{"id":21742,"date":"2018-07-28T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21742"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:41:55","slug":"high-light-and-shadows-on-the-staten-island-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/high-light-and-shadows-on-the-staten-island-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"High Light and Shadows on the Staten Island Railway."},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, some of my railway trips are not centered around photography.<\/p>\n

But I always have a camera.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, I revisited the old Staten Island Rapid Transit, today called New York Metropolitan Transport Authority\u2019s Staten Island Railway.<\/p>\n

Honer Travers and I had traveled on the famous Staten Island Ferry\u2014the best free ride in New York?\u2014and continued south to New Dorp on the train.<\/p>\n

Working with my Lumix LX7, I made these photos during our trip, which was during the middle of the day, during the harshest midday summer light.<\/p>\n

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New Dorp, Staten Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New Dorp, Staten Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New Dorp, Staten Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St. George terminal, Staten Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To help minimize contrast and better hold detail in highlight and shadow areas, I worked with the Lumix RAW files to produce these internet-friendly (scaled) JPGs.<\/p>\n

The RAW file captures greater amount of information than the camera produced JPG, but it takes some interpretation to make use of it.<\/p>\n

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Believe it or not, some of my railway trips are not centered around photography. But I always have a camera. Earlier this month, I revisited the old Staten Island Rapid Transit, today called New York Metropolitan Transport Authority\u2019s Staten Island Railway. Honer Travers and I had traveled on the famous Staten Island Ferry\u2014the best free … Continue reading High Light and Shadows on the Staten Island Railway.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21747,"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":[4839,4838,3692,3338,3690,3681],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SIRT_at_St_George_Staten_Island_P1750964.jpg?fit=3462%2C2310","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5EG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742"}],"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=21742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21748,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions\/21748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}