{"id":1635,"date":"2007-12-07T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/hiking-photography\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:50:41","slug":"hiking-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/hiking-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking &#038; photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildebeat.net\" target=\"_blank\">Steve<\/a> why he never takes a camera hiking and he&#8217;ll mention the boxes &amp; boxes of slides from backpacking trips of days gone by that he never looks at anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/outside.danmitchell.org\/\">Dan<\/a>, who could equip a polar expedition on what he&#8217;s shelled out for high-end camera bodies, lenses, tripods &amp; such.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m  in the middle &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to carry the weight, spend the money or endure the aggravation of a bigger, better camera. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/cameras\/canon\/powershot_a710_is\/\" target=\"_blank\">digital point-and-shoot <\/a>brings home OK pictures most weekends; the quality depends mostly on the scenery.<\/p>\n<p>A few conclusions based on  a few years of hiking, taking pictures and posting them online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Image stabilization technology is the best thing to happen to cameras since the flashbulb. If you&#8217;re looking for a light point-and-shoot for hiking &amp; backpacking, pay extra to get it (I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;ll be pretty much standard on all digital cameras in a couple years.)<\/li>\n<li>Cameras that use double-A batteries are far more flexible &#8212; you can buy a recharger and a bunch of cheap rechargeable batteries and always have some power ready.  GPS units often also use double-A batteries, so you get multiple uses.<\/li>\n<li>Pictures you plan to air publicly should be cropped for best effect.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re planning to post a bunch of pictures, leave out redundant images, even if they&#8217;re from different locales.<\/li>\n<li>Master all your current camera&#8217;s functions before you buy another one with even more functions.<\/li>\n<li>Backlighting is evil. You can get some cool silhouette effects, but otherwise, make sure the sun&#8217;s over your shoulder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, these are the first that spring to mind &#8230; feel free to add suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask Steve why he never takes a camera hiking and he&#8217;ll mention the boxes &amp; boxes of slides from backpacking trips of days gone by that he never looks at anymore. Then there&#8217;s Dan, who could equip a polar expedition&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/hiking-photography\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[501,499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}