{"id":40929,"date":"2025-01-08T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40929"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:35:52","slug":"prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve scoured my collection looking for representative photos to print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still like to see my images in analog format, and a moderate size print offers a great way to study photographic quality in ways that may not be apparent when viewed digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve sent two orders of  out. One to Adorama&#8217;s Printique service for 8&#215;12 inch prints. The other to Shutterfly for 8&#215;10 inch prints. This included a mix of old film photos and digital images from over the years, including some very recent images. In both instances, I selected &#8216;matte&#8217; surface, because I&#8217;ve found that this holds up better and is easier to scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"40930\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/prints\/rn_sd40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_arlington_branch_train_tamaqua_pa_briansolomon_dsc_0168-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1363\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1698258674&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BrianSolomon&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?fit=474%2C315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?resize=474%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?resize=1022%2C680 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?resize=205%2C136 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C1022 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Among the photos sent to Printque was this view of an empty Reading &amp; Northern coal train at Tamaqua, Pa. I exposed this on a trip with Dan Cupper in October 2023. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My print orders are expected to arrive on Thursday, which should allow me to compare print quality from the two suppliers, and allow me to enjoy my photographs. Kris and I have some surplus photo frames, so maybe a few will soon decorate our walls!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-green-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d3b4da55415d7d223d11f6e1b7c0c9d5\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still like to see my images in analog format, and a moderate size print offers a great way to study photographic quality in ways that may not be apparent when viewed digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40930,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[8171,6621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RN_SD40-2_3051_on_tailend_of_Arlington_Branch_train_Tamaqua_PA_\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0168-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BVuC-prints","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929"}],"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=40929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40931,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions\/40931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}