photography

Late Sun at Christiana

As the days grow longer, Kris and I have resumed our evening forays to roll by Amtrak’s Keystone trains in the fading sun.

The other day we arrived at Christiana as the sun was reaching the horizon. I’d been watching the progress of Amtrak Keystone 654 and picked out a location just east of the old Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station where a wink of sunlight illuminated the tracks.

I’d calculated that the train was less than three minutes away. While I was wondering if it would arrive before the light faded the rails began to sing.

Poised with Nikon Z6 in hand, I composed my image as the blue-white headlights of ACS-64 650 came into view and this is what I caught.

Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm Z-series zoom (set to 26mm). Image at exposed at 400 ISO, f4.0 1/600, and saved as an NEF RAW file. In post-processing the Image file was converted with DxO Pure Raw into a DNG file and then adjusted using Adobe Lightroom to make the most of highlight and shadows, while adjusting color balance and color temperature.

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