{"id":17853,"date":"2017-02-04T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17853"},"modified":"2017-02-03T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T02:32:40","slug":"drop-under-light-csx-q424-at-mitteneague-west-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/drop-under-light-csx-q424-at-mitteneague-west-springfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Under Light\u2014CSX Q424 at Mitteneague (West Springfield)."},"content":{"rendered":"

A dreary evening at Mitteneague in West Springfield, Massachusetts was briefly brightened by a wink of drop under sun.<\/p>\n

Luckily for me, at the very moment the trees in the distance were illuminated by this unexpected golden glow, I heard CSX\u2019s Selkirk to West Springfield manifest freight Q424 approaching.<\/p>\n

I exposed these trailing views with my 90mm f2.0 Fujinon lens.<\/p>\n

Below are two variations of each image; one is a JPG made from the RAW without interpretation, the other is an adjusted file to represent what I saw at the time of exposure.<\/p>\n

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This is a scaled JPG made from the Camera RAW file without interpretation. Compare this with the adjust file below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Image 2: To make for a more realistic and pleasing image, I adjusted the RAW file in Lightroom. Specifically I lightened the shadows while adjusting the blacks, alter the overall gamma (using the Clarity slider), and made a nominal increase in saturation. All changes were made globally (to the entire file).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scaled, but otherwise un-adjusted JPG made from camera RAW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Image 4: File adjusted in post processing using the same settings as the earlier image in the sequence (image 2).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera RAW files only represent the information (data) collected by the camera sensor, and rarely display an image as the scene actually appeared, thus the need for interpretation\/adjustment during post processing.<\/p>\n

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A dreary evening at Mitteneague in West Springfield, Massachusetts was briefly brightened by a wink of drop under sun. Luckily for me, at the very moment the trees in the distance were illuminated by this unexpected golden glow, I heard CSX\u2019s Selkirk to West Springfield manifest freight Q424 approaching. I exposed these trailing views with … Continue reading Drop Under Light\u2014CSX Q424 at Mitteneague (West Springfield).<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17850,"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],"tags":[3998,4060,4061,41,35,245,3308],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1-CSX_Q424_Mitteneague_West_Springfield_trailing_view_DSCF0888.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4DX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853"}],"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=17853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17854,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions\/17854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}