{"id":3357,"date":"2011-07-08T16:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2011-06-19T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T00:09:42","slug":"caterpillar-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/07\/caterpillar-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3772trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3772trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"caterpillar trail mountain bike riding siskiyou mountains ashland oregon\" title=\"caterpillar mountain bike riding siskiyou mountains ashland oregon\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3772trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3772trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3772trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3773trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3773trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"siskiyou mountains bike racing\" title=\"mountain biker\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3773trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3773trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3773trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3774trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3774trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"caterpillar trail ashland watershed\" title=\"ashland oregon mountain biking\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3774trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3774trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DSC_3774trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back on <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/06\/happy-fathers-day\/>father&#8217;s day<\/a> I was trying out my 24mm prime lens while on a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/siskiyou-mountain-biking\/>bike ride up in the Siskiyous<\/a>. As luck would have it, just as I got my D7000 out of the bag to take a photo of the Caterpillar Trail sign, a few riders came down so I got to test out the responsiveness in low light.<\/p>\n<p>For the first rider I had the dial in the &#8220;Auto-No Flash&#8221; mode and didn&#8217;t have time to change it. Needless to say he blurred a bit as they were coming down the trail fast. That first shot was taken with a shutter speed of 1\/160, ISO200, f6.3. I had a few seconds to adjust for the second guy pictured above. I quickly spun the dial over to Scene and then moved the scene to &#8220;sports.&#8221; I then fired off the above three shots in rapid succession. The camera fired at 1\/1000 with an ISO of 500 and f4. I was pleased with the result of three well focused, sharp images (in poor light even), with a frozen rider in each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on father&#8217;s day I was trying out my 24mm prime lens while on a bike ride up in the Siskiyous. As luck would have it, just as I got my D7000 out of the bag to take a photo of the Caterpillar Trail sign, a few riders came down so I got to test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13,11,10],"tags":[24,397,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}