{"id":1519,"date":"2013-02-28T05:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2013-03-11T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:56:08","slug":"budapest-keleti-station-august-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/budapest-keleti-station-august-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest Keleti Station, August 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A MAV<\/a> InterCity Train basks under sodium and mercury vapor light at Budapest<\/a> Keleti Station; exposed with a Nikon<\/a> F3T and f.1.8 105mm lens on Fujichrome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the Ghost of the old Hapsburg Empire<\/strong><\/p>\n

I selected this image of Budapest Keleti Station as part of a exhibition of more than twenty of my photographs titled Silver & Steel that made its debut in November 2008 at the GONe Studio. I exposed it at the beginning of an Eastern European rail adventure that ultimately brought me across Hungary, through Romania<\/a> to Vlad Tepe\u2019s birthplace, over the Carpathians<\/a> and then into eastern Ukraine<\/a>. Keleti or \u2018Eastern\u2019 Station is a principle Hungarian terminus for international rail travel; it\u2019s a classic railway temple featuring a magnificent train shed that faces the city through an enormous fan-shaped window.<\/p>\n

The trick to getting this dramatic angle was working my old Nikon F3T with its detachable prism. I focused manually, then removed the prism, and laid the camera on the platform, fine-tuning composition looking down on the mirror image while using a combination of Euro coins to prop up the lens. During exposure, I used my notebook to shade the front element from flare. To minimize vibration, I set the self-timer and stood back. My faithful Minolta IV light meter was key to calculating base exposure, but I then added a full stop to compensate for the cavernous quality of the train shed and the film\u2019s reciprocity failure (owing to long exposure time). I made several exposures, most of which came out blurred because of nominal camera vibration. Ultimately, I locked up the F3T\u2019s mirror for this final image.<\/p>\n

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