{"id":45316,"date":"2026-10-31T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45316"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:19:04","slug":"nice-lights-at-tamaqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nice-lights-at-tamaqua\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Lights at Tamaqua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this month, we paused at Tamaqua in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, this has become one of our regular places to look for locomotives and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setting reminds me of my old \u201cWee Reading Company\u201d HO-scale interpretation of the Reading. Although my yard was set at West Cressona, in practice it more closely resembled the north end of Tamaqua Yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, on this most recent visit, we found that Reading & Northern had installed some excellent lighting in the vicinity of the sidings where locomotives are stored between runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these images with my Nikon Z6-III with 24-70mm lens mounted on a 3Pod tripod. This allowed me to work at a relatively low ISO (200), permitting greater data capture and less noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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24-70mm set to 68mm, ISO 200, 1.6 seconds at f4.0. NEF RAW file adjusted with Lightroom.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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24-70mm set to 43mm, ISO 200, 13 seconds at f6.3. NEF RAW file adjusted with Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

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