{"id":17373,"date":"2016-12-03T05:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T10:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17373"},"modified":"2016-12-01T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:20:48","slug":"black-white-morning-light-csx-at-gardner-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/black-white-morning-light-csx-at-gardner-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Black & White-Morning Light: CSX at Gardner, Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"

But wait, CSX doesn\u2019t serve Gardner. True. However on this day in mid-November\u00a02016, I photographed a pair of CSX GE Evolution-series diesels leading Pan Am Southern freight 287\u2014an empty auto rack train from Ayer.<\/p>\n

These days, passing locomotives don\u2019t necessarily reflect either the\u00a0owner or operator of the train they lead.<\/p>\n

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CSX diesels work Pan Am Southern at Gardner, Massachusetts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dappled morning sun augmented the effects of a textured sky and late season foliage. I opted to make this image using my Leica 3A with 35mm Nikkor Lens loaded with Ilford Pan-F (ISO).<\/p>\n

This film offers fine grain and broad tonality. I\u2019m not yet expert at processing this emulsion. Previously I used Ilfosol with mixed results. This time I tried Kodak D76 mixed 1:1 (stock solution with water).<\/p>\n

If my process was completely successful my negatives would scan perfectly without need of electronic post processing adjustments. This example provided a good starting point, but to make for the most pleasing image, still required local and global contrast control.<\/p>\n

By the way, digital photographers may relax; I also exposed several frames with my FujiFilm X-T1\u2013Just in case.<\/p>\n

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But wait, CSX doesn\u2019t serve Gardner. True. However on this day in mid-November\u00a02016, I photographed a pair of CSX GE Evolution-series diesels leading Pan Am Southern freight 287\u2014an empty auto rack train from Ayer. These days, passing locomotives don\u2019t necessarily reflect either the\u00a0owner or operator of the train they lead. Dappled morning sun augmented the … Continue reading Black & White-Morning Light: CSX at Gardner, Massachusetts.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17372,"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":[48],"tags":[3814,3950,2996,35,3051,104],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_578691.jpg?fit=4533%2C2794","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4wd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373"}],"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=17373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}