{"id":38851,"date":"2024-04-14T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2024-04-13T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T23:33:01","slug":"ulster-transport-museum-at-cultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ulster-transport-museum-at-cultra\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Transport Museum at Cultra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ulster Transport Museum at Cultra (in Co. Down, Northern Ireland) has one of the finest static displays of restored vintage railway equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is comparable to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and California State Railroad Museum and well worth a visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kris and I paid a visit to Cultra at the end of March and I made this selection of photos using my Nikon Z7-II. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the lighting is contrasty and relatively dim, I set the camera to record at comparably high-ISO. While this resulted in comparably pixelated images, found the overall quality of the photographs very satisfactory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where possible, I lowered the ISO to allow for higher image quality. However, since I exposing everything hand-held, I didn’t want to use a shutter speed much slower than about 1\/15th of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In post-processing, I lightened shadow areas and controlled highlights, while lowering overall contrast in order to improve the overall image quality, while preserving the relative atmosphere of the museum environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISO 4000, f4.0, 1\/50th second, Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom at 26mm.<\/figcaption>
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