{"id":4861,"date":"2013-12-17T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T10:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2013-12-09T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T21:20:44","slug":"daily-post-focused-on-the-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-focused-on-the-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST: Focused on the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Irish Rail Close-up and Real.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Footbridge<\/a>
Footbridge at Clonmel, County Tipperary on November 19, 2004. Exposed with a Nikon F3 on Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would be something else if it were unreal, no?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked to make macro views of railways. Examining the texture, colors, and shape of the equipment, track and structures allows for better appreciation of the subject.<\/p>\n

One of the best times to make close ups and detail photographs is under dramatic lighting; low sun or stormy light, where richer qualities make for more pleasing tones. Even the most mundane and ordinary subjects seem more interesting with great light.<\/p>\n

Yet, detailed views can also make use of dull days when by focusing on texture and using extreme focus can compensate for flat lighting.<\/p>\n

Irish Rail made for an especially good subject for detailed images, in part because there was so much antique equipment to photograph. Well-worn infrastructure is inherently fascinating. Here out in the open metal has been doing a job for decades and often it shows the scars from years of hard work, like an old weaver\u2019s time weathered hands.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made hundreds of Irish Rail close-ups over the years. Here a just a few. Look around railways near you and see what you find! Sometimes the most interesting photographs can be made while waiting for trains.<\/p>\n

\"Distant<\/a>
Distant signal for Nicholastown gates. Nikon F3 with 180mm lens, Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Signal<\/a>
Signal cabin interior at Rathmore. I like lever 23 the most. Exposed with a Contax G2 fitted with a 16mm Hologon, focused manually.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crows<\/a>
Crows congregate on the Carrick on Suir footbridge on December 11, 2004. I made this image with my Nikon F3 with a 180mm Nikkor telephoto while waiting for an empty sugar beet train. Do you think the crows care about blue NIR diesels?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"On<\/a>
On Spring evening, Enfield cabin catches a fading wink of sunlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Irish<\/a>
Irish Rail 175 basks in the November sunlight at Mallow, County Cork. Canon EOS 3 with 24-70mm zoom lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also see:\u00a0Irish Rail at Ballybrophy, June 2006<\/a>,\u00a0Irish Rail Freight April 25-26, 2013<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Looking Back on Irish Railways 1998-2003<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Irish Rail Close-up and Real. It would be something else if it were unreal, no? I\u2019ve always liked to make macro views of railways. Examining the texture, colors, and shape of the equipment, track and structures allows for better appreciation of the subject. One of the best times to make close ups and detail photographs … Continue reading DAILY POST: Focused on the Details<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10,48],"tags":[4537,1677,276,947,943,178,1708,19,1709,1707,7535,342,182,20,21,1711,45,351,7,327,5,4,1710,32,33,6,328],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Irish_Rail_signal_levers_at_Rathmore_Cabin_17July_2003_Brian-Solomon-234453.jpg?fit=700%2C447","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-1gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861"}],"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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}