{"id":13180,"date":"2015-11-25T06:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:38:03","slug":"alcos-at-brooks-avenue-rochester-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/alcos-at-brooks-avenue-rochester-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcos at Brooks Avenue, Rochester, New York."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester & Southern\u2019s yard at Brooks Avenue was just a ten minute drive from the Rochester Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

When I was in college, I had an open arrangement with the railroad to make photographs, and during\u00a0the late 1980s I often dropped by to exercise my cameras.<\/p>\n

In April 1989, I made these photographs of Genesee & Wyoming Alco C-424M 62 on the Brooks Avenue scale track.<\/p>\n

The Alco Century\u2019s well-balanced cab design made these among my favorite classic diesels. I\u2019d photographed the C-424Ms on Delaware & Hudson, Genesee & Wyoming, Guilford, and finally on Livonia, Avon & Lakeville\u2019s Bath & Hammondsport line.<\/p>\n

Here I\u2019ve worked the yard office into my composition that makes for nice juxtaposition of shapes. Black & White film handles the backlit situation well and retained detail in shadows and highlights.<\/p>\n

Compare my telephoto and wide angle views.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on 35mm Kodak Plus-X using a Leica M2 with an f2.0 35mm Summicron lens. Exposure calculated manually using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe photo cell. Image scanned with a Epson Perfection V600 scanner; contrast altered in post processing using Lightroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exposed on 35mm Kodak Plus-X using a Leica M2 with an f4 135mm Elmar lens. Exposure calculated manually using a Sekonic Studio Deluxe photo cell. Image scanned with a Epson Perfection V600 scanner; contrast altered in post processing using Lightroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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