{"id":43759,"date":"2026-03-10T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43759"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:34:47","slug":"shelley-drive-silhouette-march-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/shelley-drive-silhouette-march-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelley Drive Silhouette\u2014March Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last summer, I made a series a variations on a back-lit photograph that I’d exposed looking west at Shelley Drive near Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other evening, Kris, Seamus-the-Dog and I returned to this location to catch a pair of AmtrakKeystone<\/em> trains. In post processing. I repeated the exercise with one of Nikon files of the second train (Amtrak 656).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me this has special significance: One of the last serious conversations I had with my father on photography was regarding last summer’s sequence. He had preferred the hard, unprocessed silhouette compared with my more interpretive digital interpretations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since that time, I’ve found some his black & white negatives exposed in the same vicinity more than sixty year earlier. I’m sorry that I cannot share any these photos with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are five variations of my image, plus a surprise . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak Keystone 656 <\/em>at Shelley Drive; constrast, color temperature, exposure and highlights\/shadows altered for cosmetic interpretation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amtrak Keystone 656 <\/em>at Shelley Drive; heavy constrast, color temperature, exposure and highlights\/shadows altered, plus a mask applied to the sky for heavy adjustment to alter appearance. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amtrak Keystone 656 <\/em>at Shelley Drive, NEF file converted to DNG file with lens correction and nominal contrast adjustment, but without heavy cosmetic adjustment or interpretation. Scaled from the Nikon NEF file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amtrak Keystone 656 <\/em>at Shelley Drive, NEF file converted to DNG file with lens correction and nominal contrast adjustment, followed by additional cosmetic alterations to contrast, exposure, color temperature and shadow\/highlight changes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Did you spot the bird? [Upper left to the left of the catenary poles]. Initially, I thought this might be an errant bit of dust on my Nikon’s sensor. Only after extreme enlargement did I notice that this was in fact a bird in flight. Not a bird in hand, but one in the sky. Sometimes details matter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes details matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43760,"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":[5028,7802,8225,8556],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Amtrak_Keystone_Shelley_Drive_silo\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_5838.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bnN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43759"}],"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=43759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43768,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43759\/revisions\/43768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}