{"id":19873,"date":"2017-11-24T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19873"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:18:31","slug":"connecticut-river-crossing-contrast-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/connecticut-river-crossing-contrast-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut River Crossing\u2014Contrast Adjustment."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I exposed this view of New England Central 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer) crossing the Connecticut River at East Northfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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New England Central 611 crosses the Connecticut River at East Northfields, Massachusetts. Exposed with a Fuji Film XT1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To compensate for the back lit high-contrast scene, I made a few necessary adjustments in post processing.<\/p>\n

Working with the Camera RAW file, I applied a digital graduated filter across the sky and locally lowered highlight density, while altering the contrast curve and boosting saturation.<\/p>\n

I then made global adjustment to contrast and saturation across the entire image, while brightening the shadow areas. The intent was to better hold detail in the sky.<\/p>\n

To make this possible, it was necessary to expose for the sky, and allow the train and bridge to become comparatively dark. I did this knowing I\u2019d make adjustments after the exposure.<\/p>\n

For more detail on this photographic technique see: Irish Rail 085 with Ballast Train at Sunset\u2014lessons in exposure and contrast adjustment.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last week I exposed this view of New England Central 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer) crossing the Connecticut River at East Northfield, Massachusetts. To compensate for the back lit high-contrast scene, I made a few necessary adjustments in post processing. Working with the Camera RAW file, I applied a digital graduated filter across the sky and … Continue reading Connecticut River Crossing\u2014Contrast Adjustment.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19872,"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":[4439,4537,3847,1490,3039,212,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NECR_3475_611_Conn_River_East_Northfield_DSCF1684.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873"}],"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=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19874,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions\/19874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}