{"id":32149,"date":"2021-10-29T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32149"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:00:42","slug":"hi-hood-sd45-december-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/hi-hood-sd45-december-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Hood SD45 December 1987."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the late 1980s Kodak introduced its new T-grain T-Max black & white emulsions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quickly adopted these new films in place of Kodak Tri-X and Kodak Plus-X. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After about a year of trial and error with the T-Max films, I opted to return to the more traditional non-T-grain emulsions. In the mean time I committed countless unrepeatable scenes to T-Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This photo features a freshly-painted (and only recently acquired) Guilford SD45 eastbound at Greenfield, Massachusetts. I exposed it on 120-size TMY (T-Max 400) film using my father’s Rollieflex Model-T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the difficulty was that I insisted on developing the film in straight Kodak D76 instead of the recommended T-Max developer. I did this to save money; when I was at RIT in Rochester (actually Henrietta), New York, photo students received basic photo chemistry as part of their lab fee, which meant I could get all the D76 I wanted without any additional cost, while T-Max developer had to be purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I saved in developer, I’ve paid 100-fold in laborious print making and difficult scanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, using Adobe Lightroom I’ve finally been able to get decent tonality out of these 34 year-old photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Springfield Terminal SD45 679 leads an eastward road freight at Greenfield, Massachusetts on December 19, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The SD45 has always been a favorite locomotive, and at the time I was quite pleased to catch Guilford’s latest motive power in fresh paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo features a freshly-painted (and only recently acquired) Guilford SD45 eastbound at Greenfield, Massachusetts. I exposed it on 120-size TMY (T-Max 100) film using my father’s Rollieflex Model-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[5154,4537,4809,5149,6976,7535],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Springfield_Terminal_679_at_Greenfield_Dec19_1987\u00a9BrianSolomon441064-2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1913","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-8mx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32153,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions\/32153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}