{"id":35085,"date":"2022-12-29T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35085"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:28:16","slug":"this-is-a-bad-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/this-is-a-bad-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a ‘Bad’ Photo??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recent news of exceptional snowfall in western New York State led me to review some of the photos I made during my years in Rochester, NY in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was digging BIG box of slides lettered ‘3rds’\u2014those that had been deemed unworthy during an edit many years ago and put aside. Certainly some of those slides are poor interpretations. But mixed in are some gems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 27, 1988, I made this photo of a westward Conrail Trailvan piggyback train west of downtown Rochester, New York at milepost 374 (included in the image a lower left) at Lincoln Park. The train was kicking up snow as it raced along the former New York Central Waterlevel route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My camera of choice was a Leica M2 rangefinder fitted with a 90mm Elmarit that was loaded with Kodachrome 25 slide film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most likely reason that I rejected this photo was because it was partially overcast. Other than that it looks pretty good to me today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scanned at 4000 dpi with a Nikon LS 5000 scanner and VueScan software. I imported the TIF file into Lightroom and outputted three versions; the top is scaled but unaltered, the bottom two versions benefit from a variety of minor corrections to level, color temperature, exposure and saturation. The middle version is warmer than the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unadjusted Scan, Kodachrome 25 exposed with Leica M2 and 90mm Elmarit lens. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adjusted version of the above photograph with changes aimed at improving overall appearance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slightly cooler color temperature. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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