{"id":41442,"date":"2025-03-30T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41442"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:11:56","slug":"fast-pan-acs64-644-on-no-654","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fast-pan-acs64-644-on-no-654\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Pan\u2014ACS64 644 on No. 654"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like to convey motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve made hundreds of pan photos\u2014where the camera moves along with the subject to set the background off in a see of motion-blur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For slow moving trains, I&#8217;ve typically panned at 1\/30th or 1\/60th of a second, and sometimes a slow as 1\/2 second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day at Greenfield in Lancaster, I panned Amtrak ACS64 644 trailing on train 654 at 1\/400th of a second. Since the train was accelerating to a speed of just over 100mph, even this relative short shutter speed still allowed for a successful pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-attachment-id=\"41443\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fast-pan-acs64-644-on-no-654\/20250325-amtrak_acs-64_644_on_train_654_dsc_3457\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?fit=2048%2C1364\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1364\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 7_2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1742937662&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;BRIAN_SOLOMON&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?fit=709%2C472\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?fit=474%2C316\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457-1022x681.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?resize=1022%2C681 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?resize=709%2C472 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?resize=205%2C137 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?resize=1536%2C1023 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exposed using a Nikon Z7-II with 70-200mm zoom set at 70mm, f5.0 1\/400. NEF RAW file processed using DxO PureRaw to create a DNG file. This was adjusted for color, contrast and exposure in Adobe Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a269dfa5cf8c941a911756e96a3602ce\" style=\"color:#0c398a\"><strong>Tracking the Light Posts Everyday!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to convey motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41443,"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":[5028,7100,5370],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250325-Amtrak_ACS-64_644_on_train_654_DSC_3457.jpg?fit=2048%2C1364","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aMq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442"}],"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=41442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41444,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41442\/revisions\/41444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}