{"id":748,"date":"2007-09-24T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:31:37","slug":"photos-miami-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-miami-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_remix_jada_miami1.jpg\" alt=\"w_bvong_remix_jada_miami1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Miami was a fun but really expensive city. Went down there and saw how a professional photographer shot in an environment just made for photos. I was actually more amazed at his story, a model in the 1980&#8217;s, turned house music DJ, to photographer. The photos that I took (leeched) off the side should hopefully make for some good drawings. I know you guys are thinking, geez, another outing with somebody, and more silly photos to further add to the narcissism that every kid expresses on their webpages. I tend to think of it as a learning experience along with having fun. Who knew that an on camera speedlight combined with a Tokina lens could create such bright and colorful images? Who knew that police officers now don&#8217;t drive Lambos\u00a0or Ferraris, but Aston Martin DB9&#8217;s?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"749\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-miami-2\/w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2jpg\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-749\" title=\"w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/w_bvong_remix_jada_miami2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami was a fun but really expensive city. Went down there and saw how a professional photographer shot in an environment just made for photos. I was actually more amazed at his story, a model in the 1980&#8217;s, turned house music DJ, to photographer. The photos that I took (leeched) off the side should hopefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[287],"class_list":{"0":"post-748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-photos","10":"post-with-thumbnail","11":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/000.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-c4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":759,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-speedlight-in-a-softbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":748,"position":0},"title":"Photos: Speedlight in a Softbox","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"October 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Learned a thing or two in Miami and got a chance to try it out with my own setup.\u00a0\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0others on the web, it's\u00a0quite easy to shoot using a\u00a0remote speedlight (a flash)\u00a0in a softbox. 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