{"id":1758,"date":"2014-09-03T01:23:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2015-08-18T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T05:01:48","slug":"hong-kong-wrapped-in-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/hong-kong-wrapped-in-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Wrapped in Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an amazing sunset over HK this evening and I am soooo happy I took my camera to the office today.  I used some HDR effect on the pic to try out that application I&#8217;ve just purchased (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdrsoft.com\" title=\"Photomatix, HDR application\">Photomatix<\/a>) and the results came out even better than I expected: it really looks like the city is flowing with gold!  I&#8217;m usually not a big fan of HDR when it&#8217;s over-used but when it helps re-balancing overexposed skies or dark foregrounds, I&#8217;m all for it!<\/p>\n<p>I was introduced to this technique when I was in Iceland but back then, I was trying to do it the hardcore way masking the upper part of the lens (with mixed results I must say).  It&#8217;s just so much easier to do it with an application now, even though it does introduce some small artefacts if you&#8217;re picky.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to go to New Zealand and to Myanmar later this year and hopefully feed this blog with more updates!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/gallery3\/index.php\/world\/hongkong\/hk-vrac\/0G3B8058_59_60_HDR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0G3B8058_59_60_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"HK wrapped in gold\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0G3B8058_59_60_HDR.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0G3B8058_59_60_HDR-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HK wrapped in gold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an amazing sunset over HK this evening and I am soooo happy I took my camera to the office today. I used some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[422,110,109,81,106,108,477],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-buildings","tag-cityscape","tag-hdr","tag-hk","tag-hong-kong","tag-sunset","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}