Today’s post was a random draw. I reached into my ‘scan selection’ and pulled out this slide.
Exposed in San Francisco on September 6, 2009, this is a morning view of the front of a PCC streetcar assigned to the Muni F-Line.
I made this using one of my EOS-3 cameras loaded with Fujichrome.
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In 1988, while I was attending the Rochester Institute of Technology, I shared a rented apartment in Scottsville, New York.
Among the benefits of the apartment was that it was in earshot of the former Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh line to Rochester, operated by Genesee & Wyoming start-up Rochester & Southern.
On the afternoon of February 18, 1988, the horn of the southward RS-1 (mixed through freight from Brooks Avenue Yard in Rochester to East Salamanca, New York) was sounding for a crossing. Track speed wasn’t very fast, so I had time to catch the train and follow it in the afternoon light.
Between Garbutt and P&L Junction, I made this view on Kodachrome 25 slide film of the leading locomotive, a former New York Central GP40.
A Kodachrome in Kodachrome light of a southward Rochester & Southern freight from Rochester, New York, the home of Kodak. A few days after exposure I sent the film to Kodak’s Rochester processing plant, which was returned to me later in the day.
This was among a group of slides that I rejected and sorted into a box labled ‘seconds and thirds’. I scanned it last week for presentation here.
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On Valentine’s Day, Kris and I attended the Fire & Ice Festival in Lititz, Pa.
I’ve included some railroad content as part of the selection of photos exposed with my FujiFilm XT-1.
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The other night wind was fierce, but I braved the conditions to make a photo at dusk of Amtrak’s westward 649-Keystone—passing Christiana, Pa., on the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line.
To capture the action, I’d set the ISO setting on my Nikon Z7-II to 4000, which allowed me 1/1000th of a seond at f2.8. I’d set the focal length of my 70-200 zoom to 150mm, which gave me a good view of the old PRR station to the right of the train.
This view was processed using Lightroom to boost color saturation, correct color balance, and improve both contrast and exposure. I may later import this Nikon RAW file into DxO Pure Raw to see how that software improves the image.
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In early September 1991, I was documenting Southern Pacific 4-8-4 No. 4449 with fellow photographer, and noted Southern Pacific author Brian L. Jennison. In between sets of the steam locomotive, we took the time to photograph SP’s freights.
Summer midday sun in the canyons of northern California presented difficult lighting conditions to make photographs using Kodachrome.
Here we were in the Sacramento River Canyon near Conant, California to catch SP’s westward EUWC-M (Eugene to West Colton manifest). I’d set up my Nikon F3T on a Bogen 3021 tripod in vertical (portrait) format in order to capture the train with the famed Castle Crags rock formation in the distance.
My lens of choice was an old Nikkor f4.0 200mm telephoto lens that I’d purchased secondhand a year earlier. This lens was tricky to focus, but offered a wonderful soft color palette that helped compensate for the summer ‘high sun’.
As SP’s EUWC-M came into view I exposed a series of slides. I’d edited some of the other views and filed them away more than 30 years ago, but this one had remained in the yellow Kodak box until a few days ago.
I’ve been gradually sorting, scanning, labeling and filing thousands of my older slides. Although this is a very tight view, it makes me nostalgic for the days when Southern Pacific’s EMD diesels populated the rails of the West. I was especially fond of SP’s classic headlight arrangement that included both fixed and oscillating headlights and a red oscillating warning light, such as featured on SP SD45T-2 9260.
This was before the use of ditch lights predominated on American locomotives.
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On a visit to Stockholm in May 2010, I made this color slide of a Coradia Duplex X40 long-distance electric multiple unit.
My framing inadvertently visually aligned the curves on the front of the train with a steeple in the background. This created an illusion of the train carrying a tall pompous crown.
Exposed on Fujichrome with a Canon EOS-3 with 100mm lens.
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Kris called this a ‘bonus train’. We weren’t anticipating this move. But, it was neat to catch this eastward Norfolk Southern unit train (consisting of covered hoppers) as it crossed the Susquehanna River via the former Pennsylvania Railroad Rockville Bridge.
The repetative patterns offered by the arches and off-white hoppers against the backdrop of distant hills makes for a visually compelling scene.
I made these views using my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm lens.
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Sun and clouds. I aimed my Leica M2 at MBTA 905, a former New Haven Railroad GP9 with a complicated lineage.
I like the contrast of the silver locomotive against an old factory shadowed by a cloud.
This is an image characteristic of Kodachrome. This film rendered excellent color in bright sunlight, but tended to result in dark images in cloudy conditions, which was function of its reduced sensativity to the blue spectrum.
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In April 2007, standing on the road bridge east of Limerick Junction, I framed one of Irish Rail’s relatively new Mark4 trains with an antique rod-operated mechanical semaphore. The Mark4 driving trailer was leading the train with an Enterprise painted Class 201 diesel at the back of the set.
The Mark4 train set entered service in 2006, while the signal was retired in late 2010.
This was exposed on Fujichrome film using a Nikon F3.
I scanned the slide with a Nikon LS5000 slide scanner powered by VueScan 98.4.2 software. This enabled me to make a multiple pass scan to maximize data capture. I then conducted final processing of the TIF file using Adobe Lightroom to better balance color, exposure and contrast.
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This is a follow up to Thursday’s post.
Not long after the eastward Norfolk Southern intermodal train came to a stop east of SIP 116 to change crews, the westward intermodal train that we’d been anticipating came into view.
This scene unfolded nicely, and I made a series of photos as the trains passed one another on the old Pennsylvania Railroad ‘Middle Division’ at Cove, Pa.
Bright sun and freight trains on the move brought me back to another time, when photographer Mike Gardner and I caught a series of Conrail freights at this same location.
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Last Saturday was clear and bright, so Kris and I headed over to the famed Rockville Bridge over the Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
When we arrived there was a set of Norfolk Southern locomotives sitting on the bridge and it appeared that scene was set for some action.
We made some photos of the bridge and a few pictures of each other with the iconic spans before heading up river to catch trains on the move. Nice sunlight was a good start, and on this day Norfolk Southern didn’t disappoint . . .
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This is not a class. It’s a streetcar!
My first visit to Media, Pa., was more than 45 years ago. On that trip, my family rode from the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby on a December evening in a vintage Brilliner trolley car. At the time the car was more than 40 years old. I’d made an underexposed Kodachrome slide of the car in the inky darkness
Kris and I made a Media visit in January. On this adventure I caught one of SEPTA’s early 1980s-vintage Kawasaki Cars working the single track line on State Street in midday sun.
SEPTA has plans to retire these relics in another few years, and I was happy to make a few digital photo of this car.
More Media photos will follow over the coming days.
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The morning of 15 September 2006 was clear and bright. It was the third attempt we made to catch Irish Rail’s Ballina-Dublin Norfolk liner from a vantage point in this field near Ballyvary, Co. Mayo.
On this day, many of the containers carried by the train were actually Norfolk Line boxes. While this may seem unremarkable, in practice it was relatively unusual, and on many days the train carried an assortment of 20 and 40 foot containers.
Norfolk Line was a component of the Maersk Group. Years later, this train became the IWT Liner, which years ago was a regular feature on Tracking the Light, as I often photograph it on my extended visits to Ireland.
I have a variety of connections with name Norfolk. My wife Kris grew up in the town of Norfolk, Massachusetts, and in recent years we have paid several visits to Norfolk, thus the photographs of MBTA near the Norfolk Station.
These days, American Class I carrier Norfolk Southern is among my regular subjects, including its local freights on the New Holland and Lititz Secondaries and on former Pennsylvania Railroad main lines.
A decade before I was born, my father paid visits to the Norfolk & Western to photograph their magnificent steam locomotives at work. I have often featured these images in my books, as well as N&W photos from other photographers, including the late John E. Pickett and Jim Shaughnessy.
Ten years ago, fellow photographer Pat Yough and I traveled to Norfolk, Virginia where we visited the Norfolk Southern Museum (that displayed one of my photos on the wall) and traveled on Norfolk’s The Tide lightrail system.
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Today’s Tracking the Light is a ‘happy birthday’ to my brother Séan who was born on this day in 1970!
In this photo, Amtrak’s southward Vermonter, Train 55, crosses the Connecticut River near Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Back in 2012, Séan encouraged me start a blog, having enjoyed success with his own internet postings on his Sanguine Root.
The Vermonter will turn 30 in April this year!
The photo was exposed in 2014 using my Canon 7D fitted with an f2.0 100mm Canon telephoto. The image was exposed in Canon CR2 RAW format, converted to DNG format using DxO PureRAW 4, then imported into Lightroom for final adjustment and then saved in JPG format for presentation here.
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What is 15 degrees Fahrenheit equal in Celsius? My short answer is that 15F is too cold to leave the pub, so Google it on your phone and then we’ll both know!
Sometimes Seamus-the-Dog and I take short adventures together. Last week we nipped over to Strasburg just after sunset. Cold weather often contributes to great evening light and I was looking for an excuse to work with my 3Pod Everest tripod.
Something called an ‘Everest’ just doesn’t convey the sense of a warm weather device, and I bought this tripod for my winter night photography.
While Seamus sat in the comparative warmth of the car, I made a series of photos of the Strasburg Rail Road in the fading glow of a cold evening.
Among the benefits of my 3Pod tripod is that its easy to set up. This is an important consideration when the stinging winter air limits the amount of time I’m willing to invest in night photos before I run out of patience.
Gloves would be a good thing to consider next time around, and perhaps a scarf!
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The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will be hosting me on Saturday, February 25, 2025 from 10 to noon. Advanced booking is required. The Museum’s promotion reads:
“Here’s your chance to learn some great tips and techniques for photographing your favorite locomotives and railroad cars, in a class led by noted railroad photographer and author Brian Solomon.
Bring your smart phone, digital camera or film camera and get ready to take some memorable photos of the Museum’s historic equipment, like the Virginia & Truckee Railroad Tahoe, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4935 and the Conrail GP30 No. 2233
The Railroad Photography 101 class will be held on Tuesday, February 25, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. The cost is only $25.00 per person. The class size is limited to 15 individuals and is designed for beginning photographers ages 18 and over. The inclement weather is date Tuesday, March 4.
Brian Solomon earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He produces a daily blog about railroad photography and his articles and photography have appeared in many railway magazines including Trains Magazine, Railway Age, Railroad Explorer, Railfan & Railroad, National Railroad Historical Society Bulletin, Germany’s Modelleisenbahner, the Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society and the UK’s Rail Magazine. Brian was presented with the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society’s prestigious Fred A.& Jane R. Stindt Photography Award in 2022 for his lifetime achievements in railroad photography. “
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/railroad-photography-101-tickets-1207620317879?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Sometimes I dream that I’m lost in some foreign city. I’m waiting for a tram, trying to get somewhere. I get distracted trying to make a photo. I follow someone and I end up somwhere else. I never see the sky. I never reach my desintation.
I awake and my photos vanish with the dream.
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Why make photographs in the same places of the same trains over the course of days, months, years?
This pair of images shows one reason. So often, even the same train at the same place looks different every time you photograph it.
Both of the photos below were made of Irish Rail’s V250 (laden sugarbeet train that ran from Wellingtonbridge Co. Wexford to Mallow, Co. Cork.) The photos were made within a few feet of one another in late 2005; these were exposed a few weeks apart, in the final weeks of Irish Rail’s final sugarbeet campaign.
Although both were made at approximately the same time of day, the lighting was completely different. In one the lighting was dull, in the other, the light dramatic because the sun was emerging from layers of cloud. In both photos, a mixed pair of Class 121/141 diesels were running around their train—a move necessary because of the lack a direct curve that would have allowed a direct move from Waterford to Cork.
The dull-light photo offers greater historical perspective. Beyond locomotive 134 is one of Irish Rail’s new InterCity ‘Mark IV’ passenger trains. While the sugarbeet concluded in January 2006, the MarkIV trains wouldn’t enter revenue service until May of that year.
I traveled on the first revenue Mark IV from Dublin to Cork. A few years later, I was a member of the group that worked with Irish Rail to preserve 134. This locomotive is representative of the General Motors end cab diesels bought by CIE in 1961, which were the first EMD’s in Ireland, and among the earliest EMD’s exported to Europe directly from LaGrange, Illinois. (Early, but not the first).
So which is the more memorable photo? Interestingly, both are from my ‘seconds’, since neither image was deemed ‘first cut’ at the time of processing. There’s at least one lesson in that fact.
For both photos, the stories I can’t tell will make for interesting history in the future.
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Action photos at night are among my most challenging photographic endeavors.
The ability to increase the camera’s ISO to extremes makes capturing moving trains in the inky gloom easier than in my film days. Further aiding these efforts is AI technology used to minimize noise and other camera induced visual defects.
Previously on Tracking the Light, I’ve explored night photos enhanced using DxO Pure Raw software, which I’ve found remarkable.
For this image exposed at Windsor Locks, Connecticut of a southward CT Rail Hartford Line commuter train, I used Lightroom’s ‘denoise’ feature instead of DxO’s Pure Raw.
At some point, I made preform a more detail comparison.
I found that the ‘denoised’ image was in many ways superior to the straight RAW image.
You should see three images below. In addition to a scaled version of the full-frame RAW image, I’ve included two enlargements, one before and one after applying Lightroom’s ‘denoise’ feature.
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Last week I swung by Lititz, Pa.
Working a vestige of the old Reading & Columbia Line was Norfolk Southern’s H23 local freight.
The power for this short train was SD60E 6987, a distinctive variaty of six-motor diesel that feature’s NS’s blunt-nose ‘Crescent Cab’.
I made this view using my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm Z-series zoom.
Someday the ordinary will be seen as remarkable.
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In March 1997, I paid a visit to the Canaan, Connecticut Union Station and made a series of photos. In October 2001 a fire destroyed much of the historic structure. A commendable restoration effort repaired the damage and returned the classic building to its former glory.
Kris, Seamus and I paid a brief visit to Canaan in November 2024, and I made series of contempory photos using my Nikon Z7-II.
The Penn-Central era sign is a nice touch
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In April 2005, I made a bunch of photos on Dublin’s recently opened LUAS tram network.
I loaded Fuji Sensia II (ISO 100) into my Contax G2 rangefinder. Although I exposed the photos using my normal formula, the roll was returned to me uniformly over processed. This resulted in substantially lighter slides than I’d expected.
Despite this problem, there was relatively little data lost. I scanned some of the slides the other day. I was easily able to restore this image by making some basic corrections to overall exposure, highlight and shadow detail, plus minor color corrections. Both the original over-processed chrome (too light) and the corrected version should appear below.
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On October 4, 1993, I paid a visit to Groveton, NH to photograph this NHV GP9 working trackage around the old paper mill.
It was a dark morning, so I was working with Kodak E100 LPP Ektachrome that was rated at ISO 100, two stops faster than my staple color film: Kodachrome 25.
Despite the faster film, I badly miscalculated exposure and the resulting color slide was too dark for presentation. For more than 30 years, it sat in a Kodak box labeled ‘Seconds’ along with a host of other rare photos, including an Alco RS-11 passing the ball signal at Whitefield exposed earlier the same day.
To rescue the Groveton photo, I made a multiple-pass scan using a Nikon LS-5000 scanner driven by VueScan software. I significantly increased the sample rate to minimize the loss of data. Then I imported the RAW file into Lightroom, where I made a variety of heavy-handed adjustments to lighten shadows and hold detail in the sky in order to make for a more pleasing photograph.
Here, I’ve posted bothe unadjusted ‘dark’ photo, and my post processed version aimed to restore the scene so that it looked more like I recall the light on that morning many years ago.
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On our January 2007 Austrian epic, photographer Denis McCabe and I drove a hired car up a hill at Penk in the Alps to score this view of a massive arched bridge on the Tauern Pass.
Traffic over the route is light compared with either the Brenner or Semmering alpine routes. Yet, we caught several trains in a relatively short span of time.
Here, an ÖBB Siemens Taurus electric leads an Intercity passenger bound for Villach in southern Austria.
The scale of the bridge seems out of proportion with the railway; its like an O-scale structure carrying an N-scale train.
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In mid January 2007, I was visiting Austria with photographer Denis McCabe.
On one cool sunny evening, we had set up at Brixlegg, where ÖBB crosses the River Inn. The view west presented the shadowy wall of an Alpine ridge, accentuated by patches of snow.
As the final golden solar rays of this January day graced the rails, I made a series of Fujichrome slides of an ÖBB Bombardier-built Talent railcar on its eastward journey across the Inn.
I’d borrowed a Canon EF75-300mm lens from Denis, and used this with my Canon EOS-3 camera.
The other night, I scanned some of these slides using a Nikon LS-5000 scanner.
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And an SW8.
Working with my Fuji XT1, I made a series of 1/2 to 3 second exposures of Strasburg Rail Road SW8 8618 by the light of the full moon.
While, I had the benefit of a 3Pod Tripod, I didn’t have the use of the specially made clip that holds the camera to the ball head. Unfortunately, that was attached to my Nikon Z7-II, which I’d left at home.
I made due by firmly holding the camera to the tripod during exposure.
After importing the RAF Raw files, I converted these to PNG format using DxO Pure Raw software, and then imported the converted file into Adobe Lightroom for adjustment.
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I’ve been making shadowy photos of trains at Palmer, Massachusetts in the gloom of night since the early 1980s. In my early days, I made black & white night photos of Central Vermont RS-11s and GP9s at Palmer. Back then, I often augmented existing light with a hand held Metz electronic strobe.
On our most recent trip, I made a long exposures of New England Central GP38-2 2168 working purely with existing light.
For this exercise, I braved 10F degrees in a light coat with my Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens mounted firmly on a 3Pod Everest tripod. I made a series of 15 second exposures using the Nikon NEF RAW format and then adjusted the files in Adobe Lightroom.
The NEF format offers exceptional dynamic range which allowed me to significanly lighten the shadow areas to reveal impressive amounts of detail.
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Palmer, Massachusetts; then and now.
Since Spring 1999, CSX GP40-2s have worked the Palmer local.
I’ve paired two views of CSX GP40-2s on the local at CP83 (control point 83, as measured in miles west of Boston, Ma). In both photos, the lead locomotive is positioned in almost exactly the same place.
The first photo was exposed on Fujichrome using my Contax G2 rangefinder in June 2005, this is from the north side of the tracks; the second was made a few days after Christmas 2024 with my Nikon Z7-II, from the south side of the tracks. Both views feature the trackside billboard, which has been there in one form or another since at least the mid-1940s.
My friend Bob Buck had photographed steam locomotives at this same location with the billboard (or one of its early predecessors).
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On a rainy December afternoon, Kris and I met my old friend Dan and his wife Mary at Palmer’s Steaming Tender for lunch.
We were seated by a window facing the Boston & Albany—today’s CSX’s Boston Line.
The rails were alive and freight trains were on the roll.
Some time after a very long westward manifest freight cleared the diamond (where CSX crossed New England Central at grade), a local freight arrived to work the yard with a set of three GP40-2s.
For more than 25 years these vintage EMD’s have be stalwarts on the Palmer local. I complimented the crew on their ‘antiques’, but they seemed unimpressed with the old diesels.
I made these images from our seat as the engines arrived.
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It was late in December 2024.
Soft evening light at the Norfolk, Mass., station on the Franklin Line made for interesting conditions to picture the arriving train. For the last few years, MBTA has been working on completing the second track here. As of a couple of weeks ago, the project remained unfinished.
I could hear the MBTA F40PH-3 from the time it accelerated away from its Walpole, Mass., station stop. Before long the headlight came into view at the east end of the long tangent. I was ready, cameras in hand.
Exposed using a Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens.
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On October 24, 2004, I used my Contax G2 rangefinder fitted with a 45mm Zeiss lens to capture VIA Rail’s The Ocean (from Halifax) crossing the Lachine Canal at Wellington on approach to Montreal Central Station.
Cool weather and a still morning contributed to the mirror-like surface on the canal water.
The lead locomotive was an F40PH-2 painted to advertise the motion picture Spiderman-2.
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The other night, I used my Nikon Z7-II to capture the constellation Orion in the evening sky.
Although an amazing camera, when fitted with the Z-series 24-70mm lens, this picture making combination suffers from vignetting when used at the widest aperture.
I needed an 4.0 aperture to picture the starry sky while keeping my total exposure time to just 30 seconds, when set at ISO 200.
To minimize the effects of the vignette, I converted the NEF RAW file to a PNG file using DxO Pure Raw software. Once converted, I imported this file into Lightroom to make a few corrections.
Below is both the adjusted file direct from the NEF RAW, and the adjusted PNG file to show the advantage offered by converting the RAW using Pure Raw.
The light streaks moving through the image are from an eastward Amtrak Keystone bound for Philadelphia on the old PRR Main Line. Please note that in both versions, the images have been compressed by the Word Press platform used by Tracking the Light to display the photos via the internet.
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This isn’t about one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs—althought it could be . . .
On the eve of my 38th birthday, I gazed across the Peel Basin on the Lachine Canal in Montreal toward the rising autumn sun. Photographer Tim Doherty and I were on the last day of an epic trip to Montreal.
As we awaited the arrival of VIA Rail’s The Ocean from Halifax, I worked with my Contax G2 rangefinder to compose a view of the grain elevators on the far side of the water, making the most of the reflections in the still morning light.
This slide was among the hundreds from that trip that had sat in the dark until a few days ago. One of the benefits of film is that you can leave processed images unattended for decades without risk of losing them to a hard drive failure.
My pictures of the long distance Budd train are pretty nice too.
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Recently I’ve scoured my collection looking for representative photos to print.
I still like to see my images in analog format, and a moderate size print offers a great way to study photographic quality in ways that may not be apparent when viewed digitally.
I’ve sent two orders of out. One to Adorama’s Printique service for 8×12 inch prints. The other to Shutterfly for 8×10 inch prints. This included a mix of old film photos and digital images from over the years, including some very recent images. In both instances, I selected ‘matte’ surface, because I’ve found that this holds up better and is easier to scan.
My print orders are expected to arrive on Thursday, which should allow me to compare print quality from the two suppliers, and allow me to enjoy my photographs. Kris and I have some surplus photo frames, so maybe a few will soon decorate our walls!
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The other night, New England Central’s former Canadian National GP40-2L 3038 was working the yard at Palmer, Mass.
This was an opportunity for me to make some High ISO photographs for experimentation and comparison using the DxO Pure Raw 4 software to denoise and correct for lens defects.
In this situation, I was especially interested in seeing how well the software corrected for the high-pixelation of the image exposed at 12, 800 ISO using my Nikon Z7-II.
Below are two sets of images. The first is a scaled camera NEF RAW file (plus enlarged detailed view), followed by the same NEF RAW file but processed using DxO Pure Raw 4 software. If everything posts correctly you should see four images.
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I’ve been reviewing and scanning slides that I made on a trip to Quebec in October 2004. While a few of these photos have appeared in my books, most have sat for more than 20 years unattended and unedited.
This slide caught my eye. It shows a westward VIA Rail train west of Coteau, Quebec on the Canadian National. This was a trailing shot that I exposed on Fujichrome using my old Contax G2 rangefinder.
Comcolor in Springfield, Mass., processed the film. and I scanned the slide yesterday using a Nikon Coolscan 5000 (LS-5000) powered by Vuescan 9.8.42.05 software, then made final adjustments using Adobe Lightroom.
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