{"id":19933,"date":"2017-12-04T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19933"},"modified":"2017-12-03T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T23:24:59","slug":"bnsf-in-the-feather-river-canyon-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bnsf-in-the-feather-river-canyon-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF in the Feather River Canyon-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 30, 2003, I spent a day photographing BNSF and Union Pacific trains on the old Western Pacific route through California\u2019s Feather River Canyon.<\/p>\n

This exceptionally scenic route has long been a popular place to picture trains.<\/p>\n

Although photogenic, one of the conceptual problems with the canyon making the balance between train and scenery work.<\/p>\n

Too much train, and the canyon becomes a sideshow. Too much canyon and the train is lost in the scenery.<\/p>\n

One way to make balanced is through the clever use of lighting.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I\u2019ve done here.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Kodak 120-size Tri-X using a Rolleiflex Model T with a Zeiss Tessar; processed in Ilfotec HC, and scanned using an Epson V750. Final contrast adjustments were made in Lightroom to emphasize highlights and lighten shadows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve pictured an eastward BNSF climbing through Rich Bar, and by back lighting the train, I\u2019ve helped emphasize it\u2019s form that might otherwise be lost in the darker reaches of the canyon.<\/p>\n

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On October 30, 2003, I spent a day photographing BNSF and Union Pacific trains on the old Western Pacific route through California\u2019s Feather River Canyon. This exceptionally scenic route has long been a popular place to picture trains. Although photogenic, one of the conceptual problems with the canyon making the balance between train and scenery … Continue reading BNSF in the Feather River Canyon-1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19931,"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":[3944,4455,3814,1640,820,80,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601653-2.jpg?fit=1928%2C1037","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5bv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933"}],"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=19933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19934,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions\/19934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}