\/widget\/aff_widget_prdt_generate-2.0.php?aff_num=7226&#038;aff_net=1&#038;size=468x60&#038;mode=m&#038;bucket_num=7725&#038;link_target=y&#038;sid=\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iFrame.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Season&#8217;s Greetings Jiggle Blur<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to Denise Ippolito for teaching me to create jiggle blurs many years ago. I taught her a few things in return over the years. We collaborated on a great guide to creating pleasing blurs.  See that below. <\/p>\n<h3>Exposure<\/h3>\n<p>Why -1 stop? To keep from grossly over-exposing the colored bulbs. This is, however, another case of burning the red channel to keep everything else from going muddy. Th<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/guide-to-pleasing-blurs.jpg\" class='shutterset'><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-content\/gallery\/general\/guide-to-pleasing-blurs.jpg\" alt=\"guide-to-pleasing-blurs\" title=\"guide-to-pleasing-blurs\" width=600 \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Learn the secrets of creating contest winning images in our &#8220;A Guide to Pleasing Blurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>A Guide to Pleasing Blurs<\/h3>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=375\">A Guide to Pleasing Blurs<\/a> by Denise Ippolito and yours truly, we discuss just about every technique ever used mankind to create pleasingly blurred image. Ninety-nine point nine percent of pleasing blurs <em>are not<\/em> happy accidents.  You can learn pretty much everything that there is to know about creating them in this instructive, well written, easy to follow guide.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season&#8217;s Greetings <\/p>\n<p>Jim and Jennifer and I send our best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful holiday season filled with love, sharing, and some quality photography. 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