{"id":2383,"date":"2017-10-11T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2017-10-08T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:58:11","slug":"the-miraculous-staircase-loretto-chapel-santa-fe-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"The Miraculous Staircase, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2382\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2382\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"The Miraculous Staircase\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Loretto-Chapel-HDR-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Miraculous Staircase (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the inside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loretto_Chapel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loretto Chapel<\/a> in Santa Fe, NM. \u00a0I took this image from the front, near the alter, looking towards the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorettochapel.com\/info\/staircase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miraculous Staircase<\/a>. \u00a0This is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-dynamic-range_imaging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HDR<\/a>\u00a0image composed of four separate exposures. \u00a0These were long exposures (up to 30 seconds) so it took a while to capture the images without people. \u00a0It seems there was always someone walking into the chapel, sitting listening to the recording, and then leaving.<\/p>\n<p>To capture the images I sat in a pew behind my camera with a cable release. \u00a0When the church was empty I would take an image. \u00a0More often than not, someone would walk into the image while the shutter was open. \u00a0It took 12 attempts to capture the four images I needed to create the HDR image.<\/p>\n<p>Loretto Chapel: N35 41 08.23 W105 56 15.06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the inside of the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, NM. \u00a0I took this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[625,634,635,618,624],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico","tag-loretto-chapel","tag-miraculous-staircase","tag-nm","tag-photography","tag-santa-fe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}