[PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?

[Howard Andrews]

I'll add my 2 cents here...  
I enlarged the number area and this appears to be car 4333.  Don't know if
that helps narrow things down or not, but at least it does identify the car.

Enlarging the sky area and bumping up the contrast shows strong evidence of
Photoshop retouching.  The horizontal lines is very typical of cloning one
area to fill and replace something in the original image.  

Not sure if someone was trying to clean up a 'so-so' scan or something else.

Howard

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
Clark Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 8:22 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?

Mr.Brannon!  You definitely have "something" with the extra hanger; it is in
a different-higher plane than the running wires with 'span wire'
that disappears at the left running wire.  Also note how the two outside
wires 'appear' further apart at the next span; they should appear closer
shouldn't they.
The truck appears fine to me but it can be the monitor, my eyes, a
combination of these can't it.

I am not convinced of a burn-in or feathering for hilites.  That over "Mon
City" looks chopped and ragged.  It still gives a 'hint' of a picture
through the back window of an auto.

To consider other possibilities, double exposures were a problem if the film
wasn't wound or the photographer forgets not winding.

The asphalt paving at this time and the surrounding construction suggests
something recent where a temporary shoofly might be built on top of the
roadway on our left for bi-directional travel.
Another trolley wire(s) could be strung for temporary use.

Probably not photoshopped but could be dark room magic of the day to
accomplish something similar just for fun.  It is a charter so why not go
further and create something unusual.

Shall we ever know for certain?


Phil





>________________________________
> From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:52 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?
> 
>As long as I keep seeing rear-truck wheels which do not match up to the
running-rails in the street and as long as I keep seeing a "third" trolley
wire hangar in between the two outside trolley wires it is pretty obvious
that this is a made-up job.
>


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