{"id":30818,"date":"2021-03-06T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30818"},"modified":"2021-03-05T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:03:10","slug":"dreary-evening-on-the-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dreary-evening-on-the-erie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreary Evening On the Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Kodachrome slide has languished in the darkness for 32 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d followed a westward empty Conrail coal train through New York’s Canisteo Valley on the evening of April 7, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had been an overcast day with laden clouds. Yet traffic had been heavy on Conrail’s former Erie Railroad lines in western New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time Conrail was routing coal empties west from Hornell via the old Erie main line that went through Alfred and Andover, then operated as the Meadville Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West of Hornell this route ascended a steep grade that brought heavy trains to a crawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fading light of that April evening, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide along Canacadea Creek. If I recall correctly, my shutter speed was about 1\/30th of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why such a slow film?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is what I had in my Leica M, and so I made do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are two versions of the scanned image. The first is scaled but unmodified. The second is a heavily modified image to make the most of the extremes of Kodachrome’s capturing ability while adding drama to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking the Light Looks Back!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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