{"id":9213,"date":"2014-12-08T02:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9213"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:40:20","slug":"brian-solomons-night-photo-challenge-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brian-solomons-night-photo-challenge-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Solomon\u2019s Night Photo Challenge-Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to my recent nomination by Phil Brahms and Blair Kooistra for the Facebook Night Photo challenge, I\u2019ve selected five groups of photos that I feel might be interesting to review on Tracking the Light.<\/p>\n

I have to admit, I\u2019m not clear on the rules for this challenge. As a result, I\u2019ll follow my standard policy and just wing it. Who needs rules anyway?<\/p>\n

Among the difficulties in selecting photos for this challenge has been simply finding them. For the most part I\u2019ve not organized images in regards to the time of day they were exposed. A related problem is the large number of night views that I\u2019ve attempted over the years.<\/p>\n

Lastly, what makes for a successful night photo?<\/p>\n

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Over the years, I\u2019ve made hundreds of night photos at Palmer, Massachusetts. I exposed this image on an exceptionally foggy May 1985 evening. My subject was the old Palmer Union Station near the crossing of Conrail\u2019s Boston & Albany line and the Central Vermont Railway. Today this old station has been restored and serves as the Steaming Tender restaurant. Tracking the Light viewers will find it a familiar subject, as I\u2019ve often featured images in and around this building. Exposed on black & white film with a Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More than 11 years later, I exposed this view at Palmer. Here I’m looking west with the station at my back. A southward New England Central freight is waiting north of\u00a0the diamond. Exposed with a Nikon F3T with 28mm lens on Fujichrome Provia 100F. December 6, 1996. Color is an added complication for night work. Would this photo be more effective as a black & white image? Or would the effect of the red signal lights be lost?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In response to my recent nomination by Phil Brahms and Blair Kooistra for the Facebook Night Photo challenge, I\u2019ve selected five groups of photos that I feel might be interesting to review on Tracking the Light. I have to admit, I\u2019m not clear on the rules for this challenge. As a result, I\u2019ll follow my … Continue reading Brian Solomon\u2019s Night Photo Challenge-Part 1.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[111,7535,40,30,292],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Palmer-station-in-Fog-at-ni.jpg?fit=800%2C485","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2oB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213"}],"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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}