{"id":11749,"date":"2017-08-01T00:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:01:51","slug":"11749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=11749","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs\" width=\"333\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs.jpg 333w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/randywells_2015-10-04-01-salt_mpgs-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 85vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE STORY BEHIND THE SHOT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summer&#8217;s here and it&#8217;s time for a blistering image that has an interesting back story.<\/p>\n<p>Bonneville Salt Flats is ground zero for land speed records. It&#8217;s also a cooker in the summer. The white surface acts like a huge reflector that throws light everywhere. This portrait is one example. <\/p>\n<p>I had set up a flash to camera right and was ready to set my exposure. I fired a test shot, but it was way overexposed at 1\/13 of a second. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yet, when I went to edit the take later, this shot stood out from the rest, even with its slight subject movement. The apocalyptic-like image has gone on to become one of my most well-known images. It led off my 2016 MPG award-winning feature as well. Can&#8217;t wait to go back!<\/p>\n<p>Canon 5D Mk III, 16-35 mm f4L IS at 33mm, 1\/13 sec, f\/14 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE STORY BEHIND THE SHOT Summer&#8217;s here and it&#8217;s time for a blistering image that has an interesting back story. Bonneville Salt Flats is ground zero for land speed records. It&#8217;s also a cooker in the summer. The white surface acts like a huge reflector that throws light everywhere. This portrait is one example. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=11749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,3,7,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}