{"id":5,"date":"2019-11-16T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2019-11-18T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:45:40","slug":"nearly-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/16\/nearly-full-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve read a few books about photography,  I&#8217;ve learned much more through trial and error.  With this photograph I learned that, at least with my camera, you can capture a much better picture of the moon <em>at dusk or dawn<\/em> than you can when the sky is completely dark.  In total darkness, my camera struggles with focus and exposure even when using spot-metering and single-point focus.  This picture was taken while the sky was still quite purple, but the exposure settings have blackened it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP6518.JPG-2019-10-15-Nearly-Full-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1335\" height=\"1317\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMGP6518.JPG-2019-10-15-Nearly-Full-Moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve read a few books about photography, I&#8217;ve learned much more through trial and error. With this photograph I learned that, at least with my camera, you can capture a much better picture of the moon at dusk or dawn than you can when the sky is completely dark. In total darkness, my camera &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/16\/nearly-full-moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nearly Full Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography","tag-moon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}