{"id":32479,"date":"2021-12-15T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32479"},"modified":"2021-12-14T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T02:42:37","slug":"west-slope-glint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/west-slope-glint\/","title":{"rendered":"West Slope Glint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made these glint images looking west from the Railfan’s Overlook at Cassandra, Pennsylvania toward the November evening sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trick to successful glint images is correctly exposing for the highlights in order to retain sufficient detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another trick is to select a ‘daylight’ white balance, rather than using an automatic white balance setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Westward Norfolk Southern intermodal train passes Cassandra, Pennsylvania on the West Slope of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line grade over the Allegheny Divide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helpers at the back of a westbound double stack train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I made these glint images looking west from the Railfan’s Overlook at Cassandra, Pennsylvania toward the November evening sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32481,"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":[48],"tags":[7014,5965,5383,6630,5073,7025,5381,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NS_stacks_west_helper_in_glint_light-Cassandra_DSC_1174.jpg?fit=1500%2C998","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479"}],"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=32479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32483,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479\/revisions\/32483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}