{"id":30657,"date":"2021-02-04T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30657"},"modified":"2021-02-04T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:39:40","slug":"central-vermont-444-at-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-444-at-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Vermont 444 at Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in the mid-1980s, I’d often catch Central Vemont’s southward road freight arriving at Palmer, Massachusetts. This would operate overnight from St. Albans, and typically arrive in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this occasion, 444 was lead by a colorful mix of locomotives including Grand Trunk Western GP38 5808 and a couple of GTW GP9s, a CV GP9, and a Canadian National M-420.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must have been so enthralled by the array of motive power that I didn’t mind my exposure. My original slide is about 2\/3s of a stop over exposed. Which means the photograph is too light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the day, I’d instantly reject an image of this quality as ‘unsuitable’ for projection. Although, I labeled the slide, I filed it away with my ‘3rds’, where it was protected from the light for more than 34 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I scanned it the other day using a Nikon Coolscan5000 digital scanner, making a multiple pass scan to extract the most amount of data possible in a 4000 dpi scan, then imported the TIF file into Adobe Lightroom for adjustment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual adjustment required to correct for over exposure required just a few seconds of my time. Using the histogram as a guide, I lowered the exposure, set the black and white limits and exported as a JPG for presentation here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the unadjusted scan, followed by my exposure adjusted scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original over exposed photo unadjusted after scanning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My exposure-adjusted scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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