{"id":719,"date":"2010-01-22T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:03:20","slug":"mostly-monks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/mostly-monks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Monks,  Luang Prang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s our free day in Luang Prang and I could have slept in, but it&#8217;s just to hard to resist another 6:30 am parade of monks, so most of us are up and out the door by 6:15. Today, I thought I would try for something different in terms of my images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laTNLJiCI\/AAAAAAAAAho\/NhzwvItlksw\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0891_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laTNLJiCI\/AAAAAAAAAho\/NhzwvItlksw\/s320\/sea_group1_0891_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Choosing a low angle by placing my camera on the ground, I shot with my 70-200mm 2.8 lens. My settings were ISO 640 (my old Canon Mark II gets pretty noisy at anything above 640) my shutter speed was 1\/250 of a second because I needed enough speed to stop the moving feet, the resulting 3.2 f-stop was very shallow as you can see by looking at the pavement. With my focus spot set to just left of center and my focus mode in AI-Servo in order to track the subject, I snapped off about 4 frames of each passing monk. As expected, I had to throw most away, but there were a few which I liked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laW3z0rJI\/AAAAAAAAAh4\/zDgeP6LkH2o\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0978ps_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laW3z0rJI\/AAAAAAAAAh4\/zDgeP6LkH2o\/s320\/sea_group1_0978ps_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small girl sitting on a tiny stool caught my attention and I watched her looking up at the monks as they passed, her hands pressed together in the traditional sign of respect called the &#8220;wai&#8221;. I framed the shot by sitting on the ground perpendicular to her and fired off a few shots each time an opening between the monk&#8217;s orange robes appeared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laVqp_dxI\/AAAAAAAAAhw\/yHH6HZTjxXU\/s1600-h\/sea_group1_0927ps_std.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YDfGGOSO8bI\/S1laVqp_dxI\/AAAAAAAAAhw\/yHH6HZTjxXU\/s320\/sea_group1_0927ps_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the walk back to the hotel, I spotted some laundry hanging out on the front porch of a Laotian home. It wasn&#8217;t even 7:30 am and I had already shot more than 150 images. It&#8217;s just another great start to a phtoto-rich day here in Luang Prabang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our free day in Luang Prang and I could have slept in, but it&#8217;s just to hard to resist another 6:30 am parade of monks, so most of us are up and out the door by 6:15. Today, I thought I would try for something different in terms of my images. 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