{"id":43049,"date":"2025-12-09T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43049"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:04:42","slug":"night-before-christmas-at-paradise-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/night-before-christmas-at-paradise-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Before Christmas at Paradise Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Strasburg Rail Road’s Night Before Christmas <\/em>excursion was working upgrade from the East Strasburg, Pa., station with engine 90 leading tender first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This offered another great opportunity to test the limits of Nikon’s Z6-III with the ‘fast fifty’ (f1.4 50mm).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sequence was exposed hand held, which allowed me to pan the train as it passed. I had the ISO set to 64000 and this enabled a shutter speed of 1\/100th of second at f1.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not bad for hand held at night! A nearly full moon augmented street lights and Christmas lighting near the tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My next Railroad Photography 101 Class will be held on Saturday Dec 13, 2025 from 9 to 11am at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. The theme to this class will be working with holiday settings, including techniques on how to make better night train photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/…\/railroad-photography-101…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light walks the night.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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