{"id":1353,"date":"2011-07-06T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2011-07-06T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:54:00","slug":"red-hot-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Red Hot Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I exaggerate slightly. But too hot to hold.<\/p>\n

As I’ve written before, I still stick to a rather relaxed regime for filing work, preferring to have had a good look at my images on a large colour-corrected screen and making any necessary adjustments – burning, dodging and occasionally even a slight crop – before sending them out into the world.<\/p>\n

So last night as usual, I got home, powered up the computer, put the CF card into the reader, added a few keywords to the Lightroom <\/em>input dialogue, clicked on import and then went downstairs to pour out a glass of a rather decent southern French red and start on dinner. Fortunately before I picked up my knife and fork, I remembered something else I needed to do and went back upstairs, to be greeted by the acrid smell of bien cuit<\/em> bakelite and an error message on the screen telling me that a USB device was malfunctioning. A small wisp of smoke confirmed this.<\/p>\n

I picked up the card reader and immediately dropped it again – it really was too hot to hold – then pulled out the plug and holding the reader by its cooler edges, away from any components, held the card also by its cooler edge and pulled it out.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what temperature a CF card has to reach for meltdown, but I was certainly very worried at that point that I had fried my pictures.\u00a0 Fortunately I had a spare card reader handy and was able to plug that in.\u00a0 A couple of minutes later I sighed with relief as the drive opened on screen and I saw a complete list of files, and even more relief when images appeared in Lightroom’s import.\u00a0 This time I watched to make sure the import started properly before going down for dinner.<\/p>\n

\"\u00a9<\/p>\n

One or two of the pictures weren’t bad, and together with the story\u00a0NHS 63rd Birthday March in London<\/a> they were on Demotix <\/em>before I went to bed just a little after midnight. But I’ll probably write more about them in a week or two after I’ve put them and some more on My London Diary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nCelebrating the 63rd Birthday of the NHS at the Houses of Parliament<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I exaggerate slightly. But too hot to hold. As I’ve written before, I still stick to a rather relaxed regime for filing work, preferring to have had a good look at my images on a large colour-corrected screen and making any necessary adjustments – burning, dodging and occasionally even a slight crop – before … Continue reading Red Hot Pictures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}