{"id":19011,"date":"2017-07-28T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19011"},"modified":"2017-07-27T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:02:20","slug":"night-and-no-tripod-improvise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/night-and-no-tripod-improvise\/","title":{"rendered":"Night and No Tripod, Improvise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

-There\u2019s a long history among my friends to meet in Palmer, Massachusetts on Friday nights; first some dinner and then over to CP83 to watch trains.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago some of the gang met, and CSX rolled through a few long freights.<\/p>\n

I had a Nikon F3 with 24mm lens loaded with Kodak Tri-X, so despite my lack of a tripod, I exposed a few photos.<\/p>\n

My exposures ranged between 2 and 8 seconds at f2.8 hand-held.<\/p>\n

I rested the camera on the short disconnected section of track used to display a Porter 0-6-0 steam locomotive by the Steaming Tender; thus my camera support became part of the photos.<\/p>\n

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Long exposures hand-held are not easy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I processed the Tri-X in Ilford Perceptol 1:1 at 69F for 8 minutes 30 seconds, and following stop, first fix, second fix, extended rinse cycles, I then toned the negatives in a selenium solution for 8 minutes and repeated the wash sequence.<\/p>\n

Negatives were scanned using an Epson V750 Pro flatbed scanner.<\/p>\n

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