{"id":16617,"date":"2016-09-07T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16617"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:17:35","slug":"california-sunrise-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/california-sunrise-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"California Sunrise\u2014August 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

The sinuous alignment of the old Southern Pacific in the Tehachapis is ideally suited to lining up sunrise photographs.<\/p>\n

A blanket of airborne particulates filtered the rising sun, softening the light and giving it a luminous golden tint.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, I made many glint photos on Kodachrome. This one I exposed digitally and adjusted contrast in post processing to make for a more pleasing image.<\/p>\n

Where K25 slide film would have retained the ring of the sun, now I have to settle for a golden blob of light.<\/p>\n

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BNSF symbol freight Z-LPKNBY7-05L (priority intermodal train from Logistics Park Kansas City to North Bay, California) catches the glint at Caliente, California. ISO 200 at f20 1\/500th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A key to making an image such as this one is manually setting the aperture to control the amount of light reaching the sensor. I metered manually and ignored the camera\u2019s recommended exposure, which wouldn’t have given me the desired effect.<\/p>\n

Since I was preparing a classic silhouette, I wasn\u2019t interested in retaining detail in the shadows, but instead aimed to hold tonality in the sky.<\/p>\n

Where my \u2018normal\u2019 daylight exposure with ISO 200 is about f8 1\/500th<\/sup> of second, for this photo, I closed down the aperture to f20, which made for two and half stops less exposure.<\/p>\n

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The sinuous alignment of the old Southern Pacific in the Tehachapis is ideally suited to lining up sunrise photographs. A blanket of airborne particulates filtered the rising sun, softening the light and giving it a luminous golden tint. In the 1990s, I made many glint photos on Kodachrome. This one I exposed digitally and adjusted … Continue reading California Sunrise\u2014August 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16616,"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":[3790,3789,820,80,1090],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BNSF_nb_Sunrise_Caliente_DSCF2768.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617"}],"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=16617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16621,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions\/16621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}