This is a follow up to my popular post ‘Trash’, from January, featuring Norfolk Southern on the New Holland Branch (New Holland Secondary) at Willow Road in Lanscaster, Pa., which generated near-record interest on TTL.
In that, I examine my composition of a pastoral setting:
“Beautiful over-the-shoulder morning winter sun made for excellent lighting conditions. I made a few digital images and exposed some color slides with the Leica M4.
When I downloaded the digital images, I discovered to my dismay that at the time of exposure I’d failed to notice the bit of red trash in the tree branches. Poor show!”
For comparison, the image displayed in this post is one of the 35mm Ektachrome color slides that I exposed on that day. In this view, I’d cropped the offending trash from the scene.
There’s something to be said for working with an old school rangefinder!
Film processed and mounted by AgX Imaging in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Digitized using a Nikon LS-5000 slide scanner.
Tracking the Light works with film and digital images!
Norfolk Southern’s H28 was on the roll east on the New Holland Branch.
I arrived at my pre-selected location just as the lights began to flash.
My hope was to place the stream in the foreground to break up the scene while balancing the train with trees at the left. I was focused on my compositional ratios.
Beautiful over-the-shoulder morning winter sun made for excellent lighting conditions. I made a few digital images and exposed some color slides with the Leica M4.
When I downloaded the digital images, I discovered to my dismay that at the time of exposure I’d failed to notice the bit of red trash in the tree branches. Poor show!
The film remains latent. I hope the slides have better composition.
Tracking the Light explores the successes and failures of individual railroad images.
