A dreary evening at Mitteneague in West Springfield, Massachusetts was briefly brightened by a wink of drop under sun.
Luckily for me, at the very moment the trees in the distance were illuminated by this unexpected golden glow, I heard CSX’s Selkirk to West Springfield manifest freight Q424 approaching.
I exposed these trailing views with my 90mm f2.0 Fujinon lens.
Below are two variations of each image; one is a JPG made from the RAW without interpretation, the other is an adjusted file to represent what I saw at the time of exposure.
Camera RAW files only represent the information (data) collected by the camera sensor, and rarely display an image as the scene actually appeared, thus the need for interpretation/adjustment during post processing.
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Hi Robert,
There’s a little bit of a back story that I probably should have included.
We were sitting there trackside, and I’d complained how little traffic CSX operated over the B&A in daylight these days. When I saw the sun illuminate the trees I said, ‘That’s pretty nice, worth a shot on its own.’ When I stepped out of the car, I could hear the sounds of an approaching train. It’s like a 6th sense with me.
Brian
Nicely done.