{"id":18755,"date":"2017-06-23T05:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18755"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:15:57","slug":"ware-june-15-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ware-june-15-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ware? June 15, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a town with a funny name.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Central serves Ware on a mix of former Boston & Albany and Boston & Maine lines.<\/p>\n

For the last few years the railroad has stored two of its antique locomotives in the Ware yard, including its unusual former Southern Railway EMD NW5 number 2100.<\/p>\n

I have many images of this locomotive in various paint schemes over the years; hauling freight, switching the yard, and working excursion trains.<\/p>\n

I made these photos the other day with a Nikon F3 fitted with an old school (non-AI) Nikkor 24mm lens (a favorite tool of mine for making unusual and dramatic images).<\/p>\n

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24mm view in the afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A vertical engine photo with a wide-angle lens, and I clipped the pilot. The travesty of it all!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My process was also unusual. Working with Ilford HP5 rated at ISO 320 (instead of 400), in the dark room I allowed the film to get a very small degree of base fog to thus raise the detail in the shadow areas, while under-processing the film in Kodak D-76 (stock solution mixed 1-1 with water) by nearly 40 percent. Instead of an 11 minute time as recommended, I cut my time to just over 7 minutes, but raised the temperature to 73 degrees F for increased activity. This also boosts the grain a little but that adds to the texture of the photos and clearly distinguishes them from digital images produced by modern cameras.<\/p>\n

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As you might guess, I\u2019m not opposed to visual characteristics in a photo that hint at the process that created them.<\/p>\n

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