{"id":15826,"date":"2016-06-28T05:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15826"},"modified":"2016-06-29T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:34:17","slug":"acela-coming-and-going-alternative-views-at-madison-connecticut-june-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/acela-coming-and-going-alternative-views-at-madison-connecticut-june-23-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Acela Coming and Going; Alternative Views at Madison, Connecticut-June 23, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

On a previous visit to Madison, Connecticut, I noted that a long lens would work well in the curve east of the Shore Line East station.<\/p>\n

In earlier posts, I presented examples of Amtrak\u2019s Acela <\/em> against a sunset sky; and a wide-angle view of it blitzing the station. See; Acela Sunset: Miracles of Digital by working with a RAW File<\/a>\u00a0and Amtrak Acela at Speed; when one thousandth of a second isn\u2019t fast enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other day Pat Yough showed me some examples he made with his digital Nikon of trains glinting in the curve at Madison. Since to emulate this effort, I\u2019d require a longer focal length lens than I have for my FujiFilm X-T1, I opted to fire up my Canon 7D with a 200mm lens, and joined Pat for another evening\u2019s photography on the Shore Line route.<\/p>\n

Often I find that by making repeated trips through the same territory will allow me to make the most of my photography. I can learn where the light and shadow fall, how the railroad operates, and how to work with the various elements at hand to make the most effective images. If I miss something or make a mistake on one trip; I learn from it and armed with this knowledge try again.<\/p>\n

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I made this dramatic glint photo using my Canon EOS 7D with a 200mm lens. The camera’s smaller sensor size contributes to the telescopic effect. If I were using a 35mm film camera, this view would required a lens length of approximately 280mm. [Update; I’ve been given a revised figure of 320mm based upon Canon’s conversion 1.6 factor.]<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A trailing view of Amtrak’s Boston-bound Acela (train 2168) at the same curve in Madison, Connecticut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this situation, I needed a longer lens to make the image work. However since the sun is only sets on the north side of the tracks here for a few weeks, I needed to act while the light was right.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a previous visit to Madison, Connecticut, I noted that a long lens would work well in the curve east of the Shore Line East station. In earlier posts, I presented examples of Amtrak\u2019s Acela against a sunset sky; and a wide-angle view of it blitzing the station. See; Acela Sunset: Miracles of Digital by … Continue reading Acela Coming and Going; Alternative Views at Madison, Connecticut-June 23, 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15823,"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":[3786,2801,31,1590,3596,3627],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Amtrak_Acela_2168_glint_Madison_Ct_IMG_6996-2.jpg?fit=2367%2C1689","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-47g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826"}],"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=15826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15862,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions\/15862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}