{"id":39529,"date":"2024-07-14T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39529"},"modified":"2024-07-13T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T02:10:20","slug":"making-the-most-of-locomotives-in-bright-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/making-the-most-of-locomotives-in-bright-morning-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of Locomotives in Bright Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I consider this an excercise in composition. I had a few minutes last Thursday morning, so I went up to Leola, Pennsylvania to catch up with Norfolk Southern’s New Holland Branch local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sun was bright and the clouds were just rolling in from the west. I made this sequence of photographs of the GP38-3 and SD40E that had paused by the old PRR depot along Horseshoe Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last year, I’ve made a variety of railroad photos at this location. I like the concept of variation on a theme. Years ago I learned to make the most of good photographic situation, because you never know precisely the situation and composition that will best suit a photograph for publication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of this selection do you have any favorites? All were exposed using my Nikon Z7-II mirror-less digital camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 30mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/320th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 24mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/400th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 33mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/400th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 31mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/320th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 54mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/400th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 45mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/400th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 24mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/640th second. No adjustments to exposure or contrast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 49mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/320th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Z-series zoom set to 24mm; ISO 100, f 7.1, 1\/400th second. Nominal adjustment to shadows and hightlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I made this sequence of photographs of the GP38-3 and SD40E that had paused by the old PRR depot along Horseshoe Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5963,7656,5383,5131,5073],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-ahz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529"}],"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=39529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39541,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529\/revisions\/39541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}