{"id":9981,"date":"2015-02-19T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9981"},"modified":"2015-02-19T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:40:59","slug":"fuji-x-t1-and-irish-rails-iwt-liner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fuji-x-t1-and-irish-rails-iwt-liner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuji X-T1 and Irish Rail\u2019s IWT Liner."},"content":{"rendered":"

It helps to be near the tracks. In Dublin, my oft-photographed location at Islandbridge Junction is only a five minute walk away.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the brightest day, last week when I made\u00a0the opportunity to make a few photographs of Irish Rail\u2019s Dublin (North Wall) to Ballina IWT Liner. This is a\u00a0freight train that I\u2019ve photographed very often owing to its operational regularity and proximity. It\u00a0was the perfect subject to try out my new Fuji X-T1.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail ICRs were plentiful. Time for a test photo. Fuji X-T1 with 18-135mm lens at 18mm; ISO 1250 f4.9 at 1\/500th of a second in ‘Velvia’ mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wandered up to my location as Irish Rail was shuffling some 22K series ROTEM-built Intercity Railcars (ICRs). While these are a dime a dozen (or is that ten euro cents for ten?) and the light was flat, I put the camera to use. What better time to practice?<\/p>\n

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I felt that the ‘Velvia’ setting was too saturated for the overcast scene, so I switched to ‘Provia’ and opened up by about a third of stop for a slightly lighter image. The IWT liner was routed through Platform 10 around the ICRs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The flexibility offered by the 18-135mm lens and other controls allowed me to quickly adjust my perspective as the IWT Liner got closer. It wasn’t moving very fast. I’ve made many photos here, but this was my first catch of a gray 071 work the IWT. If I’d been using actual Provia 100F slide film my exposure would have been about f2.8 at 1\/125th. Tough lighting for midday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The liner made its appearance and I exposed a burst of images in \u2018Provia\u2019 mode. (The Fujifilm X-T1 digital camera has traditional Fuji film profiles programmed into it.)<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, the liner wasn\u2019t moving very quickly and it looked as if it wouldn\u2019t stay ahead of the 11 am passenger train to Cork, so my friend and fellow photographer Colm O\u2019Callaghan traveled to Hazelhatch at the end of the quad-track.<\/p>\n

We made it in enough time to watch the 11am passenger overtake the IWT Liner and made some photos of the train.<\/p>\n

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Irish Rail’s IWT liner ambles toward Hazelhatch. An ICR is working uproad toward Dublin on the quad track mainline. Fuji X-T1. By using the tilting rear screen, I was able to hold the camera over my head and compose this scene in ‘live view’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My Fuji X-T1 has a tilting rear display, a first for me. This allowed me to hold the camera high over the railing on the footbridge at Hazelhatch and frame up a series of images.<\/p>\n

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But is the image sharp? I was entirely relying on the camera’s autofocus. This is a cropped view of the above image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Here<\/a>
Here is an even tighter crop of the same file. While I exposed RAW and Jpg files simultaneously, this crop is taken from the Jpg. I’ll explore the RAW files later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the train passed, I could hear the class 071 diesel-electric roaring away in \u2018run-8\u2019 (maximum throttle) for at least five minutes. I grew up to the sound of turbocharged EMD diesels, so its always a treat to hear an old 645E3 working.<\/p>\n

When I got home, I pored over the files fresh from the X-T1. These were some of the first action shots with my new camera. Not too bad considering the dull light. More to come!<\/p>\n

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Best of the lot; using the RAW file, I lightened this image slightly and made nominal localized contrast adjustments in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It helps to be near the tracks. In Dublin, my oft-photographed location at Islandbridge Junction is only a five minute walk away. It wasn\u2019t the brightest day, last week when I made\u00a0the opportunity to make a few photographs of Irish Rail\u2019s Dublin (North Wall) to Ballina IWT Liner. This is a\u00a0freight train that I\u2019ve photographed … Continue reading Fuji X-T1 and Irish Rail\u2019s IWT Liner.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9975,"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],"tags":[3786,2474,7535,21,61],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CROP_Uproad_ICR_and_IWT_at_Hazelhatch_DSCF0270.jpg?fit=800%2C403","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2AZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981"}],"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=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}