{"id":21375,"date":"2018-06-12T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21375"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:03:55","slug":"pacing-the-new-england-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pacing-the-new-england-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacing the New England Central."},"content":{"rendered":"

We were trying to overtake the New England Central ballast train extra<\/p>\n

(see: Extra train on New England Central<\/a>. https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5yy<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I rolled down the passenger-side window of my friend\u2019s Golf, and exposed a series of photos with my Lumix.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 RAW file adjusted for color, contrast, and exposure in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve described this technique previously; I adjusted the f-stop (aperture control) manually to its smallest opening (f8), my ISO was at its slowest setting (80), and I put the camera to aperture priority.<\/p>\n

I intended this combination of settings to automatically select the appropriate shutter speed for ideal exposure, while using the slowest setting to allow for the effect of motion blur.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 RAW file adjusted for color, contrast, and exposure in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I kept the camera aimed at the locomotive while allowing for ample foreground to blur by for the effect of speed.<\/p>\n

This works especially well to show the large diesel working long-hood forward, which is not its usual position.<\/p>\n

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Lumix LX7 RAW file adjusted for color, contrast, and exposure in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lumix LX7 RAW file adjusted for color, contrast, and exposure in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We were trying to overtake the New England Central ballast train extra (see: Extra train on New England Central. https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5yy). I rolled down the passenger-side window of my friend\u2019s Golf, and exposed a series of photos with my Lumix. I\u2019ve described this technique previously; I adjusted the f-stop (aperture control) manually to its smallest opening … Continue reading Pacing the New England Central.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21379,"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":[48],"tags":[4658,4747,4712,4746,4537,81,2842,154],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NECR_Ballast_Extra_pan_P1750069.jpg?fit=1731%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5yL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375"}],"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=21375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21380,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions\/21380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}