{"id":33538,"date":"2022-05-30T13:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33538"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:17:38","slug":"lockes-mills-f1-7-at-15-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/lockes-mills-f1-7-at-15-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockes Mills-f1.7 at 15 seconds."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the other night at Lockes Mills, Maine, a roar of EMDs and the blinding light from the headlights announced the passage of St. Lawrence &amp; Atlantic&#8217;s 393-the westward road freight from Lewiston Junction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had my Lumix LX7 firmly mounted on a Bogen tripod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The camera was set at ISO 200, the lens was wide open at f1.7, and I manually set the exposure for 15 seconds to allow the train to blur through the scene as it crossed the causeway over Round Pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For presentation here, I made some nominal adjustments to the camera RAW file using Abobe Lightroom. 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