{"id":10518,"date":"2015-03-30T02:04:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T16:20:29","slug":"boeings-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/boeings-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s on the Streets of San Francisco."},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 1990, Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles pass on Carl\u00a0Street, just west of the Sunset Tunnel.<\/p>\n

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I exposed this photo on Kodachrome 25 slide film with my Nikon F3T and an f4.0 200mm Nikkor telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My intent was to show the streetcars against a backdrop of San Francisco gingerbread Victorian houses. Selecting the optimal exposure was tricky owing to the low-angle of the sun. I wanted to maintain the bright highlights without risk of under exposing the background.<\/p>\n

Although it is tempting in these situations to expose for the highlights, in this case I didn\u2019t want the unnatural \u2018nightmare\u2019 effect caused by surreal dark background.<\/p>\n

Unlike today, back then I\u2019d rely largely on my handheld Sekonic meter to gauge exposure. Although the F3T had a built in meter, I never found this to be sufficiently accurate to maintain consistent exposures with slide film.<\/p>\n

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In October 1990, Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles pass on Carl\u00a0Street, just west of the Sunset Tunnel. My intent was to show the streetcars against a backdrop of San Francisco gingerbread Victorian houses. Selecting the optimal exposure was tricky owing to the low-angle of the sun. I wanted to maintain the bright highlights without risk of … Continue reading Boeing\u2019s on the Streets of San Francisco.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10516,"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":[10,48],"tags":[7535,390,1976,99,97],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MUNI-on-Irving-St-SF-CA-Oct-1990-by-Brian-Solomon-175086.jpg?fit=750%2C1125","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2JE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518"}],"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=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10795,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions\/10795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}