{"id":15298,"date":"2025-01-26T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=15298"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:38:13","slug":"swan-lake-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/swan-lake-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Lake Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found a geared tripod head on Facebook Marketplace. It was a pretty good deal so I picked it up to use for commercial use as well as macro photography. To test it out, I thought I would walk around Swan Lake Park and take some close up images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"15297\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70868.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70868.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70868-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70868-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"15296\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70848.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70848.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70848-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70848-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70848-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"15295\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70821-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70821-Edit.jpg 692w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70821-Edit-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"15294\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70813-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70813-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"15293\" src=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70811.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70811.jpg 683w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20250119-_AZ70811-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Short answer is: I probably bought the wrong head. I did save about $100, and the head will be useful for other types of photography, but it is a bit limited for landscape or outdoor macro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe in the future I will look at upgrading to a better geared head. but in the mean time, I will probably stick with my ball head for walkabout images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a geared tripod head on Facebook Marketplace. It was a pretty good deal so I picked it up to use for commercial use as well as macro photography. To test it out, I thought I would walk around Swan Lake Park and take some close up images. Short answer is: I probably bought [&hellip;]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}