{"id":44884,"date":"2026-08-13T07:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44884"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:36:15","slug":"seeing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/seeing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing in the Dark."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was only the faintest hint of blue in the evening sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could hear Norfolk Southern\u2019s 36A approaching as I walked back along the road to the Safe Harbor Bridge\u2014 itself an old railroad alignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these images, I preset and locked my focus on the tall trestle and dialed in a +1\/3 exposure compensation to boost the amount of light reaching the sensor. Working in aperture-priority (A) mode with the lens set to its widest opening (f\/1.4), my Nikon Z6-III automatically set the shutter speed: 1\/8 second for the first image and 1\/10 second for the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I panned the head end of the freight as it rolled across the lower bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you see here has considerably more detail and appears much brighter than what I saw with my naked eye at the time of exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEF RAW file, processed with PureRaw5 with DeepPrime3 lens corrections and demosiacing, converted to DNG format and cosmetically adjusted using DxOPhotolab9. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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NEF RAW file, processed with PureRaw5 with DeepPrime3 lens corrections and demosiacing, converted to DNG format and cosmetically adjusted using DxOPhotolab9. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light has explored railroad photography for 14 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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