{"id":974,"date":"2012-12-28T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=974"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:34:34","slug":"dublins-harcourt-street-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dublins-harcourt-street-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin\u2019s Harcourt Street at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harcourt Street looking north on a rainy March 1998 evening; Nikon F3T with 50mm Nikkor Lens, Fujichrome 64T slide film. Exposed manually with aid of a Sekonic Studio Deluxe hand-held light meter. This image appears on pages 184-185 of my book Dublin, published by Compendium in 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are very few places where I my memory predates the railway. However,\u00a0Dublin<\/a>‘s\u00a0LUAS<\/a> tram system<\/a> (opened in 2004) offers one example. I made my first photos of Harcourt Street in March 1998. It was a rainy evening, and I was experimenting with some tungsten balanced Fujichrome<\/a> to enhance the blue twilight glow.<\/p>\n

\"LUAS<\/a>
On November 3, 2010, a LUAS Green Line Tram bound for St. Stephens Green navigates Dublin\u2019s Harcourt Street. Canon 7D with 28-135mm lens set at 130mm, ISO 1250 1\/40th sec f5.7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving a dozen years forward, on November 3, 2010 I was interested in replicating the effect of my earlier efforts (without any attempt at precisely recreating the scene; my 1998 photo was made from the south-end of the street looking north, while the 2010 image was from the north-end, looking south). The image of the tram was made with my Canon 7D<\/a> with the 28-135mm lens. Here, the tungsten color balance was accomplished in-camera using the \u2018light bulb\u2019 white balance setting. (See: Steam at Dusk, December 15, 2012<\/a>) . This image was made during the final glow of daylight, and rather than neutralize the bluish light by using the auto white balance setting, I opted to enhance the effect while offering adequate compensation for the warm-balance street lamps. I was particularly drawn to reflections in the street and the repeating window frame patterns in the Georgian buildings<\/a> above the tram. The pedestrian silhouettes seem apropos for the time of year; here past meets present.<\/p>\n

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