{"id":19234,"date":"2017-08-31T05:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19234"},"modified":"2017-09-02T02:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T06:56:05","slug":"long-view-tara-mines-zinc-ore-train-at-malahide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/long-view-tara-mines-zinc-ore-train-at-malahide\/","title":{"rendered":"Long View: Tara Mines Zinc Ore Train at Malahide."},"content":{"rendered":"

On the morning of 25 August 2017, David Hegarty and I were in position at Malahide looking toward the old Great Northern Railway causeway to photograph a laden Tara Mines Zinc Ore Train led by Irish Rail class 071 locomotive number 077.<\/p>\n

I liked this location because it allowed me to picture the whole train in a scenic setting. As you can see the Tara Mines train is very short as demonstrated in this \u00a0broad-side view (if you are viewing on FB you may need to click on Tracking the Light for the full photo).<\/p>\n

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Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm XT1 fitted with an f2.0 90mm fixed telephoto.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To make this work I used a medium telephoto and then in post processing cropped the extraneous portions of the sky and water at top and bottom of the image.<\/p>\n

I also altered contrast, colour balance and colour saturation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not fully satisfied though, because the dark locomotive and dull wagons with relatively flat lighting tend to get lost in the overall scene.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Explores Photographic Technique Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the morning of 25 August 2017, David Hegarty and I were in position at Malahide looking toward the old Great Northern Railway causeway to photograph a laden Tara Mines Zinc Ore Train led by Irish Rail class 071 locomotive number 077. I liked this location because it allowed me to picture the whole train … Continue reading Long View: Tara Mines Zinc Ore Train at Malahide.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19235,"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":[10,48],"tags":[4333,21,1644,2650],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Irish_Rail_Tara_Mines_at_Malahide_DSCF8407-1.jpg?fit=1263%2C742","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-50e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234"}],"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=19234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19236,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions\/19236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}