{"id":1167,"date":"2008-10-25T03:59:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2008-10-25T03:59:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:59:15","slug":"gliding-high-on-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Gliding High On Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm2.jpg\"><br \/>\nSugar glider madness!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm1.jpg\"><br \/>\n5 FPS at F1.4 and blending is not fast enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm10.jpg\"><br \/>\nThat, and you never know the exact point when they will jump.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm9.jpg\"><br \/>\nSo maybe you test the waters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm4.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;or you divert to other cutesy things.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm6.jpg\"><br \/>\nOh and fragrant cockroaches (not that I&#8217;ve smelt&#8230; and that&#8217;s not my hand.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm7.jpg\"><br \/>\nPinky!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm8.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;<i>Just a bit more!<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm5.jpg\"><br \/>\nSo then we had an idea. What if we used the strobe function of my HVL-F56AM?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sggm3.jpg\"><br \/>\n17mm F7.1 ISO200 at 1\/10th of a second. It was probably 10 times at 100 Hertz at 1\/32th power.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first lucky shot, and it was also the last &#8211; every other time we tried, we&#8217;d fire the shutter and capture the sugar glider already landed. Either that, or we fired too early. It wouldn&#8217;t reliably jump, either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d loved to have used a longer shutter speed to allow more time to catch the sugar glider&#8230; but longer shutter speeds would burn out the background, which was full of ambient light. Thus the only place this can happen is in a dark, dark studio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar glider madness! 5 FPS at F1.4 and blending is not fast enough. That, and you never know the exact point when they will jump. So maybe you test the waters&#8230; &#8230;or you divert to other cutesy things. Oh and fragrant cockroaches (not that I&#8217;ve smelt&#8230; and that&#8217;s not my hand.) Pinky! &#8220;Just a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}