{"id":375,"date":"2010-05-27T20:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2010-05-27T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:55:28","slug":"a-little-rusty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/a-little-rusty\/","title":{"rendered":"A little rusty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I took a short break this morning to clear my head and get back into this photography thing, so I headed over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/arboretum\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Guelph Arboretum<\/a> and went looking for flies. It became readily apparent that not picking up a camera for 8 months was going to make it a learning process all over again! And the first lesson? Charge your flash batteries! One shot into the day and I realize my SB-800 is dead in the water. Crap&#8230; luckily my shooting buddy also uses Nikon equipment, so while he was shooting I was collecting, and vice versa. Problems solved right? Well, lesson 2 quickly became apparent; check your settings! I had switched to shooting JPEG this winter for a family function! Crap&#8230; a quick switch back to RAW format with hope those first few shots were ok and won&#8217;t need much editing (JPEG files don&#8217;t handle heavy editing well) and back to work I go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_376\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Compsobata-univitta20100527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-376 \" title=\"Compsobata univitta - Micropezidae\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Compsobata-univitta20100527-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Compsobata univitta (Micropezidae) on green leaf\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Compsobata-univitta20100527-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Compsobata-univitta20100527-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Compsobata-univitta20100527.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, at least something worked out! (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rest of the morning was spent finding the body control and breathing necessary for macro work, and by lunch time I was feeling almost back into the swing of things! I definitely need to make the time to go out more regularly this summer, and remember, check, double check, and triple check your equipment each time you go out!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a short break this morning to clear my head and get back into this photography thing, so I headed over to the University of Guelph Arboretum and went looking for flies. 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