{"id":20311,"date":"2018-02-01T05:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20311"},"modified":"2018-01-30T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:52:32","slug":"looking-like-a-scene-from-kubricks-2001-a-stereo-space-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/looking-like-a-scene-from-kubricks-2001-a-stereo-space-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Like a Scene from Kubrick\u2019s 2001: A Stereo Space Odyssey."},"content":{"rendered":"

A lesson in Night-photography.<\/p>\n

It was an arctic evening at East Brookfield when we crossed the bridge over the tracks near CP64.<\/p>\n

There it was, making an alien roar: the Loram rail-grinder in the old sidings.<\/p>\n

Hard snow on the ground and the moon rising.<\/p>\n

\u2018This will just take a couple of minutes\u2019.<\/p>\n

We were on our way to a gig at Dunny\u2019s Tavern, but I wanted to make a few photos of this machine. Interestingly, it was my old friend Dennis LeBeau that both invited us to the gig and alerted me to the Loram grinder.<\/p>\n

I tried a few photos using my Lumix LX7 in \u2018night mode\u2019. But the extremely low light levels didn\u2019t make for great results.<\/p>\n

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Handheld ‘Night Mode’ has its limitations. This isn’t the sharpest photo and the shadow areas are muddy and lacking detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view in ‘Nightmode’. Compare this view with the photos below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So then I balanced my LX7 in the chain-link fence, dialed in 2\/3s of a stop over exposure, set the self-timer to 2 seconds, pressed the shutter and stood back.<\/p>\n

I did this several times until I made an acceptably sharp photo.<\/p>\n

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I exposed a RAW file using A-mode with 2\/3s of a stop over exposure. By using the self-timer I minimized vibration. In lieu of a tripod, I positioned my Lumix LX7 in the chainlink fence. (Special secret technique!). This is the unmodified RAW file in the Lightroom work window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I manipulated the RAW files in Lightroom to better balance the information captured during exposure.<\/p>\n

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Using contrast and exposure controls in Lightroom, and gauging my efforts using the Histogram (top right) I adjusted my photo to look like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The improved image from the RAW file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I know someone will moan about the tree at left. There\u2019s nothing I can do about that, it\u2019s part of the scene. Sorry 2001-fans, no black slab! So far as I can tell, anyway.<\/p>\n

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A lesson in Night-photography. It was an arctic evening at East Brookfield when we crossed the bridge over the tracks near CP64. There it was, making an alien roar: the Loram rail-grinder in the old sidings. Hard snow on the ground and the moon rising. \u2018This will just take a couple of minutes\u2019. We were … Continue reading Looking Like a Scene from Kubrick\u2019s 2001: A Stereo Space Odyssey.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20308,"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":[4544,4545,4547,4546,4537,1002],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MOD-Screen-Shot-2018-01-27-at-10.31.09-AM.png?fit=2560%2C1600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5hB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311"}],"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=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20312,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions\/20312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}