{"id":10077,"date":"2015-02-28T02:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T07:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2015-02-28T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T14:01:15","slug":"high-speed-ave-train-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/high-speed-ave-train-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed AVE Train from Above."},"content":{"rendered":"

I exposed this unusual angle of a RENFE high-speed AVE train at the modern Cordoba Station in September 2001.<\/p>\n

\"Cordoba,<\/a>
Cordoba, Spain. The reflection of the station skylight on the front of the train adds crucial highlights to the image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The train was paused. The challenge was using my Rolleiflex Model T to look over the railing and down on the train.<\/p>\n

The Rollei is a twin-lens reflex. Normally to compose an image you look down into the camera through a mirror and lens arrangement which\u00a0projects on an interior screen.<\/p>\n

If holding the camera at waist-level and looking down doesn\u2019t suit the situation, there\u2019s also a field-finder\u2014which is just a window the helps you gauge the rough limits of the image area.<\/p>\n

Neither of these tools were of any use to me when facing railing about six feet tall and my subject below me.<\/p>\n

So, I held the camera above me and looked up into to it. Composing a scene in reverse (as is always the case when looking in the Rollei) is difficult enough, but doing this while craning my neck was especially tricky.<\/p>\n

I made one exposure and a moment later the train accelerated away toward Seville.<\/p>\n

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I exposed this unusual angle of a RENFE high-speed AVE train at the modern Cordoba Station in September 2001. The train was paused. The challenge was using my Rolleiflex Model T to look over the railing and down on the train. The Rollei is a twin-lens reflex. Normally to compose an image you look down … Continue reading High-speed AVE Train from Above.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3814,4537,2508,2599,2600,2598,2506],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RENFE-AVE-at-Cordoba-Sept-2.jpg?fit=800%2C810","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2Cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}