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IYFF

            In Your Face Friday.  It's a thing, apparently.

I took this image on an afternoon where I was practicing shooting using AF-C 'continuous' autofocus.  That's right, previous to this I was back in the stone age prefocusing on a spot on the track and then shooting the train once it reached there.  That method seemed to be the best on the 20 year old Olympus that I used to reacquaint myself with photography, and I had carried that method over to my 'new' Nikon in 2023.   It wasn't until I was comparing notes with another fan trackside that it came to light that I was doing things 'the hard way'.

The composition of this image isn't good.  The train is too close, the rails don't taper out of frame at the exact corner, and I missed keeping the entire crossing signal in the picture.

It doesn't bother me.  I'm just pleased that of my 'practice' shots of the daily afternoon parade of eastbounds that CP's Coquitlam Yard spits out, I finally got one in focus using this 'new' to me method.

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Township of Langley / Port Hammond (show map)

Taken on: November 26, 2023

Tags:

CPKC

Maple Meadows

Cascade Subdivision

Port Hammond

#304

Grain Train

ES44AC

Railroad

Railway « less

Sets appears in: • Vancouver & The Fraser Valley

Camera: Nikon D750, f/8.0, 1/640 sec, 290mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D750
Lens:	50.0-500.0 mm f/4.5-6.3
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	290mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows)
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