{"id":9138,"date":"2014-12-03T02:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2014-11-29T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T15:32:25","slug":"tracking-the-light-daily-post-photographing-the-shinkansen-at-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tracking-the-light-daily-post-photographing-the-shinkansen-at-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Light Daily Post: Photographing the Shinkansen at Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capturing Motion.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I prefocused and zoomed the lens to keep pace with the nose of the train. Although it may not be immediately evident, this train is moving away from the camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Working with a Nikon N90S with 80-200 zoom lens and Fujichrome Provia 100 I made this zoom-pan of a Series 100 train blitzing the station at Shizuoka, Japan.<\/p>\n

The trick to making a zoom-pan is use a relatively low shutter speed (1\/15 to 1\/30th<\/sup> of a second) and use the zoom to keep pace with the train\u2019s motion. This is actually easier to do with a fast moving train. In this case the Series 100 train was traveling at more than 130mph.<\/p>\n

This technique takes a bit of practice, so it helps to experiment on a really busy high-speed railway line such as the New Tokaido line. When I made this photo in April 1997, there were about 10-11 trains in each direction every hour over the line.<\/p>\n

I made several of these \u2018zoom-pans\u2019 on color slide film. I didn\u2019t know how well I\u2019d succeeded until weeks later when I reviewed my slides.<\/p>\n

This photo appeared as the title-page spread of my 2001 book Bullet Trains<\/em><\/a> published by MBI. The book took a look at high-speed railway networks around the world.<\/p>\n

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