Tuesday evening I took my camera downtown to capture some night images. My last stop was the Bathurst Bridge over the rail line heading to and from Union Station.
Catching an interesting image requires skill and sometimes, a lot of luck. I spent more than an hour at this location waiting for trains to come and go with the hope that I could get the timing just right and capture an interesting photo.
Exposure was a challenge. I wanted the train light trails to be long with no breaks, and given the relativley slow speed of the trains, it meant an exposure time of about 30 seconds. In order to achieve this and not blow out the rest of the photo, I reduced the aperature to f22, set the ISO at 64, and set composure compensation to -4. Normally I don’t use small aperatures to avoid refraction, but these settings reduced the amount of light coming into the camera allowing for the longer exposure needed to get this image.