{"id":16932,"date":"2016-10-18T05:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2016-10-07T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:02:31","slug":"sun-on-the-old-southern-pacific-coast-line-july-28-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sun-on-the-old-southern-pacific-coast-line-july-28-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun on the old Southern Pacific Coast Line\u2014July 28, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I spent a pleasant afternoon exploring the old Southern Pacific Coast Line between Simi Valley and Moorpark, California.<\/p>\n

At CP Madera, I ascended this cutting and made a series of digital photographs of passing passenger trains.<\/p>\n

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This was not what I expected: an Amtrak ‘Cabbage’ (a former F40PH diesel converted as a cab-car with baggage compartment) and single-level Horizon cars with a Genesis diesel pushing at the back. Amtrak A790 was\u00a0far cry from the typical Pacific Surfliner consist that features\u00a0an F59PHI and Bilevel cars. File converted from a Camera RAW using Lightroom to adjust contrast and lighten shadow areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trailing view of Amtrak Pacific Surfline A790 at CP Madera, near Simi Valley, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I made this photo with the camera set in the ‘Velvia’ colour profile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A few minutes after Amtrak A790 rolled past, Metrolink 117 from Los Angeles came the other way. Here I’ve used a telephoto perspective to make the most of the setting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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As the train approached, I used the zoom lens, pulling back my focal length to a slight wide angle view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The view looking west into the evening sun was exceptionally contrasty. So in post processing I lightened the shadows, darkened the sky and lowered the contrast in a effort to produce a more pleasing image. Also, on site I’d shaded the front element of my lens with my notebook. If you look carefully, you can just see the fringe of my notebook cover in the sky. I’ve left this imperfection in, rather than crop it out, so that you can get a sense for what I was doing.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These were exposed using my Fujifilm XT1 with 18-135mm zoom lens. I calculated the light using the camera\u2019s center weighted meter and set aperture and shutter speed settings manually. Although bright, exposures can be tricky, especially when dealing with flat white locomotives.<\/p>\n

It was a real pleasure to make photos in the warm California sun. (As recall, while sitting in Dublin on damp evening composing \u2018Auto Pilot\u2019 posts for Tracking the Light!)<\/p>\n

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Last summer, I spent a pleasant afternoon exploring the old Southern Pacific Coast Line between Simi Valley and Moorpark, California. At CP Madera, I ascended this cutting and made a series of digital photographs of passing passenger trains. These were exposed using my Fujifilm XT1 with 18-135mm zoom lens. I calculated the light using the … Continue reading Sun on the old Southern Pacific Coast Line\u2014July 28, 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16927,"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":[48],"tags":[3868,31,80,3744,749,3711,3715],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Metrolink_117_at_CP_Madera_DSCF0666.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932"}],"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=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16933,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}