{"id":142,"date":"2009-02-08T23:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T23:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/ThisIsGoingToTakeSomePractice.aspx"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:25:52","slug":"this-is-going-to-take-some-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/08\/this-is-going-to-take-some-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"This is going to take some practice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and a faster shutter speed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/470011029_3XsYK-M.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made my first attempt to take pictures of Finney playing in the yard today, but most of the results were blurry. In retrospect I should have set the camera to shutter priority before getting him worked up (I just used full auto for my first try to see what came of it). When trying to chase a dog who can go over 40 Mph it\u2019s just not going to cut it if your shutter speed is 1\/90. Um duh. Oh, also, if you&#8217;re chasing a fast dog with a camera, you better not be worried about looking like an idiot. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/470010210_CYPy5-S.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/470009951_xaqJH-S.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not romping, Finney\u2019s preferred place is Velcroed to my thigh.<\/p>\n<p>Another photographic note for myself: If I want a keeper picture, don\u2019t wear an old sweatshirt with frayed sleeves. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and a faster shutter speed. I made my first attempt to take pictures of Finney playing in the yard today, but most of the results were blurry. In retrospect I should have set the camera to shutter priority before getting him worked up (I just used full auto for my first try to see\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idledogs","tag-idledogs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/470011029_3XsYK-M.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}