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Canadian Atlantic Railway Diesel Locomotive, Scranton, Pennsylvania
On September 18, 1992, I went on a Steam Train Excursion sponsored by the United Railroad Historical Society (aka: URHS) in Scranton Pennsylvania (aka: Steamtown"), and a Locomotive Photography Shoot from the Scranton Turntable. I also had time to do a walking tour of the Scranton Steamtown National Historic Site. Further information about Steamtown can be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamtown_National_Historic_Site
This Celebration was called Photographer's Weekend !
I took this Photograph of Canadian Atlantic Railway Number 8023 before the Nighttime Photoshoot. It was posed on one of the Lead Tracks to the Turntable. The Canadian Atlantic Rwy is a Division of CP Rail. It looks like a Water Tank /Tower in the background behind the Locomotive.
During the Nighttime Photo Shoot, the participants (myself included) were directed to set up their Tripod Mounted Cameras on the Turntable with their cameras set for bulb (to control the shutter) and with their lenses set for a specific f-Stop. For each Photo, the URHS Crew would move & Position a Locomotive within view of all of the participants cameras and, told us which f-stop to use. This type of Photography is often referred to as Time Lapse Photography ( aka: Open Lens Photography, aka: Bulb Photography )
They would then move around between the participants and the Locomotive firing Flash Bulbs at numerous spots on each locomotive, so as to completely light all parts of the locomotive (Serially, Not Simultaneously). They did this for each Locomotive chosen by the URHS and we were told when to open our Lenses, followed by their firing all of the Flash Bulbs & when to close our Lenses. Our Film was therefore incrementally exposed by each overlapping illuminated area on the locomotive to form a complete picture of the locomotive. This was done for each locomotive chosen by the URHS Crew. I don't remember how many locomotives we photographed that night, but it was somewhere around a dozen. It was limited by the cumulative time required to move a locomotive into position, the time required to flash each of the Flash Bulbs and replace one locomotive with another a dozen times. This amounted to several hours.
I took this photograph with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 SLR using Color Print Film, when I was just learning photograph; so they are very soft & grainy. I scanned the Negatives and used Photoshop Elements to correct the exposure and to generate these Digital Images.
Disclaimer: Since I took this photograph while I was still learning Photography, some of my original Photos are of poor quality in both Exposure and Sharpness, which I could only partially correct with Adobe Photoshop Elements™.
Canadian Atlantic Railway Diesel Locomotive, Scranton, Pennsylvania
On September 18, 1992, I went on a Steam Train Excursion sponsored by the United Railroad Historical Society (aka: URHS) in Scranton Pennsylvania (aka: Steamtown"), and a Locomotive Photography Shoot from the Scranton Turntable. I also had time to do a walking tour of the Scranton Steamtown National Historic Site. Further information about Steamtown can be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamtown_National_Historic_Site
This Celebration was called Photographer's Weekend !
I took this Photograph of Canadian Atlantic Railway Number 8023 before the Nighttime Photoshoot. It was posed on one of the Lead Tracks to the Turntable. The Canadian Atlantic Rwy is a Division of CP Rail. It looks like a Water Tank /Tower in the background behind the Locomotive.
During the Nighttime Photo Shoot, the participants (myself included) were directed to set up their Tripod Mounted Cameras on the Turntable with their cameras set for bulb (to control the shutter) and with their lenses set for a specific f-Stop. For each Photo, the URHS Crew would move & Position a Locomotive within view of all of the participants cameras and, told us which f-stop to use. This type of Photography is often referred to as Time Lapse Photography ( aka: Open Lens Photography, aka: Bulb Photography )
They would then move around between the participants and the Locomotive firing Flash Bulbs at numerous spots on each locomotive, so as to completely light all parts of the locomotive (Serially, Not Simultaneously). They did this for each Locomotive chosen by the URHS and we were told when to open our Lenses, followed by their firing all of the Flash Bulbs & when to close our Lenses. Our Film was therefore incrementally exposed by each overlapping illuminated area on the locomotive to form a complete picture of the locomotive. This was done for each locomotive chosen by the URHS Crew. I don't remember how many locomotives we photographed that night, but it was somewhere around a dozen. It was limited by the cumulative time required to move a locomotive into position, the time required to flash each of the Flash Bulbs and replace one locomotive with another a dozen times. This amounted to several hours.
I took this photograph with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 SLR using Color Print Film, when I was just learning photograph; so they are very soft & grainy. I scanned the Negatives and used Photoshop Elements to correct the exposure and to generate these Digital Images.
Disclaimer: Since I took this photograph while I was still learning Photography, some of my original Photos are of poor quality in both Exposure and Sharpness, which I could only partially correct with Adobe Photoshop Elements™.