{"id":18508,"date":"2017-05-18T05:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18508"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:31:12","slug":"making-use-of-a-dull-morning-another-take-of-608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/making-use-of-a-dull-morning-another-take-of-608\/","title":{"rendered":"Making use of a dull Morning\u2014Another Take of 608."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, if I called this Stafford Springs, Connecticut Part 3, would you be interested.<\/p>\n

In truth, this is less about Stafford and its morning freight train and more about lighting and technique.<\/p>\n

In two previous posts [see: New England Central at Stafford Springs, Connecticut\u2014Again<\/a>, and Going Against the Grain<\/a> \u00a0I’ve detailed my efforts at photographing New England Central 608 working through Stafford Springs in harsh morning sunlight. This post depicts the same train on a dull morning, but also in black & white (Sorry Dave Clinton, but it has to be done).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m using the same camera-lens combination; a Leica IIIa with a screw-mount f3.5 Nikkor 35mm lens. This time loaded with Ilford HP5. My process is about the same as in my earlier post New England Central at Stafford Springs, Connecticut\u2014Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time, I processed it using Ilford <\/em>Perceptol developer diluted 1:1 with water; after fixing and rinsing, negatives were toned in a 1:9 selenium solution for eight minutes, rewashed and scanned. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>One small change;\u00a0in this instance, I gave the film a little more toning than previously, which should make for slightly more silvery highlights. This is a subtle change, and probably barely perceptible on internet presentation.<\/p>\n

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New England Central 608 at Stafford Springs at 7:20am on May 10, 2017 ; exposed using a Leica IIIa with f3.5 Nikkor 35mm lens at f4.5\/f5.6 1\/200th second on HP5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A slightly closer view of New England Central 608 at Stafford Springs. I’ve made this on at a slightly lower angle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Compositionally, I\u2019ve made an effort to include the village and not just focus on the locomotives.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m by no means done with this project, and I\u2019ll continue to post with more photos and insights over the coming weeks. (Including some color views to please\u00a0Dave and others morally opposed to black & white).<\/p>\n

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So, if I called this Stafford Springs, Connecticut Part 3, would you be interested. In truth, this is less about Stafford and its morning freight train and more about lighting and technique. In two previous posts [see: New England Central at Stafford Springs, Connecticut\u2014Again, and Going Against the Grain \u00a0I’ve detailed my efforts at photographing … Continue reading Making use of a dull Morning\u2014Another Take of 608.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18506,"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":[3814,4537,2182,81,27,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601007.jpg?fit=4533%2C2613","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508"}],"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=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18510,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions\/18510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}