{"id":20130,"date":"2018-01-03T05:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20130"},"modified":"2018-01-03T05:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:52:43","slug":"new-england-central-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-central-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Central in the Snow."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun and freshly fallen snow makes for a nice setting.<\/p>\n

New England Central job 608 was making its way from Palmer back to Willimantic with about 20 cars of freight.<\/p>\n

In the lead was one of the railroad\u2019s original GP38s, still wearing the classic blue and yellow livery that was applied to these locomotives at the time of New England Central\u2019s start-up in 1995.<\/p>\n

I made this view at Plains Road south of Stafford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Although much of the location was shadowed, a shaft of sun on the grade crossing made for photo opportunity with a telephoto lens. I stood back a bit to allow for slight compression effect owing to the longer focal length, and aimed to frame the leading locomotive between the crossing signals.<\/p>\n

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This distant view shows how the light was falling on the scene. I set my camera to \u2018turbo flutter\u2019 (motor drive at \u2018continuous high\u2019) and exposed a burst of images when the locomotive approached the window of sunlight on the crossing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I set my focus point slightly off-center to hit the locomotive square in the nose.<\/p>\n

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FujiFilm X-T1 with 18-135mm lens set at 104mm (equivalent to a 156mm focal length on a traditional 35mm film camera). ISO 200, f7.1 1\/500th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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