{"id":17967,"date":"2017-02-25T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2017-02-24T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:23:06","slug":"in-the-dark-30-seconds-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/in-the-dark-30-seconds-five-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Dark: 30 Seconds, Five Years Ago."},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 25, 2012, I exposed this 30-second exposure at New England Central\u2019s yard in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

I mounted my Lumix LX7 on heavy tripod, and actuated the shutter using the self-timer to minimize vibration. Note the effect of the clouds moving.<\/p>\n

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This is a scaled JPG made from the unaltered Lumix LX3 JPG\u00a0file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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By adjusting exposure and contrast in the RAW file I was able to produce this improved version. Notice the detail in the shadow areas that was lost in the JPG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite the long exposure, the resulting digital image was still too dark and required work in post-processing using Lightroom.<\/p>\n

In addition to lightening shadow areas, I also lightened the entire exposure by about full-stop, while controlling highlights and softening overall contrast.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Posts Every Day.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 25, 2012, I exposed this 30-second exposure at New England Central\u2019s yard in Palmer, Massachusetts. I mounted my Lumix LX7 on heavy tripod, and actuated the shutter using the self-timer to minimize vibration. Note the effect of the clouds moving. Despite the long exposure, the resulting digital image was still too dark and … Continue reading In the Dark: 30 Seconds, Five Years Ago.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17966,"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":[48],"tags":[4083,3924,104,81,40,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/P1260267.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4FN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967"}],"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=17967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17969,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17967\/revisions\/17969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}