{"id":131,"date":"2004-06-08T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/parties\/200406082302.html"},"modified":"2008-12-21T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:25:58","slug":"alain-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/08\/alain-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/alain-may2004\/CRW_5759\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/albums\/alain-may2004\/CRW_5759.highlight.jpg\" alt=\"izakaya\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been already 3 weeks since the pictures have been ready, but somehow, I forgot to post a link, so here it is: the traditional team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery\/alain-may2004\">party<\/a> for the visit of our regional manager in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>NT, Unix, networking, programming, you name it, the guy knows it all inside out!<br \/> Recently, he was even doing some troubleshooting, opening PCs to mount their hard drives on other machines, because of an unsuccessful patch on NT (did I mention how much I enjoy having a Mac at home?).<\/p>\n<p>How many top-level managers do you see do that recently?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#8217;s quite an amazing man (remind me to make him read that before the appraisal process at the end of the year!), and it&#8217;s always with great pleasure that I meet him, both professionally and personally speaking.<\/p>\n<p>It was also another shooting session for me, as I&#8217;m practising for Fred&#8217;s wedding to understand how to capture the atmosphere of a party, without killing the mood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve learnt this time: the key elements are a wide angle len to capture the whole scenes, fill-in flash to fix the subject and to have a good rendition of the ambient light, tilting the image to make it more dynamic and enjoying the party yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been already 3 weeks since the pictures have been ready, but somehow, I forgot to post a link, so here it is: the traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}