{"id":17669,"date":"2017-01-13T05:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17669"},"modified":"2017-01-11T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T01:33:56","slug":"new-brunswick-in-the-razor-shaft-of-glint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-brunswick-in-the-razor-shaft-of-glint\/","title":{"rendered":"New Brunswick in the Razor Shaft of Glint."},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the shoulder light is easy to work with but doesn\u2019t always make for the most dramatic images. When possible, I like to find dramatic lighting and to see what I can make of it.<\/p>\n

So here we have an unusual, captivating and difficult lighting situation.<\/p>\n

Looking down the New Brunswick, New Jersey station, fellow photographer Pat Yough and I found this brief shaft of light made by the setting winter sun.<\/p>\n

Luckily during the few minutes where sun penetrated New Jersey\u2019s concrete canyons we had a flurry of trains to catch the glint.<\/p>\n

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NJ Transit train 7004 has an electric at the back of the consist. I like the way a bit of reflected light catches the front of the engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The old Pennsylvania Railroad station at New Brunswick, New Jersey seems out of place with the modern buildings that now surround it. This view focuses on the classic architecture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NJ Transit 3856 is bound for New York City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Boxy double deck coaches make for an interesting composition. The stainless-steel sides catch the glint nicely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Amtrak train 186 races eastward through New Brunswick as NJ Transist 3937 departs the outbound platform.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made these images with my FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with a Lee 0.9 graduated neutral density filter to hold sky detail. I made nominal adjustments to shadow and highlight contrast to improve the overall appearance of the images.<\/p>\n

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

Over the shoulder light is easy to work with but doesn\u2019t always make for the most dramatic images. When possible, I like to find dramatic lighting and to see what I can make of it. So here we have an unusual, captivating and difficult lighting situation. Looking down the New Brunswick, New Jersey station, fellow … Continue reading New Brunswick in the Razor Shaft of Glint.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17667,"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":[4013,4012,1590,1826,217,92],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NJ_Transit_train_3856_eb_at_New_Brunswick_NJ_1-DSCF9538.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4AZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669"}],"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=17669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}