{"id":31796,"date":"2021-08-24T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31796"},"modified":"2021-08-23T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T01:53:34","slug":"nostalgia-for-a-bad-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/nostalgia-for-a-bad-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia for a Bad Slide."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Languishing in my Miscellaneous Railroad Seconds file (Bad Slides) from 1982-1983 was this back lit winter view of the Central Vermont Railway yard in Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d exposed this Kodachrome 64 slide using my old Leica 3A fitted with 50mm Sumitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a technically flawed photo. It is considerably off-level. The exposure is slightly on the dark side. The composition is a bit loose. And the color is decidedly magenta owing to a processing abnormality on the part of Kodak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an exercise, I decided to scan the slide and import into Lightroom to see if I could improve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve included the unadjusted scan. A screen shot of the adjustment window. And, my final adjusted image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My unadjusted scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leveled, cropped, color and contrast corrected scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Screen shot of the Adobe Lightroom work window showing the degree of change during an early edit of my ‘Bad Slide’. I ended up taking out even more magenta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I ended up wondering how I might photograph this scene today, using my most modern cameras. Also I wonder, is my \u2018bad slide\u2019 really all that bad? It may mean little to random viewers, but it conjured up in my memory the Palmer Yard of my youth. There\u2019s a pair of idling Central Vermont Alco RS-11s, and in the distance the train they had recently delivered. Just about everything in the photo reminds me of how exciting I found railroading when I was 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would a \u2018better\u2019 photo convey the same feeling for me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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