{"id":15761,"date":"2016-06-22T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15761"},"modified":"2016-06-17T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:18:50","slug":"details-revaled-slug-set-over-the-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/details-revaled-slug-set-over-the-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Details Revaled: Slug Set over the Connecticut."},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 15, 2016, I posted two views of Pan Am Railway\u2019s leased Slug Set working in East Deerfield hump service and paused on the Connecticut River Bridge east of the yard.<\/p>\n

I asked readers to voice an opinion on their preferred image, while explaining that one was exposed on black & white film the traditional way and the other exposed digitally as a monochrome image.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve weighed the comments, email and Facebook messages and found that the response was more or less evenly split, with a slight leaning to the top image (film). One respondent voiced a dislike of both images (see comments).<\/p>\n

Below are the two vertical images with details of how they were made.<\/p>\n

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Number 1; exposed on Ilford HP5 black & white negative film using a Leica 3A with Nikkor 35mm lens. Processed in Kodak HC110 developer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Number 2. This digital image was made using my FujiFilm X-T1 in a monochrome mode. I altered the output through the addition of a digital ‘red’ filter, that slightly darkened the green and blue areas of the image including the locomotive on the bridge. This adjustment was made in-camera, not in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both images were scaled for internet presentation using Lightroom.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light publishes everyday.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 15, 2016, I posted two views of Pan Am Railway\u2019s leased Slug Set working in East Deerfield hump service and paused on the Connecticut River Bridge east of the yard. I asked readers to voice an opinion on their preferred image, while explaining that one was exposed on black & white film the … Continue reading Details Revaled: Slug Set over the Connecticut.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3786,3814,4537,1490,241,3606,676],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Slug_Set_crossing_connecticut_River_Jun10_2016\u00a9Brian-Solomon-582710.jpg?fit=2536%2C1577","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-46d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15762,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions\/15762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}