Yesterday, I was among observers as Pennsylvania’s Strasburg Rail Road switched with 2-6-0 89. This included a move to position EMD-built SW8 8618 in the engine shop nearest the station.

This is a lesson in back lighting and the lightening of shadows in post processing.

I worked with my FujiFilm XT1 with 16-55mm Fujinon zoom, exposing my photos in RAF raw format. Later I converted the RAW files to DNG format using Iridient X-Transformer. Finally, I made post processing corrections in Adobe Lightroom. This involved lightening the shadow areas and adjusting sky density.

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