{"id":40993,"date":"2025-01-17T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40993"},"modified":"2025-01-14T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:24:16","slug":"shadow-and-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/shadow-and-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow and Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been making shadowy photos of trains at Palmer, Massachusetts in the gloom of night since the early 1980s. In my early days, I made black & white night photos of Central Vermont RS-11s and GP9s at Palmer. Back then, I often augmented existing light with a hand held Metz electronic strobe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our most recent trip, I made a long exposures of New England Central GP38-2 2168 working purely with existing light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this exercise, I braved 10F degrees in a light coat with my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens mounted firmly on a 3Pod Everest tripod. I made a series of 15 second exposures using the Nikon NEF RAW format and then adjusted the files in Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NEF format offers exceptional dynamic range which allowed me to significanly lighten the shadow areas to reveal impressive amounts of detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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