{"id":34219,"date":"2022-09-09T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34219"},"modified":"2022-09-08T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T01:10:47","slug":"poles-and-wires-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/poles-and-wires-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Poles and Wires Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assemblies of poles and wires can make or break a photo location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been flummoxed by the location on the former Mountain Division known as Goves, where the railroad ducks under Rt 302 on the way to Bartlett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of a scant few overpasses on the Conway Scenic Railroad. What makes the location difficult are several sets of road-side wires that run both parallel and perpendicular to the railroad line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wires and poles can create visually distracting elements that can disrupt a composition . Especially difficult are very heavy black cables in this scene that are thoroughly distracting and difficult to minimize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, I photographed the westbound Conway Scenic Mountaineer at Goves and the poles and wires ended up bisecting the scene in various awkward ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below I’ve included two sets of photos, the top image in each set shows the uncropped image; the bottom in each set shows selective cropping aimed at minimizing the effect of the poles and wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Full-frame, without cropping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cropped <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Full-frame, without cropping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cropped <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Wires and poles can create visually distracting elements that can disrupt a composition with a train. Especially difficult are very heavy black cables in this seen that are thoroughly distracting and difficult to minimize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34226,"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],"tags":[5754,7316],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CSRR_216_w_Mountaineer_at_Goves_DSC_0496-2-1.jpg?fit=1700%2C798","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8TV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219"}],"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=34219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34230,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34219\/revisions\/34230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}