{"id":4260,"date":"2012-10-17T00:33:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2012-10-17T00:47:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:47:49","slug":"bang-the-drum-ring-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/bang-the-drum-ring-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang The Drum, Ring The Bell!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this seldom-seen view, devotees of the Nine Emperor Gods go through a ceremony inviting the deities for a street procession. The temple was closed to the public during this ritual, earlier tonight.<\/p>\n

I set the shutter speed to 1\/30th of a second instead of a higher action-stopping speed. This blurred the fast moving hands a bit, capturing the fluidity and rapid movement in the scene.<\/p>\n

So far, throughout the Nine Emperor Gods Festival<\/a>, I have been using only one lens. The excellent Panasonic 7-14mm ultrawide angle lens. As with any ultra-wide angle lens, levelling is tricky due to the converging vertical lines. Usually this isn’t a problem for me but it can be messy when I am forced to crop off-centre later.<\/p>\n

To eliminate this potential complication, I set the camera’s ratio to 1:1 (square format) while composing. I am beginning to like it as I don’t need to crop later for Instagram. With much less room for fixing framing error via cropping later, I am forced to get the framing as perfect as possible in-camera.<\/p>\n

Try it. Live dangerously.<\/p>\n

\"Bang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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