{"id":304,"date":"2015-05-31T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:52:34","slug":"manhattanhenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/2015\/304","title":{"rendered":"Manhattanhenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 2200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/photo\/feature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Manhattanhenge, as seen from across the East River\" src=\"http:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/photo\/feature\/Manhattangenge-Day-Sunset-Night-Pano.jpg\" alt=\"Manhattanhenge\" width=\"2200\" height=\"1659\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manhattanhenge, as seen from across the East River. Click to see the larger version in\u00a0a slide show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A term coined by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattanhenge\" target=\"_blank\">astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a>, Manhattanhenge is a twice-yearly event when a sunset lines up with the Manhattan street grid, around 8PM on May 29\/30 and July 12\/13.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0idea to put\u00a0Manhattanhenge\u00a0in the broader space-time context (as a part of the sweeping Midtown skyline, and sandwiched between the before and after shots of same)\u00a0was born out of my desire to\u00a0differentiate from\u00a0the common\u00a0portrayal of this phenomenon,\u00a0which is a closeup view of the setting sun&#8217;s disc,\u00a0flanked by a pair (or more) of Manhattan buildings silhouetted by the sun&#8217;s overpowering rays.<\/p>\n<p>I used a 12-24mm lens set to 12mm f\/10 on a full-frame dslr. To get the building detail together with the sunset, I\u00a0took a series of six bracketed exposures two f-stops apart from each other, at varying shutter speeds. These were HDR-processed into the final image.<\/p>\n<p>A diagonal dash\u00a0light spot directly above the Empire State Building is planet Venus. From my vantage point, Venus was in that position at 9PM. The length of the dash is the amount of the Earth&#8217;s rotation during my 30-second exposure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixels.com\/featured\/manhattanhenge-view-from-across-east-river-sasha-karasev.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can now buy<\/a> a\u00a0variety of\u00a0things with this image, ranging from a sleek\u00a0acrylic print to a classic framed one, or even a duvet cover! In doing so, you will be supporting my photographic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Manhattanhenge is a twice-yearly event when a sunset lines up with the Manhattan street grid, around 8PM on May 29\/30 and July 12\/13. The\u00a0idea to put\u00a0Manhattanhenge\u00a0in the broader space-time context (as a part of the sweeping Midtown skyline, and sandwiched between the before and after shots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/2015\/304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manhattanhenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[44,31,29,32,30,45],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-technique","tag-ideas","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattanhenge","tag-nyc","tag-skyline","tag-technique"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zc8o-4U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karasevstudio.com\/o2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}