{"id":29691,"date":"2020-08-28T07:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=29691"},"modified":"2020-08-28T07:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:05:53","slug":"boston-maine-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/boston-maine-silhouette\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston & Maine Silhouette."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 15, 1985 was a memorable day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It dawned clear and bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the advice of Ed Beaudette My pal TSH and I started the day at White River Junction, Vermont, where we spent several hours photographing the parade of trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By midday, Boston & Maine\u2019s CPED was headed south toward East Deerfield, Massachusetts and we followed it to make photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sights and sounds of four Boston & Maine GP9s working in multiple will always stick with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time we weren\u2019t well versed with the lay of the land, and did our best to follow the Connecticut River line with little more than a basic map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At Claremont, New Hampshire we stumbled upon the famous high bridge, just moments before the southward CPED rolled across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my father\u2019s Rollei Model T loaded with 120-size Kodak Verichrome Pan roll film, I exposed a single frame of the freight in silhouette crossing the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I processed this in Kodak D76. My processing skills were only slightly better than my ability to find locations on the fly. In retrospect, I should have used a different developer, or at least used a more dilute solution, because my resulting negative was over developed and lacking in broad tonality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In later years, I refined my photographic skill, however I can\u2019t go back to catch four B&M GP9s on the bridge, so I have to work with the existing negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For presentation here: after scanning the original negative, I imported the hi-res scan into Lightroom, where I implemented a variety of contrast and exposure adjustments to make for a more visually pleasing image and then outputted a scaled lo-res scan for internet presentation here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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