{"id":43494,"date":"2026-01-31T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43494"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:27:41","slug":"austrian-electric-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/austrian-electric-silhouette\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Electric Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made this broadside silhouette of German and Austrian electrics rolling east under wire while standing in a field on a frosty evening on the opposite side of the River Inn from Brixlegg, Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was January 13, 2006, and I was working with Fujichrome film. The sun was sinking in the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My goal was to place the locomotives against the textured Alpine backdrop for dramatic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While counter-intuitive to conventional railroad photographic practice, placing the main subject in the shadow can be a useful tool. In this image the dappled shadows draw the eye to the lead locomotive making its standout more than if had been in bright sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light works in the Shadows!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While counter-intuitive to conventional railroad photographic practice, placing the main subject in the shadow can be a useful tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43496,"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":[6270,8230,6644,5370],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OBB_near_Brixlegg_Austria_13Jan2006\u00a9Brian_Solomon210595.jpg?fit=2048%2C1355","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bjw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494"}],"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=43494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43497,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494\/revisions\/43497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}