{"id":23594,"date":"2019-01-18T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23594"},"modified":"2019-01-18T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:45:35","slug":"new-england-central-608-stafford-springs-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-central-608-stafford-springs-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Central 608 Stafford Springs\u2014Part 3."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br \/>As New England Central 608 approached downtown Stafford Springs on January 14, 2019, I set my Nikon F3 to expose a textured image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old buildings adjacent to the tracks are as much of a visual attraction as the train itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with an f1.8 105mm lens, I exposed three frames of Kodak Tri-X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23595\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-england-central-608-stafford-springs-part-3\/necr_608-at-stafford-springsbriansolomon_538211\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?fit=4416%2C2741\" data-orig-size=\"4416,2741\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NECR_608 at Stafford Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This image strength comes from tonality and texture.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?fit=709%2C440\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?fit=474%2C294\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?resize=474%2C294\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23595\" width=\"474\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?w=4416 4416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?resize=205%2C127 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?resize=709%2C440 709w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?resize=1022%2C634 1022w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To process the film, I used my custom tailored split process, that uses two developers, followed by selenium toning of the fixed negatives. This maximizes the tonality of the film, while giving me glossy highlights. A secondary effect of the toner is the slight lavender hue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After processing, I scanned the negatives in color using an Epson V750 scanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>Although Brian is traveling, Tracking the Light still Posts Daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New England Central 608 approached downtown Stafford Springs on January 14, 2019, I set my Nikon F3 to expose a textured image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23595,"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":[10,48],"tags":[5193,5192,111,116,7535,81,293,230],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NECR_608-at-Stafford-Springs\u00a9BrianSolomon_538211.jpg?fit=4416%2C2741","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-68y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594"}],"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=23594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23614,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594\/revisions\/23614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}