photography

Old 89—More Touit

Yesterday, following a trip to the Down at the Farm Creamery, Kris and I returned to the Strasburg Rail Road.

The only camera I had with me was my trusty FujiFilm XT1 and 12mm Zeiss Touit wideangle lens.

I might tell you that I only use my FujiFilm XT1 occasionally, instead preferring my Nikon Z cameras and Lumix LX7. However, since I December, I’ve exposed more than 800 images with the XT1. (So I guess I make pretty good use of this camera after all!).

Among these were the few photos that I made of Strasburg Rail Road’s 2-6-0 No. 89 working toward Cherry Hill Road. I wanted to make the most of the scene, and the Zeiss 12mm Touit was a pretty good option.

I converted the camera’s RAF RAW file to a DNG file using DxO PureRaw, and then created two versions by making adjustments to color, contrast and exposure using Adobe LightRoom.

I’ve included each my three files below.

This is the RAF RAW file following conversion to a DNG file but without correction, cropping, adjustment or changes, except for scaling for internet presentation with final output as a Jpg.
This is the same DNG file but following cropping and adjustments using multiple masks to improve contrast and exposure.
I was dissatisfied with the first round of changes, so reset the previous round of corrections and began again. In this view, I masked the sky and made changes to exposure and contrast, then made a variety of subtle changes to contrast, color and exposure. Admittedly, the two interpretations are very similar, but I feel that this one has a bit more ‘snap’ to it, and just looks better.

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