{"id":18726,"date":"2017-06-20T05:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18726"},"modified":"2017-06-20T07:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:17:44","slug":"mbta-in-the-summer-a-lesson-in-midday-high-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-in-the-summer-a-lesson-in-midday-high-light\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA in the Summer; a Lesson in Midday High-Light."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the discerning photographer, summer midday high-light presents difficulties with contrast and deep shadows.<\/p>\n

In my Kodachrome days, I\u2019d put the camera away from 10 am to after 2 pm during June-July. Kodachrome\u2019s palate and contrast didn\u2019t work with midday high-light and the slides would suffer from inky shadows, exceptionally harsh contrast, and bleached highlights.<\/p>\n

Using digital photography and post processing, I can overcome some of the difficulties presented by summer high sun by adjusting color temperature and carefully controlling highlight and shadow detail.<\/p>\n

Another tool is the external graduated neutral density filter. By attaching one of these filters to the front of the lens, I can darken the sky to better hold highlight detail and color saturation, while lightening the lower portions of the image area to make for a better balanced exposure and increasing the relative amount of data captured.<\/p>\n

Final adjustment is still required in post processing to lighten shadows.<\/p>\n

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MBTA train 1403 from North Station, Boston passes Shirley, Massachusetts. I’ve lightened the shadows and controlled the highlights to make for a better balanced image. The lighting is still straight up, but the effect is less objectionable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In both this view an the above image, I’ve used a graduated neutral density filter to hold sky detail and color saturation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In this view high clouds have slight softened the sun at MBTA’s Wachesett Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This scene would have been a nightmare with Kodachrome. Bright whites in the foreground, dark green trees at the sides and noon time sun! Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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For the discerning photographer, summer midday high-light presents difficulties with contrast and deep shadows. In my Kodachrome days, I\u2019d put the camera away from 10 am to after 2 pm during June-July. Kodachrome\u2019s palate and contrast didn\u2019t work with midday high-light and the slides would suffer from inky shadows, exceptionally harsh contrast, and bleached highlights. … Continue reading MBTA in the Summer; a Lesson in Midday High-Light.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18724,"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":[3786,4234,4235,4233,104,790,3100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MBTA_F40PH-2_1069_at_Wachusett_DSCF5812.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4S2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726"}],"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=18726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18731,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18726\/revisions\/18731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}