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11 years ago—PA at Spencer

Eleven years ago, I attended the Streamliners at Spencer event in North Carolina with fellow photographer Pat Yough.

Over the course of three days I exposed hundreds of photos of the myriad preserved locomotives and roling stock on display.

While the various EMD diesels were the stars of the show, one of the curiosities was this former Santa Fe Railway Alco PA dressed as Nickel Plate Road 190.

Working with a Lumix LX7, I made this image at dusk on the evening of 31 May 2014.

Below are three versions (all scaled for internet presentation as Jpg images);

1) the unaltered Lumix RAW file.
2) DxO PureRaw converted Lumix Raw DNG file without adjustment to exposure or constant.
3) The cropped Pure Raw DNG following adjustments to shadows and highlights, contrast and exposure, with localized exposure control in the sky using Adobe Lightroom’s sky-mask AI feature.

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