{"id":44375,"date":"2026-06-03T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44375"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:46:41","slug":"telephoto-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/telephoto-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephoto to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a follow up to yesterday’s post Too Much Corn, Too Little Train<\/a>, today’s post is about some alternative views of the same scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some photographers are content to work with one camera and just one lens, aiming to carefully craft the perfect composition with the tools in hand. I was once that way\u2014when I was young and carried a Leica IIIA everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not these days. I usually have at least two cameras with me. Plus a ‘spare’, (you know, just in case.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when I wasn’t 100 percent sure about my ‘perfect composition’ with wavey corn, I reached for my Z7-II fitted with a 70-200mm and popped off a few long views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I much prefer these telephoto images over the wide views displayed yesterday. But, I thought, I’d argue otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rods down!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshot of the Lightroom work window of the preceding image. All the details are in the upper right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This has better framing with the trees, but the rods are not ‘down’\u2014hmm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking down Esbenshade Road in Strasburg, Pa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today, Tracking the Light Takes the Telephoto View!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t 100 percent sure about my ‘perfect composition’ with wavey corn, so I reached for my Z7-II fitted with a 70-200mm zoom . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44378,"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":[7555,5295,7122,6845],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-at-9.31.41\u202fPM.jpg?fit=2048%2C1324","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bxJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44375"}],"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=44375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44381,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44375\/revisions\/44381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}