{"id":4000,"date":"2013-10-05T05:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2013-10-05T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:29:05","slug":"santa-fe-at-west-pittsburg-california-november-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/santa-fe-at-west-pittsburg-california-november-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe at West Pittsburg, California, November 1990."},"content":{"rendered":"

EMD SD45-2 Under a Blue Dome.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve posted this image as another example of my work with a perspective control lens. This was a tool I made excellent use of in the early 1990s. On the recommendation of J.D. Schmid, I bought a Nikon<\/a> 35mm PC \u2018Shift\u2019 lens for my Nikon F3T.<\/p>\n

Among the advantages of a perspective control lens is the ability to shift the front element. This can be used to keep vertical lines from converging, but also to alter the image in subtle ways.<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe SD45-2 5809 thunders east with a freight at West Pittsburg, California<\/a> in November 1990. Exposed on Kodachrome 25 film with a Nikon F3T with 35mm PC lens<\/a> at f4 1\/500th of a second.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a clear Saturday morning in the Bay Area<\/a>, and Brian Jennison and I were on one of our jaunts looking at area railroads. We stopped near the old station location at West Pittsburg (no \u2018h\u2019), California<\/a>. (I believe the palm trees in the distance are an indication of where the building once stood.) Here we photographed several trains.<\/p>\n

For this eastward freight, I positioned the camera relatively low to the ground and raised the front element of the 35mm PC to near its maximum. I didn\u2019t quite keep the camera level. The result includes a large amount of crystal blue sky, while minimizing the foreground and keeping the vertical elements of the lead locomotive nearly parallel with the image frame.<\/p>\n

I feel the subtle effect allows the locomotive visually surge forward, seeming to charge along. This was my intent. Santa Fe 5809 is an SD45-2, a machine powered by EMD\u2019s 3,600 hp 20-cylinder diesel.<\/p>\n

In their heyday these were powerful machines that produced an awe inspiring low-base sound in the high-throttle positions. I hoped to convey that power visually while making use of the California sky.<\/p>\n

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EMD SD45-2 Under a Blue Dome. I\u2019ve posted this image as another example of my work with a perspective control lens. This was a tool I made excellent use of in the early 1990s. On the recommendation of J.D. Schmid, I bought a Nikon 35mm PC \u2018Shift\u2019 lens for my Nikon F3T. Among the advantages … Continue reading Santa Fe at West Pittsburg, California, November 1990.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10,48],"tags":[4537,1407,820,80,304,43,45,1405,7,4,1406,105,1409,1408,1410],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Santa-Fe-SD45-2-at-W-Pittsburg-Calif-Nov-1990-Brian-Solomon-662934.jpg?fit=800%2C530","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-12w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000"}],"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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}