{"id":39127,"date":"2024-05-21T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39127"},"modified":"2024-05-20T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:45:28","slug":"new-nysw-dash-8s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/new-nysw-dash-8s\/","title":{"rendered":"New NYS&W DASH-8s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thirty-five years ago today, I exposed this Kodachrome 25 slide of nearly new New York, Susquehanna & Western DASH8-40Bs in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 21, 1989, NYS&W 4038 was leading an eastward double-stack train that had paused at William Street for a crew change. This was during the period when NYS&W was the designated operator of the Delaware & Hudson and had acquired two orders of new GE DASH8-40Bs built to Conrail specs to alleviate a motive power shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engine 4038 was just a few weeks out of the factory at Erie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with many of my Kodachrome 25 slides from this period, the image suffers from a cyan bias. Cyan is a blue-green color that is the opposite of red in common photographic reproduction processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After making a hi-res TIF scan, I imported the slide into Lightroom and made a series of minor adjustments to minimize the effects of the cyan bias and high contrast. I added majenta and yellow, while resetting the black point, lightening shadows, and reducing the highlight density. I made these corrections with aid of the Lightroom histogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are both the scaled but unmodified scan, and my adjusted version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unmodified scan of K25 slide. Original exposed with a Leica M2 with 35mm Summicron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Modified scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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