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It was a dull June evening at Jefferson Drive in Greenfield, Lancaster, Pa., where I’ve made countless photographs over the last three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this occasion, I planned to pan the approaching westward Amtrak Keystone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading the train was one of the freshly painted former Metroliner <\/em>cab control cars, while Amtrak ACS-64 No. 642, wearing its Veterans paint scheme, brought up the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than use an extremely slow shutter speed, I opted for a comparatively short exposure that still allowed for a pleasing degree of motion blur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed using a Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm zoom set to 60mm; 400 ISO, f4.0, 1\/640th of a second. NEF RAW file converted to DNG format using DxO PureRaw with Prime3 to minimize the effects of lens defects.<\/em> Cosmetic adjustments using Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exposed using a Nikon Z6 with 24-70mm zoom set to 60mm; 400 ISO, f4.0, 1\/320th of a second. <\/em> NEF RAW file converted to DNG format using DxO PureRaw with Prime3 to minimize the effects of lens defects.<\/em> Cosmetic adjustments using Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light<\/em> explores railroad photographic technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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