{"id":40956,"date":"2025-01-13T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40956"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T02:00:33","slug":"evening-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/evening-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Attraction."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think that’s a better title than, “What?!! Not another photo of a Metroliner Cabcar!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the shorter days, I make greater use of evening. The paucity of daylight, and demands of daytime obligations leave comparatively few sunlit hours to make photographs during the winter months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Christmas, I made this view of Amtrak 494, the Valley Flyer<\/em>, during its brief station stop at Windsor Locks, Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Nikon Z7-II was mounted upon a 3pod Everest tripod. The ball head and quick-release clip make this trip quick and easy to set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I exposed this photo at ISO 1000, at f4.0 with a 3 second shutter speed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I exposed this photo at ISO 1000, at f4.0 with a 3 second shutter speed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why not use a slower ISO and a longer shutter speed to produce an image with less noise, better color and greater dynamic range? Train 494 often stops for just a few moments, and I didn’t want to risk train movement, by extending the shutter speed to 15 seconds or more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak 494, the Valley Flyer, is seen during its brief station stop at Windsor Locks, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40957,"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],"tags":[5028,5062,5423,8183,5116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Amtrak_train_494_at_Windsor_Locks_CT_old_Station_\u00a9BrianSolomoDSC_3147-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aEA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956"}],"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=40956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40960,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40956\/revisions\/40960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}