{"id":16937,"date":"2016-10-11T05:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T09:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16937"},"modified":"2016-10-08T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T20:27:12","slug":"downhill-co-derry-northern-ireland-shafts-of-light-with-some-ocean-side-cliffs-and-a-wee-nir-railcar-down-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/downhill-co-derry-northern-ireland-shafts-of-light-with-some-ocean-side-cliffs-and-a-wee-nir-railcar-down-below\/","title":{"rendered":"Downhill, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland\u2014Shafts of Light with some Ocean Side Cliffs (and a wee NIR railcar down below)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of Ireland\u2019s finest rail-side scenery is in the North. At Downhill, Co. Derry massive vertical cliffs rise high above the Belfast-Derry line, with the great expanse of the North Atlantic beyond.<\/p>\n

In October, lighting can be a bit tricky, as the same cliffs that make the scene and offer elevation also block the sun much of the day.<\/p>\n

One trick: filtered sun (that is with thin cloud) makes for a less contrasty scene. By carefully exposing for the shaft of light at the center of the image, and then impose a digital graduated neutral density filter at the top of the frame, I was able to produce a balanced over-all image.<\/p>\n

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A distant view where the subject is but a spec in a vast scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Using my 18-135 zoom, I’ve remained at the same cliff-side vantage point, but pulled back the focal length. Here the NI Railways 4001-series railcar is more prominent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The photographer’s quandary: with a wide view, you can include the ocean, but the cliffs seem smaller relative to the whole scene.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other afternoon, I made these photos with Denis McCabe and Stephen Hirsch which feature a Derry to Belfast NI Railways railcar. While I worked primarily with my FujiFilm X-T1, I also exposed a few 35mm colour slides using my old Canon EOS-3 with 100mm lens.<\/p>\n

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As of this posting, those slides remain latent (exposed, but unprocessed), so we\u2019ll need to wait to see if I got my exposure correct. (My notes read f7.1 at 1\/250th<\/sup> of a second, which is consistent with the reading from my Minolta Mark4 handheld light meter, but a bit on the dark side for the camera meter).<\/p>\n

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