{"id":55,"date":"2012-07-01T18:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:40:09","slug":"photography-at-night-excuse-the-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Photography at Night &#8211; excuse the vanity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As \u00a0you may know I have been working on a project which involves night photography (more about this soon) and once everything is set-up (which takes a while in the dark),\u00a0this usually involves very long exposure times. I am often asked what I do during these protracted periods of time. Well you can see below that I behave like a tourist and have my photo taken with attractions like Concorde:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=58\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1340150597&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9 2012 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Doug with Concorde\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg?fit=625%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" title=\"Doug with Concorde\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg?resize=625%2C417\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0305.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And occasionally I hang around with fast cars:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"56\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=56\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg?fit=1000%2C664&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,664\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1340155196&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9 2012 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_120620_0325\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg?fit=625%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56\" title=\"Kurn_120620_0325\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg?resize=625%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0325.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or just loiter hoping to be recognised:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0317.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=57\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kurn_120620_0317.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1340153859&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00c2\\u00a9 2012 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_120620_0317\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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I am often asked what I do during these protracted periods of time. Well you can see below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[22,4,21,5,6],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-shots","tag-concorde","tag-douglas-kurn","tag-night-photography","tag-photography","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}