{"id":17675,"date":"2017-01-14T05:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:08:55","slug":"nj-transit-with-soft-glint-a-lesson-in-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nj-transit-with-soft-glint-a-lesson-in-light\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transit with Soft Glint\u2014a Lesson in Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air pollution, fluffy clouds and very low sun can create some wonderful soft lighting.<\/p>\n

Evening glint is a fleeting ephemeral condition.<\/p>\n

The Northeast Corridor in central New Jersey is an ideal place to make use of soft glint.<\/p>\n

Long tangent sections of track, a favorable north-east to southwest alignment and ample quantities of air-pollution plus very frequent service, allow for excellent opportunities as the light shifts and fades.<\/p>\n

I made these photographs at Jersey Avenue in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

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Exposed using anFujiFilm X-T1 digital camera with 18-135mm lens. Camera set at ISO 1000, 1\/180 of a second at f7.1. Here I’ve set the white balance to ‘auto’, however typically I recommend that for glint photography a white balance setting for ‘daylight’ will yield redder more impressive photos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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ISO 1250, f5.6 1\/250th using the Fujifilm ‘Velvia’ color profile, with white balance set to ‘auto’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Getting the exposure right is crucial for successful glint photos.<\/p>\n

I usually use manual settings. I\u2019ve found that when exposing for glint light it is important pay careful attention to the highlight \u00a0and shadow areas.<\/p>\n

I avoid clipping the highlights (as result of over exposure), but also make sure that I don\u2019t stop down (reducing the amount of light reaching the sensor\u00a0) too much, which will make the shadows completely opaque.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts Every Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air pollution, fluffy clouds and very low sun can create some wonderful soft lighting. Evening glint is a fleeting ephemeral condition. The Northeast Corridor in central New Jersey is an ideal place to make use of soft glint. Long tangent sections of track, a favorable north-east to southwest alignment and ample quantities of air-pollution plus … Continue reading NJ Transit with Soft Glint\u2014a Lesson in Light<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17673,"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":[4010,4014,4015,1590,217],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NJ_Transit_Jersey_Avenue_DSCF9622.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4B5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675"}],"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=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}