{"id":10540,"date":"2015-04-03T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2015-04-03T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T07:20:20","slug":"la-hulpe-station-at-night-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/la-hulpe-station-at-night-march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"La Hulpe Station at Night, March 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an evening last week, using my Lumix LX-7, I exposed this time exposure of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges\u2019s (Belgian National Railways or SNCB) Gare de La Hulpe.<\/p>\n<p>This railway line is being transformed from double track mainline line to a quad track line to facilitate an improved suburban service akin to the Paris RER.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10539\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/2015\/04\/03\/la-hulpe-station-at-night-march-2015\/la_hulpe_station_at_night_p1180447\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10539\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/la-hulpe-station-at-night-march-2015\/la_hulpe_station_at_night_p1180447\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?fit=750%2C501\" data-orig-size=\"750,501\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;287.86&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Brian Solomon&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6810.611752593&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;1.1610768429766&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed using a Panasonic Lumix LX7 set at ISO 80 at f1.7 for 5 seconds.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?fit=709%2C474\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?fit=474%2C317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?resize=474%2C317\" alt=\"Exposed using a Panasonic Lumix LX7 set at ISO 80 at f1.7 for 5 seconds.\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?w=750 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?resize=709%2C474 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?resize=449%2C300 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed using a Panasonic Lumix LX7 set at ISO 80 at f1.7 for 5 seconds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To make this image, I rested the camera on the bridge railing, exposed a pair of trial exposures to gauge the lighting conditions, then set the camera (shutter speed and aperture) manually to allow for sufficient exposure of the sky and shadow areas.<\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned on Tracking the Light, to make successful night photos it is important to give the scene sufficient exposure (usually 2\/3s of a stop more than allocated by many built-in camera meter settings), while keep the camera steady for the duration of the exposure. Keeping flare to a minimum is also helpful.<\/p>\n<p>See related articles:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-24P\" target=\"_blank\">Charleroi to La Hulpe.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1H\" target=\"_blank\">Lumix LX-3\u2014part 2: Existing Light Digital Night Shots.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">E<\/a><\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">very\u00a0morning<\/a><\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tracking the Light<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>posts\u00a0new\u00a0material<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please share\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking the Light<\/a><\/strong><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/\">http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an evening last week, using my Lumix LX-7, I exposed this time exposure of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges\u2019s (Belgian National Railways or SNCB) Gare de La Hulpe. This railway line is being transformed from double track mainline line to a quad track line to facilitate an improved suburban service akin to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/la-hulpe-station-at-night-march-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Hulpe Station at Night, March 2015.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10539,"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":[3786,575,7535,2325,2326,40,580],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/La_Hulpe_station_at_Night_P1180447.jpg?fit=750%2C501","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540"}],"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=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10584,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/10584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}