{"id":34010,"date":"2022-08-08T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=34010"},"modified":"2022-08-07T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:59:36","slug":"on-the-job-with-the-sp-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/on-the-job-with-the-sp-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Job with the SP Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In August 1991, I made this image on Southern Pacific’s dime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For three days I was commissioned by Southern Pacific to photograph the famous 4449 with Daylight<\/em> train working excursions between Redding and Mount Shasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow photographer Brian Jennison and I had traveled up from the Bay Area and had three days of glorious California sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of my photos of 4449 were exposed on Kodachrome 25 using my Nikon F3T, and these have been published in magazines, books, postcards and calendars over years. However, I was also working with black & white film, probably Ilford FP4, which I exposed using my old Leica M2 with 50mm Summicron. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My notes from the day show that I’d set the camera at f4.5 1\/250. I’d used a yellow filter and processed the film in Edwall FG7 to give the photo a period appearance. My intent was to replicate the look of 1940s-era publicity of photos of SP’s Daylight<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The few B&W photos I made that day have never been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Redding, California August 31, 1991 11:05am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tracking the Light Looks Back 31 years!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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