{"id":2229,"date":"2008-09-16T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/catalinas-casino-at-night\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T02:57:10","slug":"catalinas-casino-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/catalinas-casino-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina&#8217;s Casino at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel usually gets all the good photo shots we post here, but this is an exception. Last Saturday night while we were in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotel-metropole.com\/\">hotel room<\/a>, I snapped this picture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcatalinaisland.com\/avalon\/poin_casino.php\">Casino<\/a>, a famous landmark where the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/avalonball.com\/\">Avalon Ball<\/a> is held. There was an event in the ballroom this night, hence the lights were on in the upper level. This was a definite photo opportunity. Please click the image to see the 1024 x 768 pixel version in the viewer.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/casino-at-night.jpg' title='Casino at night'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/casino-at-night.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Casino at night' class='centered' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/a710-canon.gif' alt='Canon A710 IS' class='right' \/>I used my compact <strong>Canon A710 IS<\/strong> camera mounted on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joby.com\/products\/gorillapod\/original\/\">Gorillapod<\/a> wrapped around a patio chair on the <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/the-balcony\/\">balcony<\/a> where we stayed. I had the camera set to Shutter Priority (automatic aperture) and an exposure time of  1.3 seconds. I used the shutter delay feature to let the camera motion stabilize after I pressed the shutter button. I did some minor image processing to balance the light levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel usually gets all the good photo shots we post here, but this is an exception. Last Saturday night while we were in our hotel room,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}