{"id":17875,"date":"2017-02-08T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17875"},"modified":"2017-02-05T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T13:26:23","slug":"amtraks-acela-express-train-2252-catches-the-glint-at-branford-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtraks-acela-express-train-2252-catches-the-glint-at-branford-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak’s Acela Express train 2252 catches the glint at Branford, Connecticut."},"content":{"rendered":"

I said. “Give it five minutes, that Acela ought to be along. The light’s nice, it would be a shame to waste it.”<\/p>\n

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Exposed manually using a Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera. 1\/1000th of a second at f7.1 ISO 400.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amtrak’s High Speed Trains in Acela service make for nice evening subjects since their stainless-steel bodies reflect the light well.<\/p>\n

Exposure can be a bit tricky. If you don’t compensate for the flash of glint, you might end up with a washed out photo (over exposed).<\/p>\n

Here’s a secret; anticipate the flash as being about 1.5 stops brighter than the ambient lighting and set your exposure manually rather than using one of the camera’s automatic settings.<\/p>\n

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I said. “Give it five minutes, that Acela ought to be along. The light’s nice, it would be a shame to waste it.” Amtrak’s High Speed Trains in Acela service make for nice evening subjects since their stainless-steel bodies reflect the light well. Exposure can be a bit tricky. If you don’t compensate for the … Continue reading Amtrak’s Acela Express train 2252 catches the glint at Branford, Connecticut.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17874,"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":[4067,2801,31,3302,745],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Acela_2252_Branford_glint_DSCF1053.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875"}],"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=17875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17875\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}