{"id":225,"date":"2012-01-23T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:31:31","slug":"the-morning-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/the-morning-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way into work this morning, it was a dreary day, but the sky was lighting up in front of me.\u00a0 As traffic was light, I grabbed my GX1 with one hand and just rested it on the dash.\u00a0 I rolled the aperture to its smallest, waited for an overpass and &#8216;click&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211; I got exactly what I was after on the very first try.\u00a0 Plopped the camera back in the bag next to me and continued on.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recommend shooting while driving, for the record, and I very, very rarely do it, but the conditions this morning seemed just right, and I didn&#8217;t need to concentrate on the shooting much, as I just had my ultra-wide on and I was able to crop to the framing I wanted in post, rather than concentrate on exact composition and distract my eyes from the road.\u00a0 In fact, I didn&#8217;t even need to take my eyes off the road.\u00a0 Ultimately, it worked out and I got the shot I was after&#8230;.a record of my morning commute.\u00a0 (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/morning_commute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-226\" title=\"morning_commute\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/morning_commute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/morning_commute.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/morning_commute-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Morning Commute, Panasonic GX1 with 7-14mm @ 9mm, 0.6 seconds, f\/22, ISO 160<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way into work this morning, it was a dreary day, but the sky was lighting up in front of me.\u00a0 As traffic was light, I grabbed my GX1 with one hand and just rested it on the dash.\u00a0 I rolled the aperture to its smallest, waited for an overpass and &#8216;click&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_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,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28RGq-3D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}