{"id":41228,"date":"2025-02-25T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41228"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T01:56:08","slug":"technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, I’m giving my first Railroad Photography 101 class at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the topics I’ll touch on is ‘technique’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To illustrate ‘technique’, I made this sequence of four similar images of former Pennsylvania Railroad E7A 5901 displayed at the museum, which demonstrate that subtle choices regarding angle, light, exposure and focal length affect foreground and background that alter the end result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made this sequence of four similar images of former Pennsylvania Railroad E7A 5901 displayed at the museum, which demonstrate that subtle choices regarding angle, light, exposure and focal length affect foreground and background that alter the end result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41233,"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":[8223,6630,6130],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PRR_5901_DSC_3749-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aIY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41228"}],"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=41228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41236,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41228\/revisions\/41236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}