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John Reay wrote: "I was looking at Mark Bailey's image of NKP 765 passing the Lima locomotive works when I started to reflect on the quality of light in that picture. It almost looks painted, perhaps a watercolor." Thank you for your comment, I take it as a compliment, but I really cannot take credit for the light. It is a lucky shot. It is true that the image you see was scanned from an 8x10 print on a flat bed scanner, but that quality of light you see is due to the very low level of the sun. The only impact I can detect from the flat bed scanner is a general "softness" to the image. The train was "scheduled" to leave town just before sunrise, but as is typical, was delayed just enough to let the sun clear the trees by about 5 minutes. That morning, I was thinking about where in Lima I could get some light on the tracks that early. Lima has many large oak and maple trees which shadow the tracks until the sun is up a ways. Where the tracks cross Main Street is one of the few areas where there is enough clearing to get light on the tracks. The light was nearly horizontal and the train is strongly side to back lit. The light shining on the building is passing thru the smoke and steam exhaust from the 765. That somewhat uneven light on the building is due to the smoke. The orange color is due to the low light of the sunrise. It is an 80mm shot in 35mm format on Fujicolor 100. It had rained for about 48 hours until about 6:00 AM that morning when a cold front out of Canada blew the clouds away, so the air was unusually clean. I wish every morning I could get light that good. I have a professionally printed 8x10 hanging by my desk and the colors are exactly the same as the photo on the SPORRS home page, at least on my monitor. I did not change the color in the imaging, just used a sharpening filter to clean up the soft scan. Many times since then, I wish I had shot it on slide film, instead of print, but that's life. The 8x10 was printed by Cheryl at Colour Klassic Professional Lab in Delphos, Ohio. I know she always liked printing this one, because mostly she did weddings and senior photos and liked this image as a change of pace. Mark Bailey Rockford, IL ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
