{"id":33526,"date":"2022-05-28T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33526"},"modified":"2022-05-28T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T11:05:15","slug":"st-lawrence-atlantic-at-night-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/st-lawrence-atlantic-at-night-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"St Lawrence & Atlantic at Night-May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday evening, Kris and I took a drive up to the former Grand Trunk Railway route, operated by Genesee & Wyoming\u2019s St Lawrence & Atlantic. We caught up with photographer Andrew Dale, and drove east to West Paris, Maine intercept the westward road freight 393.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mix of old and new camera technologies allowed me to push the envelope of railroad night photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attached my old Nikkor f1.8 105mm lens (which I retreived from storage in Dublin last month) to my Nikon Z6 mirrorless digital camera. This is a \u2018fast\u2019 lens, and a full stop and third faster than my 70-200mm Z-series zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with a mix of street lighting and a hint of dusk in the sky, I made a hand held pan photo of the lead locomotive crossing West Paris\u2019s Main Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bumped the camera ISO to 40,000, and set the 105mm to f1.8, this allowed me a shutter speed of 1\/160th<\/sup>\u00a0of a second. I set the shutter speed, aperture and focus manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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