{"id":752,"date":"2011-01-03T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=752"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:21:44","slug":"pic-of-the-day-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2011\/01\/03\/pic-of-the-day-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting Ice on a Tamarack Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another shot from the same day (as the last pic of the day). It was a warm December day and a fresh snowfall was melting and re-freezing into ice on the Tamarack trees (Larix Laricina<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The background is a completely natural artifact of having a large telephoto lens, leaving the aperture as open as possible, and having a fairly low quality lens. The telephoto focal length along with the wide open aperture (f5.6 in this case) made the background completely blurred out. The bright highlights become circles. If I had a much nicer lens, they might be softer-edged and not as distracting. I kind of like the way they turned out though. I suspect the little specks in them mean I had a lot of dust on the end of my lens.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another shot from the same day (as the last pic of the day). It was a warm December day and a fresh snowfall was melting and re-freezing into ice on the Tamarack trees (Larix Laricina). The background is a completely natural artifact of having a large telephoto lens, leaving the aperture as open as possible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,730,87,740],"tags":[935,932,929,928,937,921,934,933,923,926,931,927,936,925,922,415,162,930,924],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-macro-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-winter-2","tag-branch","tag-bright-highlights","tag-focal-length","tag-fresh-snowfall","tag-larch","tag-large-telephoto-lens","tag-larix-laricina","tag-little-specks","tag-low-quality-lens","tag-melting-ice","tag-open-aperture","tag-tamarack-branch","tag-tamarack-larch","tag-tamarack-trees","tag-telephoto-focal-length","tag-telephoto-lens","tag-trees","tag-warm-december","tag-wide-open-aperture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t