{"id":16085,"date":"2016-07-19T05:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=16085"},"modified":"2016-07-17T22:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T02:47:54","slug":"long-hood-at-the-old-station-baraboo-wisconsin-in-black-white-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/long-hood-at-the-old-station-baraboo-wisconsin-in-black-white-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Hood at the Old Station; Baraboo, Wisconsin in Black & White\u2014July 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I exposed these three photos last week on Wisconsin & Southern at Baraboo, Wisconsin using my old Leica 3A loaded with Ilford Pan F black & white film (ISO 50).<\/p>\n

In its heyday, Baraboo was a division point on Chicago & North Western\u2019s Chicago-Madison-Twin Cities main line.<\/p>\n

Its glory days are now more than a century past; decline began in the early twentieth century, when this route was augmented by C&NW\u2019s low-grade Adams Line (via Milwaukee), which became a preferred route for through freight and fast passenger expresses.<\/p>\n

It was severed as a through line in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in an earlier post, on this July 2016 day John Gruber and I were following Wisconsin & Southern\u2019s Madison to Reedsburg freight.<\/p>\n

Some photographers might object to the railroad\u2019s choice of motive power: an SD40-2 operating long-hood first. I recall the wisdom of my late-friend Bob Buck who reminded me once many years ago, \u2018The railroad isn\u2019t operated for your benefit.\u2019<\/p>\n

(In other-words; if a long-hood forward SD40-2 is on offer, that\u2019s what there is and so make the best of it.)<\/p>\n

Compare these images:<\/p>\n

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Photo 1. In this view the harsh overhead light characteristic of ‘high sun’ was briefly soften by a passing fair weather cloud. Some photographers might cringe at the thought of a cloud, but here if offered opportunity for a variation on the scene. I adjusted the contrast of the image in post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo 2. Bright sun again; so with this photograph I used my rangefinder to focus on the trackside weeds instead of Wisconsin & Southern 4008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo 3. John Gruber looks on while Wisconsin & Southern 4008 switches at Baraboo. Exposed on Ilford Pan F using a Leica 3A rangefinder camera fitted with a Nikkor f3.5 35mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In one, I\u2019ve adjusted the contrast to compensate for a cloud that momentarily softened the noonday sunlight.\u00a0In the second, I\u2019ve worked with depth of field and focused on trackside weeds instead of the locomotive. In the last, I\u2019ve included fellow photographer John Gruber to add in a human element.<\/p>\n

Which do you like the best?<\/p>\n

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  I exposed these three photos last week on Wisconsin & Southern at Baraboo, Wisconsin using my old Leica 3A loaded with Ilford Pan F black & white film (ISO 50). In its heyday, Baraboo was a division point on Chicago & North Western\u2019s Chicago-Madison-Twin Cities main line. Its glory days are now more than … Continue reading Long Hood at the Old Station; Baraboo, Wisconsin in Black & White\u2014July 2016.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16087,"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":[3814,4537,3445,2182,2317,29,466,131,3671],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_577617-1.jpg?fit=2574%2C1553","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4br","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085"}],"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=16085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16088,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions\/16088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}