{"id":43244,"date":"2025-12-30T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43244"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:28:14","slug":"square-format-on-the-embarcedero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/square-format-on-the-embarcedero\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Format on the Embarcedero-click on the post to see the whole photo!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On my Autumn 2003 visit to California, I spent many days traveling on and documenting the San Francisco Municipal Railway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of special interest was the ever-popular F-Line that runs between Castro Street and Fisherman’s Wharf using a collection of historic streetcars, many of which are owned and maintained by the Market Street Railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a pleasant October afternoon, I made a series of black & white photos of an F-Line PCC taking the dogleg from Market Street to the Embarcedero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soft Mediterranean sun made for perfect conditions for Kodak Tri-X, which I exposed using a 1950s-vintage Rolleiflex Model T. A roll of 120-size Tri-X would allow for just 12 square frames, so I’d compose each image carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rollei’s square format enables distinctive images. While some photographers might shoot square and crop rectangular, I prefer to work with the square frame to make the most of the shape and present the images full-frame (without cropping).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The Rollei’s square format enables distinctive images. While some photographers might sthoot square and crop rectangular, I prefer to work with the square frame to make the most of the shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43245,"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":[8473,8474,6153,5580],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/San-Francisco-PCC_Ferry_Building_Oct2003_Kodak_TriX_\u00a9Brian-Solomon00812.jpg?fit=2018%2C2048","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bfu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244"}],"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=43244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43249,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions\/43249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}