{"id":30923,"date":"2021-03-28T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2021-03-28T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T15:05:26","slug":"thalys-departing-brussels-midi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/thalys-departing-brussels-midi\/","title":{"rendered":"Thalys Departing Brussels Midi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a whirlwind trip to Belgium, France and Germany in Spring 1999,\u00a0I made this long telephoto image of the high-speed\u00a0Thalys\u00a0<\/em>departing Brussels Midi for Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was working with my original Nikon N90S that I\u2019d bought secondhand from Mike Gardner two years earlier fitted with a Tokina 400mm fixed telephoto that I bought from Doug Moore in the early 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most unusual was I was working with a short-lived slide film emulsion sold as\u00a0Fujichrome<\/em>\u00a0MS 100\/1000 that offered variable ISO through push\/pull processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d rated this film at ISO 200, which gave me an extra stop over the Fujichrome Sensia II (ISO 100) that I normally used. Fuji offered processing for this film that came with a special mailer on which you would tick a box to select the desired ISO for processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lighting was also unusual: it had been raining, but shafts of diffused sun light were peaking through heavy fast moving clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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400mm view at Brussels Midi in March 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The effect of the 400mm lens compressed the complex array of track on approach to the busy Brussels terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enlarged portion of the above photo to show grain structure and detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Most unusual was I was working with a short-lived slide film emulsion sold as Fujichrome MS 100\/1000, which offered variable ISO through push\/pull processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6246,5136,6733,5826,6734,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Thalys_at_Brussels_Midi_Mar1999_400mm\u00a9BrianSolomon_200949.jpg?fit=1400%2C940","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-82L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923"}],"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=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30926,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions\/30926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}