{"id":41008,"date":"2025-01-21T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41008"},"modified":"2025-01-18T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T03:32:37","slug":"rescued-photo-from-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rescued-photo-from-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Photo from the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On October 4, 1993, I paid a visit to Groveton, NH to photograph this NHV GP9 working trackage around the old paper mill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a dark morning, so I was working with Kodak E100 LPP Ektachrome that was rated at ISO 100, two stops faster than my staple color film: Kodachrome 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the faster film, I badly miscalculated exposure and the resulting color slide was too dark for presentation. For more than 30 years, it sat in a Kodak box labeled ‘Seconds’ along with a host of other rare photos, including an Alco RS-11 passing the ball signal at Whitefield exposed earlier the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To rescue the Groveton photo, I made a multiple-pass scan using a Nikon LS-5000 scanner driven by VueScan software. I significantly increased the sample rate to minimize the loss of data. Then I imported the RAW file into Lightroom, where I made a variety of heavy-handed adjustments to lighten shadows and hold detail in the sky in order to make for a more pleasing photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, I’ve posted bothe unadjusted ‘dark’ photo, and my post processed version aimed to restore the scene so that it looked more like I recall the light on that morning many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My original scan of my slide as it appears without adjustment. This is more than a full stop underexposed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My rescued version of the same scan. I lightened the photograph, adjusted shadow and highlight areas, while making localized improvements to various areas of the scene, and adding saturation and contrast controls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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