{"id":42756,"date":"2025-11-07T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:51:03","slug":"iso-6400-action-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/iso-6400-action-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO 6400 Action at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a full moon. The sun had just set. I heard a distant whistle at Willow Road on the New Holland Branch. This was Norfolk Southern’s New Holland local returning west. So, with little time to squander I made my way to the familiar grade crossing at Jefferson Drive in Lancaster, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the 25-car freight approached the crossing, I made this series of images handheld, while gently panning the lead locomotive. My Nikon Z6 was set to ISO 6400. To minimize noise, I processed the NEF RAW files with DxO PureRaw, then implemented cosmetic refinement in Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens; ISO 6400, 1\/20th sec at f4.0. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens; ISO 6400, 1\/15th sec at f4.0. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens; ISO 6400, 1\/40th sec at f4.0. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm lens; ISO 6400, 1\/6th sec at f4.0. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Examines Railroad Photography!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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