{"id":1374,"date":"2008-12-07T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2008-12-07T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T01:04:07","slug":"kokoen-in-himeji-%e5%a7%ab%e8%b7%af%e5%a5%bd%e5%8f%a4%e5%9c%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/kokoen-in-himeji-%e5%a7%ab%e8%b7%af%e5%a5%bd%e5%8f%a4%e5%9c%92\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokoen in Himeji \u59eb\u8def\u597d\u53e4\u5712"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1696trima.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1375\" title=\"kokoen next to himeji castle\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1696trima-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1696trima-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1696trima-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1696trima.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above picture was taken in the <em>Koukoen<\/em> next to Himeji Castle. You can see part of the castle walls in the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The reason you are seeing this photo today is a rather random one. I&#8217;ve been disappointed in my ability to take pictures so that the pictures look like what my eyes see. Frequently if I focus on my subject the sky turns a cloudless white even if it is blue or filled with lovely clouds. Alternatively, <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2008\/12\/another-foggy-morning\/\">if I focus on the sky my subject turns black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/victoriadailyphoto.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/market-square.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> and decided to give Photomatix a try. The above picture was my random test subject. Photomatix didn&#8217;t work on it though. For Photomatix to work you really have to take three pictures of the exact same scene using three different exposure settings. Since my camera (Canon PowerShot S3 IS) does have an Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB Mode) option I will give it a try in the future. However, all of my past pictures will have to remain in their whited-out sky state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above picture was taken in the Koukoen next to Himeji Castle. You can see part of the castle walls in the photograph. The reason you are seeing this photo today is a rather random one. I&#8217;ve been disappointed in my ability to take pictures so that the pictures look like what my eyes see. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[93,149,88,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}