{"id":19702,"date":"2017-11-07T04:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19702"},"modified":"2017-12-04T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:53:10","slug":"rome-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rome-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome on Film."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using my Nikon N90S with a Nikkor AF 35mm lens, I exposed these Provia 100F slides at Rome\u2019s Porta Maggiore in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I often expose color slides in addition to digital images.<\/p>\n<p>I scanned the slides using a Nikon scanner with VueScan software. My initial scans are made at very high resolution (4000 dots per inch or higher) and then using Lightroom I scaled these for internet presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Are these photos better than the digital images? I don\u2019t know. My film photos have different characteristics than the digital images. Also, I like to give slide shows and I find it\u2019s much easier and more satisfying to project original color slides than put together digital presentations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19700\" style=\"width: 1728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19700\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rome-on-film\/rome_tram_porta_maggiore_27sept2017_briansolomon590115\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?fit=1728%2C1157\" data-orig-size=\"1728,1157\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1509372260&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Brian_Solomon&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=\"Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Slide film works well in certain contrasty situations such as this one.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?fit=709%2C475\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?fit=474%2C317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19700\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?resize=474%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?w=1728 1728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?resize=709%2C475 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?resize=1022%2C684 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590115.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slide film works well in certain contrasty situations such as this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19701\" style=\"width: 1728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19701\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rome-on-film\/rome_tram_porta_maggiore_27sept2017_briansolomon590116\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?fit=1728%2C1157\" data-orig-size=\"1728,1157\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;LS-5000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1509372392&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Brian_Solomon&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=\"Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;An antique narrow gauge tram makes a station stop near a century&#8217;s old Roman wall at Porta Maggiore.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?fit=709%2C475\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?fit=474%2C317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19701\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?resize=474%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?w=1728 1728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?resize=709%2C475 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?resize=1022%2C684 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An antique narrow gauge tram makes a station stop near a centuries old Roman wall at Porta Maggiore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>For more on VueScan see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamrick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.hamrick.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1512485472590000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEBXL8TuW9inFUzV8mXomLTLinV8g\">www.hamrick.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using my Nikon N90S with a Nikkor AF 35mm lens, I exposed these Provia 100F slides at Rome\u2019s Porta Maggiore in September 2017. I often expose color slides in addition to digital images. I scanned the slides using a Nikon scanner with VueScan software. My initial scans are made at very high resolution (4000 dots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rome-on-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rome on Film.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19701,"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":[3814,4158,7,4417],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rome_tram_Porta_Maggiore_27Sept2017_BrianSolomon\u00a9590116.jpg?fit=1728%2C1157","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-57M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702"}],"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=19702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}