{"id":20998,"date":"2018-04-24T06:45:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20998"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:52:49","slug":"mbta-gritty-in-ayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-gritty-in-ayer\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA Gritty in Ayer."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of MBTA\u2019s HSP-46 diesels leads a mid-morning westward commuter train approaching its station stop in Ayer.<\/p>\n

Making effective Midday backlit shots requires challenging photographic techniques.<\/p>\n

In this instance, I took an elevated view, slightly over exposed Kodak Tri-X to allow for greater shadow detail while completely cropping the sky to avoid the visual distraction from excessive highlight brightness.<\/p>\n

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Image exposed on Kodak Tri-X black & white film using a Nikon F3 with f1.4 50mm lens and custom processed to allow for maximum tonality.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Processing the film was my key for achieving better balance and rich tonality.<\/p>\n

Working with Ilford ID-11, I used a \u00a01 to 1 mix with water and lowered the recommended process time for\u00a0Tri-X \u00a0from 11 minutes to 7 minutes 45 seconds (at 68.5 degrees F). This lowered the contrast and prevented excessive processing in the highlight areas.<\/p>\n

After processing, I toned the negatives with a selenium solution, which give the highlights a slight silvery snap, just enough to make for richer tonality without blowing out all the detail.<\/p>\n

My goal was to make the most of the reflections off the rails and the top of the train.<\/p>\n

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One of MBTA\u2019s HSP-46 diesels leads a mid-morning westward commuter train approaching its station stop in Ayer. Making effective Midday backlit shots requires challenging photographic techniques. In this instance, I took an elevated view, slightly over exposed Kodak Tri-X to allow for greater shadow detail while completely cropping the sky to avoid the visual distraction … Continue reading MBTA Gritty in Ayer.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20997,"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":[930,242,790,1644],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53661320.jpg?fit=1815%2C1102","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5sG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998"}],"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=20998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20999,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions\/20999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}