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The Mogul or the wheat?

On a sultry Saturday, Kris and I drove to Esbenshade Road to catch up with our friend Doug Scott, who was on his way north.

The return of a mid-afternoon excursion was due shortly, and we could hear Strasburg Railroad’s 2-6-0 Mogul No. 89 working west.

I was impressed by the field of wheat alongside the line and set up a photograph to feature this classic crop with the passing locomotive. I have no shortage of photos of the Mogul, so I was more interested in emphasizing the wheat, with the engine in the distance.

I exposed this series of images using my Nikon Z6 with a 24–70mm lens, then converted the NEF RAW files to DNG format using DxO PureRAW 5 with DeepPRIME corrections before importing the DNG files into Lightroom to make minor cosmetic adjustments, improving contrast and enhancing the texture of the grain.

So, which is the subject of these photos: the Mogul or the wheat?

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Is there room for subtlety?

In a world of short attention spans, sensory overload, an expectation of hyper-saturation, the realities of unwanted image compression, is there any room for subtle images?

The other night I made this panned high-ISO image of Amtrak ACS-64 616 westbound at Gap, Pennsylvania.

Afterward, I experimented with various tools to make post-processed interpretations of my original NEF RAW file.

I used DxO PureRaw, and imported this file into DxO Photolab, and later into Adobe Lightroom.

There are three of my variations below.

I wonder if the variations will translate via WordPress, or if the subtleties will be lost in translation?

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