{"id":45133,"date":"2026-09-26T07:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=45133"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:19:27","slug":"45133-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/45133-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A More Traditional Approach to Railroad Night Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday on Tracking the Light, I posted high-ISO action photos of MARC train 544 rolling into the former Pennsylvania Railroad station at Perryville, Maryland. Those photos were made handheld at ISO 20,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the train came to a full stop, I returned to our car to retrieve my 3Pod tripod and swapped lenses, exchanging my \u201cfast 50\u201d for the slower, but more versatile, 24\u201370mm Nikkor Z-series zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With ample time to set up, I exposed a series of static, long-exposure, relatively low-ISO images with the camera solidly fixed on the tripod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is among my favorites. It was made from a low angle with the zoom set to 33mm. I processed the RAW file using PureRAW and made contrast adjustments in Lightroom. On the big screen, you can see stars in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon Z6-III with Nikkor Z 24-70mm f4.0 S\u00a0\u00a0Zoom, set at ISO 500, f4, 1.6 seconds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

With ample time to set up, I exposed a series of static, long-exposure, relatively low-ISO images with the camera solidly fixed on the tripod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[8790,5423,4547,7710],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bJX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45136,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions\/45136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}