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Scoot Streak

            It's blue hour on January 30th, 2020 and an eastbound Metra "Scoot" rushes towards its next station stop at Elmhurst, Illinois.

I haven't been up to much photographically lately. I'm having trouble matching free time and good light up together. So not much new, alas. Hopefully I can get a rhythm going again soon.

In the meantime, I have a couple of odds and ends projects going. One is trying out Nikon's surprise announcement of NX Studio. It's a processing/database program similar to Adobe Lightroom. I've had misgivings for awhile about where Adobe is going with Lightroom and have been mildly looking for a replacement for if and when Adobe drops the Classic version of Lightroom and forces everyone to use the cloud based Lightroom. I'm not going to subscribe to Adobe's cloud service just to process and catalog my photos. 

I'm still working out my feelings on NX Studio (it was just announced a couple of days ago, so I haven't been able to work my way through all of it yet) but it's nice to know that there's a free Lightroom-esque program for my Nikon files available. The processing part of NX Studio is basically the same as Capture NX-D which I always found gave the best results for RAW processing of Nikon files.

I've also been digging through some old forgotten folders. This shot was one of hundreds that I had forgotten about on my little Coolpix A. It's about as technically imperfect as it gets but there's an aesthetic to it that I think I like. Even if it's trash (which it well might be) at least it's something to post. Given that I'm not producing anything lately, posting a potential garbage picture like this is at least something...

Here's hoping I can find some well aligned free time and good light soon.

Taken on: January 30, 2020

Tags:

Metra

Blue Hour

Railroad

Locomotive

Blur

Motion Blur

Night

Nikon Coolpix A « less

Sets appears in: • Trains and Railroading

Groups appears in: • Nikon CoolPix A Photo group

Camera: Nikon COOLPIX A, f/5.0, 1/5 sec, 18.5mm (=28mm), ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon COOLPIX A
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.2 sec (1/5)
Focal Length:	18.5mm (35mm equivalent: 28mm)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1 (Windows)
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