{"id":18532,"date":"2017-05-21T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18532"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:59:29","slug":"framing-irish-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/framing-irish-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing Irish Rail."},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a 1940s paperback title.<\/p>\n

But an exercise in making better photos on overcast days.<\/p>\n

Last month, two days in a row I hoofed it up to Blackhorse Avenue following\u00a0the good advice of fellow photographer Colm O\u2019Callaghan in order to make photos of Irish Rail’s class 071 diesel- hauled trains.<\/p>\n

Blackhorse bridges\u00a0Irish Rail’s branch the connects Islandbridge Junction with Dublin\u2019s North Wall via the Phoenix Park tunnel. The north-facing portal is just out of sight around the corner in the cutting.<\/p>\n

This is a nice place to make photos of Dublin-bound trains bright overcast days. Elevation allows me to minimize the sky, while an old stone-faced overbridge makes an effective frame that adds depth and historical interest to the photos.<\/p>\n

Both were exposed using my FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera fitted with a fixed focal length (\u2018prime\u2019) 90mm telephoto lens. One makes use of the landscape (horizontal) orientation, the other is a portrait (vertically) oriented photograph.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail number 075 leads an empty spoil train toward Dublin’s North Wall on 27 April 2017. FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Irish Rail 081 with the Up-IWT liner from Ballina, County Mayo. FujiFilm XT1 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Which photo do you feel is more interesting?<\/p>\n

And yes, I also made black & white photos of these trains.<\/p>\n

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Not a 1940s paperback title. But an exercise in making better photos on overcast days. Last month, two days in a row I hoofed it up to Blackhorse Avenue following\u00a0the good advice of fellow photographer Colm O\u2019Callaghan in order to make photos of Irish Rail’s class 071 diesel- hauled trains. Blackhorse bridges\u00a0Irish Rail’s branch the … Continue reading Framing Irish Rail.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18531,"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":[4198,4199,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Irish_Rail_075_with_Spoil_train_at_Blackhorse_Ave_tight_DSCF4720.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4OU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532"}],"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=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18533,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions\/18533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}