{"id":31495,"date":"2021-06-30T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31495"},"modified":"2021-06-30T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:08:11","slug":"night-photo-secret-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/night-photo-secret-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Photo\u2014Secret Revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made these images the other night when Kris & I were photographing the St Lawrence & Atlantic’s westward road freight (train 393).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Night photography isn’t easy, or straight forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a variety of approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These images were exposed during the last hints of daylight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To capture the train in motion in very low light I used a ‘secret combination’: a telephoto with a wide maximum aperture and a high ISO setting on the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The telephoto minimizes the relative movement of the train to the camera sensor; the wide aperture lets in greater amounts of light and thus allows for a faster shutter speed. Likewise, the higher ISO also contributes to using a faster shutter speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the real secret was exposing manually, taking into account of the very bright headlights relative to the over all scene, while taking a position relatively off axis to the headlights to avoid the very bright lights directly hitting the front element of the lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FujiFilm XT1 with f2.0 90mm lens, camera set to ISO 3200 and 1\/60th of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Night photography isn’t easy, or straight forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[4930,4143,4537,6332,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Barker_Road_west_of_Bethel_Maine_DSCF2163-2.jpg?fit=1400%2C933","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8bZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495"}],"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=31495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31498,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31495\/revisions\/31498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}