{"id":3228,"date":"2010-11-09T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2011-09-12T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:13:44","slug":"india-photo-tour-arrives-in-jodhpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/india-photo-tour-arrives-in-jodhpur\/","title":{"rendered":"India Photo Tour Arrives in Jodhpur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jodhpur, the blue city, is located about 400 km from Delhi or about a one hour flight. We arrived in Jodhpur at around 3:30 PM, checked into our hotel and then drove to a vantage point above the Mehrangarh fort, and waited for the sun to set. This particular vantage point has a great view of jodhpur, with the Umaid Bahwan Palace on the horizon.<\/div>\n

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Once again, Heather Geigert, appears in an image on the blog.\u00a0 Above Heather is shown sitting in a position on the rocks below the fort, while we waited for\u00a0the sun to\u00a0set<\/div>\n

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After the sun sets, lights begin to appear in the town below, and the headlights and tail lights of cars, rickshaws and motorbikes can be seen. To create the effect of smeared red or white lights, we choose a slow speed, perhaps 3 to 5 seconds or even longer.<\/p>\n

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As we packed up and were about to depart, I noticed Carl Valiquet, one of the group members, photographing the fort. It looked like an interesting photo, so I snapped off a few frames. The rocky cliffs below the fort were being illuminated by the headlights of passing cars on the road below, and it was quite dramatic!<\/p>\n

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Finally on our way to the bus we noticed that the Jaswat Thada (the Royal cenotaph built in commemoration of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II) was all lit up, and was being reflected in the lake below. We all stopped to make some pictures. Since I don’t own a tripod, I cranked the ISO setting on my Nikon D3S up to 12,800 and using my 70-200 mm F2.8 VR lens, took several shots in succession at 1\/8th of a second, hoping for a sharp image. Above is the frame that looks best. It’s amazing how the newer, high ISO cameras are able to make relatively clean images, at ISOs, that a few years back, we only dreamed about!<\/div>\n
Please note that these images are straight out of the camera with no Photo-shopping. I shoot JPEG, rather than RAW, using white balance and exposure compensation to create the ‘effect” that I want. I’m not mentioning this to say that JPEG is better than RAW, because it’s not; it’s just what I do. Since I create thousands of images for my NGO clients every month, I find properly exposed JPEG s to be quite a bit more efficient. My goal is to get it right “in the camera”.<\/div>\n
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Here’s the full EXIF Data:<\/div>\n
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\nExposure compensation: -2\/3
\nFlash: Off
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\nISO: 12800
\nLens: VR 70-200mm f\/2.8G
\nFocal length: 70mm
\nFocal length: 70mm (in 35mm film)
\nVR Image Stabilization: On
\nAF mode: AF-S
\nImage size: 4256 x 2832
\nRotation: none
\nImage quality: FINE
\nWhite balance: SHADE
\nActive D-Lighting: Auto
\nPicture control: VIVID
\nColor space: sRGB
\nSaturation: Normal
\nSharpness: Normal
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Today was basically a travel day, but we did squeeze in one photo shoot this evening at my favorite vantage point below the Mehrangarh Fort…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}