{"id":18100,"date":"2017-04-01T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18100"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:11:51","slug":"why-not-include-a-bit-of-foreground-to-add-depth-and-make-a-more-interesting-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/why-not-include-a-bit-of-foreground-to-add-depth-and-make-a-more-interesting-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not include a bit of foreground to add depth and make a more interesting image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often railway images lack depth owning to a tendency to place all the elements of the scene near or at infinity (from the perspective of camera focus).<\/p>\n<p>Consider including closer elements to add a bit depth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18099\" style=\"width: 1816px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18099\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/why-not-include-a-bit-of-foreground-to-add-depth-and-make-a-more-interesting-image\/brian_solomon_333140\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?fit=1816%2C1101\" data-orig-size=\"1816,1101\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Exposed on Fomapan 100 using a Leica IIIa with 35mm Nikkor lens. Film processed in Ilford Perceptol (stock solution, mixed from powder) for 6 minutes at 68 degrees F. Negatives toned with selenium solution mixed 1 to 9 with water for 7 minutes. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?fit=709%2C430\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?fit=474%2C288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18099\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?resize=474%2C287\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?w=1816 1816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?resize=205%2C124 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?resize=709%2C430 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?resize=1022%2C620 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exposed on Fomapan 100 using a Leica IIIa with 35mm Nikkor lens. Film processed in Ilford Perceptol (stock solution, mixed from powder) for 6 minutes at 68 degrees F. Negatives toned with selenium solution mixed 1 to 9 with water for 7 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here the fences, which would often be viewed as obstructions, have been used to make for a more interesting image, which, by the way, tells a story about the location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Tracking the Light is on autopilot while Brian is traveling by train.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often railway images lack depth owning to a tendency to place all the elements of the scene near or at infinity (from the perspective of camera focus). Consider including closer elements to add a bit depth. Here the fences, which would often be viewed as obstructions, have been used to make for a more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/why-not-include-a-bit-of-foreground-to-add-depth-and-make-a-more-interesting-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why not include a bit of foreground to add depth and make a more interesting image?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18099,"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":true,"_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":[3814,3938,4110,1669,21,62],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_333140.jpg?fit=1816%2C1101","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100"}],"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=18100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18186,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18100\/revisions\/18186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}