{"id":32654,"date":"2022-01-10T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32654"},"modified":"2022-01-09T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:06:56","slug":"crossing-tender-bangor-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/crossing-tender-bangor-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Tender Bangor, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a week-long vacation to coastal Maine in July 1983 to visit my grand parents, I was given the keys to the family Ford for the day. On the recommendation of my friend Bob Buck, I visited a host of interesting railroad locations in Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My forth stop was at Bangor, where I photographed the Maine Central yard and a local freight switching there using my Leica 3A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The negative for this black & white image had resided in a marked envelope until last week when I finally scanned it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1983, my photographic processing abilities were rudimentary, and frankly I wasn’t very good at developing black & white film. Only recently, I was able to overcome some of the technical failings in this image by adjusting the scan I made using Adobe Lightroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adjusted and altered scan at Bangor Yard. Photo expsoed in July 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Version ‘B’ with additional adjustments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Unlike some of my photos displayed on Tracking the Light that only receive minor corrections to tweak contrast or exposure, in this image I needed to make some fairly substantial corrections to contrast and exposure, while eliminating a host of spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s virtually nothing in this scene remaining today, and now manned crossings are nearly extinct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just for comparison, this is an un-modified version of the same scan (scaled for internet presentation). Hard midday backlighting made for a difficult photo, poor processing on my part made it worse. Yet, the subject matter is interesting. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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