{"id":192,"date":"2010-02-06T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg"},"modified":"2010-02-06T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:19:47","slug":"horse-shoe-bend-arizona-the-obligatory-shot-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/into-utah\/horse-shoe-bend-arizona-the-obligatory-shot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona &#8212; the obligatory shot"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"class_list":["post-192","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-300x199.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona -- the obligatory shot\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-600x398.jpg 600w, http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After showing what Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona looks like in fog and snow in a photo yesterday, I returned today for the more conventional shot.<\/p>\n<p>There are two major challenges in addition to the need for a very wide angle lens &#8212; to include the whole river, you need to lean out over a 1,000-ft precipice, and the difference between the bright sun-lit areas and the dark shadows is at least seven EVs.<\/p>\n<p>I suffer from moderate vertigo, and when I approached the edge of the cliff even on my belly, I began to feel dizzy and nauseous &#8212; unlike a group of Japanese tourists who simply stood at the edge and leaned over. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, I solved both problems by extending my tripod like a long pole, and running it out over the edge while I lay a couple feet back from the edge holding it. I took five bracked exposures using a cable release, and combined them in Photomatix. You still see the shadow, but it&#8217;s less heavy, though still looks natural.<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona &#8211; \u00a9 Richard McGuire<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona -- the obligatory shot","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":"1504","height":"1000","hwstring_small":"height='85' width='128'","file":"2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","source_url":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-300x199.jpg","width":"300","height":"199","source_url":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-300x199.jpg"},"large":{"file":"20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-600x398.jpg","width":"600","height":"398","source_url":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1-600x398.jpg"},"full":{"file":"20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg","width":1504,"height":1000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20091231-_DSC7198_199_200_201_202bred1.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"11","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D300","caption":"After showing what Horse Shoe Bend, Arizona looks like in fog and snow in a photo yesterday, I returned today for the more conventional shot.\r\rThere are two major challenges in addition to the need for a very wide angle lens -- to include the whole river, you need to lean out over a 1,000-ft precipice, and the difference between the bright sun-lit areas and the dark shadows is at least seven EVs.\r\rI suffer from moderate vertigo, and when I approached the edge of the cliff even on my belly, I began to feel dizzy and nauseous -- unlike a group of Japanese tourists who simply stood at the edge and leaned over. \r\rIn the end, I solved both problems by extending my tripod like a long pole, and running it out over the edge while I lay a couple feet back from the edge holding it. 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