{"id":3019,"date":"2013-06-30T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2013-06-30T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:16:14","slug":"luas-at-the-red-cow-april-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/luas-at-the-red-cow-april-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"LUAS at the Red Cow April 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

400mm View of an Alstom Citadis<\/a> Tram.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dublin<\/a> LUAS<\/a> tram backlit near the Red Cow stop in April 2005. Exposed on Fujichrom Sensia 100 with a Nikon N90S<\/a> fitted with a Tokina<\/a> 400mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In April 2005, Dublin\u2019s LUAS light rail system was still relatively new. Services on the Red Line service between Dublin Connolly Station<\/a> and Tallagh had only commenced the previous September.<\/p>\n

The Trams still had that \u2018right out of the box\u2019 quality. They were new and shiny and free from dents and day-to-day wear and tear. The yellow safety stripes were still in the future.<\/p>\n

The Irish Railway Record Society was working on a special LUAS edition of their Journal and fellow IRRS members Stephen Hirsch, the late-Norman McAdams and myself spent a morning intensively photographing LUAS operations and its trams to help fill this publication.<\/p>\n

The morning was bright but had a hazy diffused quality of light, typical of Irish April weather.\u00a0I exposed this image with my Nikon N90S fitted with a Tokina 400mm lens.<\/p>\n

However when I inspected the processed slide, it left me with something of quandary: While I was satisfied with the composition and the subtle backlit qualities, I\u2019d felt that I’d misjudged the lighting and overexposed the image by about a stop. Worse, I didn\u2019t manage to keep the camera level, so, by my normal standards of judgment, I felt the slide projected poorly.<\/p>\n

Despite these flaws, I found the slide, scanned exceptionally well. In post processing I was easily able to correct for level, and the exposure looks fine on the computer screen without need for manipulation.<\/p>\n

This just goes to show what doesn\u2019t look good on film, may, in fact, produce a better than average final image in other media.<\/p>\n

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