{"id":18922,"date":"2017-07-21T05:17:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18922"},"modified":"2017-07-18T21:48:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T01:48:27","slug":"rdcs-at-jim-thorpe-pennsylvania-lessons-in-high-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rdcs-at-jim-thorpe-pennsylvania-lessons-in-high-light\/","title":{"rendered":"RDC\u2019s at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania\u2014lessons in high light."},"content":{"rendered":"

Shiny stainless steel trains in high summer light. Another photography challenge.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month during my explorations of eastern Pennsylvania with Pat Yough, we traveled on the Reading & Northern from Reading Outer Station to Jim Thorpe, aboard a restored pair of RDCs.<\/p>\n

The train arrived at Jim Thorpe in the highlight, in other words when the sun is nearly overhead.<\/p>\n

Working with my FujiFilm X-T1, I made a variety of images, then imported the RAW files into Lightroom for post processing.<\/p>\n

As previously described in Tracking the Light, among the tools available with post processing software are various exposure and contrast controls that make it possible to adjust the RAW file to produce a more pleasing final image.<\/p>\n

By lowering highlights, and raising the shadows, while adjusting color temperature, I can maximize the information captured by the camera sensor to produce a more pleasing image that more closely resembles what I saw at the time of exposure.<\/p>\n

Below are a few of my processed images.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after arrival from Reading, Reading & Northern’s RDCs have paused in front of the historic former Central Railroad of New Jersey station at Jim Thorpe. I’ve attempted to make a more pleasing image by lightening shadows and controlling highlights while slightly warming the color temperature to compensate for the proliferation of blue light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a similar image but taken from an in-camera Jpg with pre-selected Fuji Velvia digital color profile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back lit in the gorge near Jim Thorpe. Here a silver train has a contrast advantage over a darkly painted engine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Later in the afternoon the lighting wasn’t as harsh, yet this image still required improvements in post processing to compensate for excessive contrast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Shiny stainless steel trains in high summer light. Another photography challenge. Earlier this month during my explorations of eastern Pennsylvania with Pat Yough, we traveled on the Reading & Northern from Reading Outer Station to Jim Thorpe, aboard a restored pair of RDCs. The train arrived at Jim Thorpe in the highlight, in other words … Continue reading RDC\u2019s at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania\u2014lessons in high light.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[4274,4275,199,1644,4273,4269,2488],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Reading__Northern_RDCs_Jim_Thorpe_DSCF7121.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18923,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18922\/revisions\/18923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}