{"id":28618,"date":"2020-02-03T06:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=28618"},"modified":"2020-02-03T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:35:05","slug":"dusk-at-east-northfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dusk-at-east-northfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusk at East Northfield."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It is unlikely you will find \u2018East Northfield\u2019 on most maps of Massachusetts, since this is a railroad location that doesn\u2019t reflect local geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not withstanding these directional peculiarities, East Northfield (as so-identified by New England Central\u2019s sign) is a classic railroad location and a favorite place to photograph trains. Located on the Massachusetts-Vermont state line, this is where New England Central meets Pan Am’s Boston & Maine Connecticut River line from Greenfield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, January 24, 2020, my friends, fellow photographers, Tim and Pat and I converged at the junction to make photographs of New England Central\u2019s northward 611.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here the train was held for a few minutes while Amtrak\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>northward\u00a0Vermonter<\/em>\u00a0made its Brattleboro station stop. Operational considerations typically find freights holding south of East Northfield until Amtrak is north of \u2018West River\u2019 (a railroad location situated north of Amtrak\u2019s Brattleboro station).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The light was fading fast. So working with my FujiFilm XT1 with 90mm prime telephoto, I exposed a series of images to make the most of the tinted low lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first view was made with an auto-white balance setting. The second two using a daylight preset that results in the camera capturing more of the blue-spectrum of dusk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auto white balance; no post processing color correction.
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Daylight white balance <\/em>without post processing corrections.

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This exposure was made a few minutes later and reflects the approach of evening after the amount of light had diminished. It was also made using the ‘Daylight’ white balance preset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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