{"id":30610,"date":"2021-01-27T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30610"},"modified":"2021-01-27T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:08:56","slug":"best-of-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/best-of-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Worst!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other day plowing through my old yellow Kodak boxes, I found one marked in pencil ‘RR-BAD, 2nds & 3rds’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated from my teenaged sorting classification system this was code for ‘real garbage, but not so bad that it should be thrown away’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without opening this box, hidden away in the dark for more than three decades, I joked to Kris Sabbatino, “these slides are marked as ‘Bad’, so they must be the best of the lot!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I explained further, “In my younger days I’d dismiss a photo for the slightest perceived imperfection and classify it as ‘junk’. I know better now! Any box that’s coded as ‘garbage’ is filled with lost treasure!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure enough when I opened this yellow box last night and examined it closely, I found host of fascinating photos. Many only a quick correction away from public presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what was wrong with this view of a Bangor & Aroostook GP7 at Northern Maine Junction? I’d exposed it on Kodak Ektachrome back in July 1983, and missed my ideal exposure. The original is a bit hot (too light). But that’s a quick fix using Adobe Lightroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you see here is my corrected scan of the original overexposed slide. Not all that bad after all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern Maine Junction near Bangor, Maine on July 3, 1983. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So what else was in my garbage file?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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