{"id":8911,"date":"2014-11-14T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2014-11-14T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:03:45","slug":"irish-rail-sugar-beet-near-ballycullane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-sugar-beet-near-ballycullane\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail Sugar Beet near Ballycullane"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 2005.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It was nearing the end of Irish Rail’s\u00a0final beet season, which ironically turned out to be one of the busiest campaigns.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of the day, my friends and I had positioned ourselves near milepost 90 on the South Wexford line at the top of Taylorstown Bank on the climb up from Wellingtonbridge.<\/p>\n

Irish class 071 number 073 was lifting an estimated 775 tonnes of sugar beet and had been in run-8 for several minutes; the roar of its 12-645E3 diesel drowning out the sounds of birds and sheep in the surrounding fields.<\/p>\n

The train was at a crawl when it reached the top of the grade. I made a sequence of photos using three cameras. This was made with my N90S with a 400mm Tokina lens fitted to a Manfrotto tripod.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome, scan adjusted for color, contrast and sharpness in post-processing. My intent was to exaggerate the effect of the gradient on Taylorstown Bank. There aren\u2019t many places on Irish Rail where a 400mm lens is really effective, but this is one of them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I felt that the 400mm view was the trickiest to pull off, and honestly I considered this among my experimental attempts, as I fired of a whole series of images in rapid succession. I made a more conventional view as the train got closer.<\/p>\n

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