{"id":18447,"date":"2017-05-09T06:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18447"},"modified":"2017-05-08T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:18:30","slug":"going-against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/going-against-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Against the Grain."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I push the limits.<\/p>\n

The other morning in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, I exposed this view of New England Central\u2019s northward freight that runs daily from Willimantic, Ct., to Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The train was coming hard out of a clear morning sun. Using a Leica IIIA fitted with a Nikkor 35mm screw-mount lens, I exposed this view on Foma Retropan 320.<\/p>\n

Retropan is a comparatively coarse grain emulsion that offers a distinctly different range of tones than expected with Ilford HP5, Kodak Tri-X, or other black & white films in the same sensitivity range.<\/p>\n

It also produces a characteristic halo-effect in bright highlight areas.<\/p>\n

I processed the film more or less as recommended using Foma\u2019s specially formulated Retro Special Developer, and then scanned it with an Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner. I made minor adjustments to contrast in Lightroom.<\/p>\n

As I anticipated, my results from this experiment are more pictorial than literal.<\/p>\n

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A photo of the setting at Stafford Springs, Connecticut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New England Central’s freight with EMD diesels working long-hood first at Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Retropan’s halo effect combined with the large amounts of flare from the sun hitting the front element of the lens contributes to this\u00a0interpretive image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light posts something different every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I push the limits. The other morning in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, I exposed this view of New England Central\u2019s northward freight that runs daily from Willimantic, Ct., to Palmer, Massachusetts. The train was coming hard out of a clear morning sun. Using a Leica IIIA fitted with a Nikkor 35mm screw-mount lens, I exposed … Continue reading Going Against the Grain.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18446,"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":[4183,3814,4008,4537,4009,116,2642,81,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601827.jpg?fit=4379%2C2596","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Nx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18447"}],"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=18447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18448,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18447\/revisions\/18448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}