{"id":19902,"date":"2017-11-30T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19902"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:39:58","slug":"chessie-system-against-the-sun-lightroom-instead-of-darkroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/chessie-system-against-the-sun-lightroom-instead-of-darkroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chessie System Against the Sun; Lightroom instead of Darkroom!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a trip to the Pittsburgh area, I made these black & white photos on Tri-X in February 1987 at New Castle, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

While, I like the effects of back lighting on this westward Chessie System train, I was thwarted in my efforts at producing satisfactory prints.<\/p>\n

Complicating my printing problems were edge effects that had resulted in un-even processing that affected the sky highlights more dramatically than shadow areas.<\/p>\n

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This is a scan of the original black & white negative. The photo suffers from flare, uneven processing and less than ideal contrast. Also the sky is a bit over processed and thus appears too dark on the negative (and too light in the prints).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After about a half dozen attempts using Kodak double-weight paper I\u2019d given up.<\/p>\n

The other day this roll of 120 Tri-X finally worked its way to the top of the scanning pile, and after scanning at high-resolution, I thought maybe I\u2019d try to work with the back-lit photos using Lightroom to see if I could improve upon my printing efforts from 1987.<\/p>\n

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This is the un-modified scan from the negative. I’ve not made any corrections to contrast, exposure, or provided localized improvement. Nor have I spotted the image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s the photo after my first round of corrections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Instead of dodging and burning on the aisle, working digitally I\u2019ve applied digital graduated filters to control highlights and shadows, contrast, and the overall exposure.<\/p>\n

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After some more adjusting this is my final image. Not perfect, but a big improvement over the muddy mottled original photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On a trip to the Pittsburgh area, I made these black & white photos on Tri-X in February 1987 at New Castle, Pennsylvania. While, I like the effects of back lighting on this westward Chessie System train, I was thwarted in my efforts at producing satisfactory prints. Complicating my printing problems were edge effects that … Continue reading Chessie System Against the Sun; Lightroom instead of Darkroom!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19898,"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":[10],"tags":[3814,4449,4042,4448,26,2591,199],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/\u00a9Brian_Solomon_MOD2_53601286-3.jpg?fit=1621%2C1233","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902"}],"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=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19903,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions\/19903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}