{"id":16553,"date":"2016-08-31T05:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2016-08-28T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:56:48","slug":"csx-at-warren-massachusetts-27-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/csx-at-warren-massachusetts-27-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"CSX at Warren, Massachusetts\u201427 August 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

A lesson in \u2018turbo-flutter.\u2019<\/p>\n

It was a sunny Saturday morning and the old Boston & Albany mainline was quieter than a rural Polish branch line.<\/p>\n

Finally about 10:30 am\u00a0Mike Gardner and I heard distant stirrings of an eastward freight.<\/p>\n

We made our way to Warren, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The long days of summer have resulted in the B&A route becoming unfortunately brushed in. Much of the line is largely obscured by bushes, trees and undergrowth, which make railway photography difficult.<\/p>\n

The old Boston & Albany station at Warren remains one of my favorite surviving structures on the line;\u00a0it\u00a0harks back to a time when the railroad was the principle corridor for commerce in the region. Recently it has been restored.<\/p>\n

Here we made our photographs.<\/p>\n

A few strategic shafts of sunlight illuminate the line. I set my FujiFilm XT1\u2019s shutter release dial to \u2018CH\u2019 (continuous high\u2014the setting I casually refer to as \u2018turbo flutter\u2019) and waited as the train approached.<\/p>\n

When it neared the shafts of sunlight, I held the shutter down and exposed a rapid burst of digital images, knowing that at least of one of them would place the front of the locomotive in full sun.<\/p>\n

This satisfied my desired composition to juxtapose CSX\u2019s modern General Electric diesel with the 1890s-era railway station building.<\/p>\n

To demonstrate the effect of \u2018turbo flutter\u2019 as a compositional exposure tool, I\u2019ve displayed the below\u00a0sequence of images. In practice my camera exposed about three times as many photos. (Frame numbers are sequential)<\/p>\n

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Since the real cost of making a burst of exposures is very small, in this situation, I\u2019ll happily make as many images as I need to in order to produce the photo I want. Later, if I choose, I can throw away the unsatisfactory images to save space on my hard drives.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light is Daily.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lesson in \u2018turbo-flutter.\u2019 It was a sunny Saturday morning and the old Boston & Albany mainline was quieter than a rural Polish branch line. Finally about 10:30 am\u00a0Mike Gardner and I heard distant stirrings of an eastward freight. We made our way to Warren, Massachusetts. The long days of summer have resulted in the … Continue reading CSX at Warren, Massachusetts\u201427 August 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16552,"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":[3774,3786,3773,41,3654,35,250],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/CSX_Q022_Warren_station-1_DSCF3427.jpg?fit=2449%2C1633","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4iZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553"}],"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=16553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16554,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions\/16554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}