{"id":23547,"date":"2019-01-15T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:57:54","slug":"oh-no-a-conrail-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/oh-no-a-conrail-dud\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No, A Conrail Dud!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Here\u2019s another 1980s Conrail photo. Not one of my good ones. This was also in the \u2018seconds\u2019 file, and in my opinion is un-retrievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poor show at Churchville, New York. I missed the focus when photographing this westward Conrail intermodal train in autumn 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I made the photo I incorporated many of my favorite elements; signals, codelines, road freight blasting along through a curve. But, several things were amiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sun went in at the wrong moment leaving me with flat lighting; I failed to level the scene which produced a cockeyed image; however worst of all, I missed the focus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was working with a 200mm lens mounted on a tripod and I didn\u2019t pick the correct focus point. Poor show. No autofocus back then, so there\u2019s no-one to blame but me. And unlike other flaws, focus isn’t easy to correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear not! I have thousands of better Conrail images, where the sun was out, the camera was level and the desired point of focus was achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light is about process, not just obtaining perfect photos.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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