{"id":19668,"date":"2017-11-01T05:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:36:32","slug":"sunburst-on-the-boston-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunburst-on-the-boston-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunburst on the Boston & Maine."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alternatively, I could call this Tracking the Light post, \u201828N at Millers Falls.\u2019<\/p>\n

Whichever you like.<\/p>\n

So what do you do in a situation where a train is coming directly out of the midday sun?<\/p>\n

You could<\/p>\n

1) give up.<\/p>\n

2) go for a sandwich.<\/p>\n

3) take up plane spotting.<\/p>\n

4) all of the above.<\/p>\n

Or you can try something different.<\/p>\n

The other day at Millers Falls, Massachusetts I exposed these views looking timetable west on the old Boston & Maine. Train 28N is an eastward autorack destined for Ayer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Using a super wide-angle 12mm Zeiss Touit, I set the aperture to the smallest setting (f22), which produces a sunburst effect. To make the most of this effect, I positioned an autumn branch between the camera and the sun.<\/p>\n

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12mm Zeiss Touit, ISO 800, f22 at 1\/125th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light posts Daily.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Alternatively, I could call this Tracking the Light post, \u201828N at Millers Falls.\u2019 Whichever you like. So what do you do in a situation where a train is coming directly out of the midday sun? You could 1) give up. 2) go for a sandwich. 3) take up plane spotting. 4) all of the above. … Continue reading Sunburst on the Boston & Maine.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[],"tags":[242,2026,7535,104,88,883,2715],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NS_6905_28N_w_sunburst_Millers_Falls_MA_DSCF0347.jpg?fit=1155%2C1732","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-57e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668"}],"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=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19669,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions\/19669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}