{"id":18667,"date":"2017-06-13T06:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2017-06-13T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:05:52","slug":"cavendish-a-study-in-high-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cavendish-a-study-in-high-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavendish: A Study in High Light."},"content":{"rendered":"

High sun in June doesn\u2019t offer the most flattering light. Straight up and down sun, with harsh contrast, and inky shadows conspire to make for difficult photos.<\/p>\n

Last week, Paul Goewey and I waited at this rural grade crossing near Cavendish, Vermont for Vermont Rail System\u2019s southward (eastward) freight 263. Slow orders and other delays resulted in a much longer than expected wait.<\/p>\n

I had Fomapan 100 black & white film in the Leica 3A. I\u2019ve been experimenting with this Czech-made film since October last year. Among its benefits is its exceptional ability to capture shadow detail.<\/p>\n

To intensify this desirable characteristic, I processed the film with two-stage development. First I let the film soak at 68F in a water bath mixed with a drop of HC110 and Kodak Photoflo for about 3 minutes.<\/p>\n

For the primary developer I used Ilford Perceptol Stock for 5 minutes 25 seconds at 69F with very gentle agitation every 60 seconds. Then stop bath, two bath fixer, 1st<\/sup> rinse, Permawash, 10 minute second rinse.<\/p>\n

I scanned the negatives using an Epson Perfection V750 Pro flatbed scanner, then imported the negatives into Lightroom.<\/p>\n

Ideally my chemical processing should yield negatives that don\u2019t require work in post processing. But in this case I found I needed to make minor adjustments to contrast and exposure.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve presented two examples; one is scaled but otherwise unaltered. The other has my exposure and contrast adjustments.<\/p>\n

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The unaltered image. This is scaled for internet presentation but not adjusted for contrast or exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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By making minor adjustments with Lightroom, I lightened the shadow areas to make better use of the detail captured by the film, softened the overall contrast, lowered the highlights, and used a digitally applied graduated filter to adjust highlights in the sky to make the clouds stand out better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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High sun in June doesn\u2019t offer the most flattering light. Straight up and down sun, with harsh contrast, and inky shadows conspire to make for difficult photos. Last week, Paul Goewey and I waited at this rural grade crossing near Cavendish, Vermont for Vermont Rail System\u2019s southward (eastward) freight 263. Slow orders and other delays … Continue reading Cavendish: A Study in High Light.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18665,"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":[4223,3814,3968,2182,154,1438],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601093-2.jpg?fit=1802%2C1109","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4R5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667"}],"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=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18668,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions\/18668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}