{"id":21731,"date":"2018-07-25T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21731"},"modified":"2018-07-23T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:38:54","slug":"variations-on-a-theme-irish-rail-219-at-the-same-place-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/variations-on-a-theme-irish-rail-219-at-the-same-place-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations on a Theme: Irish Rail 219 at the same place, again."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve often heard railway photographers dismiss an opportunity with the excuse, \u2018I already have that\u00a0<\/em>there.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guilty of this too.<\/p>\n

However, everyday is different; locomotives and locations are only two elements that make a a successful railway action photograph.<\/p>\n

Weather, lighting, angle to the tracks and the focal length of your lens all play important roles in the end result. Also consider the cleanliness of the locomotive and the variations in consist.<\/p>\n

There was a period where Irish Rail 219 regularly worked the Dublin-Ballina IWT liner freights. When I\u2019m in Dublin it is relatively easy for me to reach my standard location and catch the IWT on its down-road journey. In fact I often do this on my morning walk, or on the way to the supermarket.<\/p>\n

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5 March 2014; exposed using my now defunct Lumix LX3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was a few months later, in August of 2014, that I made this sunny day view using my new Lumix LX7. It helps to have a clear bright day and a clean locomotive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’ve moved a little bit west of my usual spot and working with my FujiFilm XT1 fitted with 18-135mm zoom with an external grad filter that I was using to improve the sky detail. I’m positioned a little higher here too. Unfortunately, this angle brings in more urban clutter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yet, it got to the point where if I knew that 219 was working the IWT, I wouldn\u2019t bother with another photo of it in my standard location. (And yes\u00a0<\/em>I have it at other places too.)<\/p>\n

Which of the three is your favorite?<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light Posts Every Day.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve often heard railway photographers dismiss an opportunity with the excuse, \u2018I already have that\u00a0there.\u2019 I\u2019m guilty of this too. However, everyday is different; locomotives and locations are only two elements that make a a successful railway action photograph. Weather, lighting, angle to the tracks and the focal length of your lens all play important … Continue reading Variations on a Theme: Irish Rail 219 at the same place, again.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21734,"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],"tags":[4833,4732,4731,19,607,61],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Irish_Rail_219_w_IWT_at_Islandbridge_Jct_P1060619-1.jpg?fit=3776%2C2520","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731"}],"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=21731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21737,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21731\/revisions\/21737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}