{"id":43033,"date":"2025-12-07T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43033"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:38:22","slug":"nocturnal-passing-at-bird-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nocturnal-passing-at-bird-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturnal Passing at Bird-in-Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few weeks back I tried to freeze Amtrak’s passing at Bird-in-Hand in the gloom of evening, only to be disappointed by my inability to use a fast enough shutter speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to Thursday night: with a Nikon Z6-III firmly fixed to my 3Pod tripod, I was fiddling with the focus with a Nikkor f1.4 50mm when the rails lit up with an approaching train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first few frames were not sharp enough, but the last couple showing the trailing ACS-64 on a westward Amtrak Keystone<\/em> met with my satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full moon lit up the sky and a street light cast enough light on the passing train; this, combined with a 64000 ISO sensitivity setting, enabled me to use 1\/200th of a second shutter speed with the 50mm at its widest opening (f1.4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I processed the NEF RAW file using DxO PureRaw to de-noise the effects of high-ISO and correct lens defects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light examines rail photography!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A full moon lit up the sky and a street light cast enough light on the passing train; this, combined with a 64000 ISO sensitivity setting, enabled me to use 1\/200th of a second shutter speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43036,"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":[5028,7802,4547],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204-Amtrak_Keystone_649_Bird-in_Hand_PA\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_0090-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1369","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bc5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033"}],"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=43033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43037,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033\/revisions\/43037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}