{"id":42966,"date":"2025-11-30T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42966"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T23:19:51","slug":"kriss-christmas-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/kriss-christmas-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris’s Christmas Village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kris has a long tradition of creating a table-top Christmas village for the holidays. This season we set up her annual village in our dining room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in charge of locating the tracks for the HO-scale train and tree-placement among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After it was all done, Kris asked me to take a few photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with many of my projects, one thing led to another, and several hours later I’d produced an album of images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All images were exposed on a solid tripod, with time exposures up to 30 seconds. In addition to lighting from the buildings, trees and other scale sources, I used a hand-held LED flashlight to provide supplemental lighting and contrast contol effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enhance the magical effect of the season, I made some heavy handed post processing adjustments with some of the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light explores railway image making.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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