{"id":408,"date":"2012-05-23T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:57:22","slug":"starlight-star-bright-first-shot-i-snap-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Starlight, star bright, first shot I snap tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/other-gadgets\/night-vision-cameras.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Infrared photo of Webster's Falls\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/80\/Infrared_photo_of_Webster%27s_falls.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared photo of Webster's Falls\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marcus Qwertyus\/Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Photography is all about light; it\u2019s right there in the name: photo (\u201clight\u201d) + graph (\u201cmeans of recording\u201d). So how do you shoot in the gloom between the golden hours? Well, you have a few options. You can pop in a flashbulb. You can try your hand at painting with light \u2013 that is, fiddling with f-stops and shutter speeds to let more light in over a longer period. Unfortunately, flashbulbs tend to wash out photos, and setting up longer exposures tends to limit your photographic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Night-vision cameras and attachments get around these problems, either by amplifying existing light or working with a different kind of ambient \u201clight\u201d \u2013 aka infrared radiation, either from body heat (thermal IR) or from an active IR illuminator attached to the camera. Today, infrared and ultraviolet cameras also make useful tools for inspections and field work. But how do they work, and what is their history?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/other-gadgets\/night-vision-cameras.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Night-vision Cameras Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography is all about light; it\u2019s right there in the name: photo (\u201clight\u201d) + graph (\u201cmeans of recording\u201d). So how do you shoot in the gloom between the golden hours? Well, you have a few options. You can pop in a flashbulb. You can try your hand at painting with light \u2013 that is, fiddling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=408\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starlight, star bright, first shot I snap tonight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,22,12,54,94,46,4,31,121,8,74,3,57,13],"tags":[309,311,307,303,23,5,306,79,25,83,308,221,310,304,305,225],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-astronomy","category-biochemistry","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-history","category-how-to","category-imaging","category-photography","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-cones","tag-corona","tag-electromagnetic-spectrum","tag-infrared","tag-insects","tag-inventors","tag-lux","tag-nasa","tag-nature","tag-remote-sensing","tag-rods","tag-satellites","tag-tapetum-lucidum","tag-thermal","tag-ultraviolet","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}