{"id":18812,"date":"2017-07-02T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18812"},"modified":"2017-07-01T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T12:57:30","slug":"a-crescent-at-wisdom-way-something-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/a-crescent-at-wisdom-way-something-different\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crescent at Wisdom Way\u2014Something different."},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light posts new railway photography every day.<\/h3>\n

Working with the Leica IIIa fitted with a 21mm Super Angulon and loaded with Kodak Tri-X, I exposed this vertical grab shot of Pan Am Southern’s eastward loaded autorack train 28N at Wisdom Way in Greenfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

I often work with two or more cameras, typically one is a film body and the other digital.<\/p>\n

On this June 2017 afternoon, fellow photographer Mike Gardner and I arrived a few minutes earlier, and my primary image from the Wisdom Way bridge was a color view with my FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with a 90mm lens.<\/p>\n

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Kodak Tri-X processed in Ilford Perceptol 1-1 with water for 8 minutes at 70F, then toned in Selenium for 7 minutes. Negatives rinsed, washed, dry and scanned in color with an Epson V750 Pro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 21mm Super Angulon is a very unusual lens, but one I\u2019ve been working with since the 1970s. Looking back over my early work, I often achieved more satisfying results with this lens than my other tools.<\/p>\n

For this view I wanted a dynamic angle that was more than simple documentation so I chose to skew the horizon. I also slightly panned the moving locomotive, which has the affect of softening the background while keeping the numbers on the locomotive cab sharp.<\/p>\n

Norfolk Southern 6991 is fitted with the \u2018Crescent cab,\u2019 a design unique to Norfolk Southern, thus making it comparatively unusual in New England.<\/p>\n

Tracking the Light posts new material every day.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Here’s a tiny thumbnail view of the digital photo I made moments before the black & white view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Brian Solomon’s Tracking the Light posts new railway photography every day. Working with the Leica IIIa fitted with a 21mm Super Angulon and loaded with Kodak Tri-X, I exposed this vertical grab shot of Pan Am Southern’s eastward loaded autorack train 28N at Wisdom Way in Greenfield, Massachusetts. I often work with two or more … Continue reading A Crescent at Wisdom Way\u2014Something different.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18809,"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":[10],"tags":[4251,26,2103,1880,82,3057],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601445.jpg?fit=1071%2C1866","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812"}],"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=18812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18814,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions\/18814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}