{"id":45071,"date":"2026-09-12T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45071"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:19:44","slug":"ghost-of-the-western-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ghost-of-the-western-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of the Western Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We paid a nocturnal visit to Middletown, Pa., where I photographed Middletown & Hummelstown\u2019s Alco S-6 switcher in Western Maryland paint from Brown Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked entirely from ambient light, which included street lights near the railroad yard, and a background glow from the nearby Harrisburg Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens, ISO 200, f4.0, 25 seconds.<\/em> Viewing the scaled file on my computer, screen the stars are evident in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens, ISO 200, f4.0, 25 seconds.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens, ISO 200, f4.0, 25 seconds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With my Nikon Z7-II mounted on a 3Pod tripod, I exposed a series of relatively long exposures with the camera set to low ISO (200) to allow for greater data capture. My exposures were nearly 30 seconds. In post processing, I reduced overall contrast, lightened shadow areas to reveal detail not evident with the naked eye, and controlled highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With my Nikon Z7-II mounted on a 3Pod tripod, I exposed a series of relatively long exposures with the camera set to low ISO (200) to allow for greater data capture. My exposures were nearly 30 seconds. In post processing, I reduced overall contrast, lightened shadow areas to reveal detail not evident with the naked eye, and controlled highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[10],"tags":[5131,7674],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bIX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45071"}],"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=45071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45079,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45071\/revisions\/45079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}