{"id":5558,"date":"2014-02-13T05:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T10:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2014-02-09T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:37:49","slug":"daily-post-west-warren-contrasts-2010-and-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-west-warren-contrasts-2010-and-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY POST; West Warren Contrasts; 2010 and 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Difficulties of Photographing in the Spring and Summer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s just what you want to read about right now, isn’t it!. Gosh, those awful warm months with the long days, soft sunlight and thick foliage.<\/p>\n

Well, here I have two views, both made at about the same location off Route 67 in West Warren, Massachusetts at approximately the same time of the morning. Both views show a CSX eastward freight.<\/p>\n

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On July 31, 2010, an eastward CSXT intermodal train works the former Boston & Albany at West Warren, Massachusetts. At the time heavy line-side brush made photography challenging. Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This sequence of photos was made at almost exactly the same location, but after CSXT performed undercutting work and brush cutting along the Boston & Albany route. These views were exposed on the morning of May 10, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Slightly closer view that nearly approximates the position of the train in the July 31, 2010 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first was exposed on July 31, 2010; the second two views were made on May 10, 2013. While I\u2019ve used one of these views in a previous post (see: Quaboag Valley in Fog and Sun, May 10, 2013<\/a> ), I thought these made for an interesting contrast with the earlier image.<\/p>\n

The primary difference is that in the interval between 2010 and 2013 CSXT cut the brush along the Boston line and performed undercutting work at West Warren. This is just one of many locations that benefited visually from such improvements.<\/p>\n

A secondary difficulty about photographing when foliage is at its summer peak is selecting the optimum exposure. In the 2010 image, I took a test photo and allowed for some nominal overexposure of the locomotive front in order to retain detail in the foliage. I then made a nominal correction in Photoshop during post processing to make for a more pleasing image.<\/p>\n

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This is the ‘unprocessed’ camera-produced Jpg to show the slight ‘over exposure’ on the locomotive front.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tomorrow: CSX in the snow!<\/p>\n

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