{"id":690,"date":"2013-02-13T23:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-02-13T23:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:18:51","slug":"moonset-over-the-esplanade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/moonset-over-the-esplanade","title":{"rendered":"Moonset Over the Esplanade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8519\/8471226192_4b57697363_z.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crescent moon begins to set over the Esplanade &#8211; Theatres by the Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was on the seating gallery of the Marina Bay Floating Platform to shoot a panorama of the River Hongbao 2013. As I started to pack up, I caught sight of a crescent moon above the dome of the Esplanade &#8211; Theatres by the Bay. Not wanting to miss the shot, I quickly set up again.<\/p>\n<p>From the LCD, I realised that thought it&#8217;s out of frame, the bright spotlight on the left of the pic is causing some flare. So I had to use my hand to shield the light from reaching the lens. What I am surprised is how far out I had to stretch my left hand in order to properly eliminate the flare. I also had to be careful not to let the hand show up in the pic.<\/p>\n<p>After a few tries, this is the successful shot. I also found later that the moon is actually setting, not rising as I had initially thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the seating gallery of the Marina Bay Floating Platform to shoot a panorama of the River Hongbao 2013. As I started to pack up, I caught sight of a crescent moon above the dome of the Esplanade &#8211; Theatres by the Bay. Not wanting to miss the shot, I quickly set up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/moonset-over-the-esplanade\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moonset Over the Esplanade<\/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":[3],"tags":[292,46,293,182,177,291,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}