{"id":20356,"date":"2018-02-09T05:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2018-02-08T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:33:23","slug":"ni-railways-lisburn-sunset-variations-on-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/ni-railways-lisburn-sunset-variations-on-a-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Railways\u2014Lisburn Sunset: Variations on a theme."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are colour and black & white views at NI Railway\u2019s Lisburn station exposed at sunset in late January 2018. Both original images were exposed within a few moments of each other.<\/p>\n

The colour photo was exposed in RAW format using my Lumix LX7 digital camera, while the black & white image was made on Kodak Tri-X exposed using a Nikon F3 with 24mm Nikkor lens. (Film processed in ID11 1-1 for 8 minutes at 20C (68 F).<\/p>\n

I imported the files into Lightroom and made a series of contrast adjustments to better balance the sky with the train, station and platforms.<\/p>\n

I made my changes to compensate for limitations of the recording media while aiming for greater dynamic presentation.<\/p>\n

Below are both the unaltered files, Lightroom work windows, and my penultimate variations, which are aimed to demonstrate the changes, the means of alteration, and my results.<\/p>\n

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Unaltered RAW file (except for scaling necessary for internet presentation). Exposed with a Lumix LX7. I have not yet interpreted the data captured by the camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lightroom work window showing some of the corrections and adjustments that I’ve made to the camera RAW file. I’ve also manually leveled my image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My final output from the altered RAW file. This shows my adjustments to contrast and exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Unmodified scan of my original black & white negative (reversed to make a positive image). I have not yet made corrections to the file. Note the muddy shadows and overall flat contrast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lightroom work window showing level correction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lightroom work window showing various global contrast controls and changes. I’ve also made localized changes to the sky using a digitally applied graduated filter (shown with lateral lines across the sky) and a radial filter (not shown) \u00a0to the front of the train. Notice the relative position of central sliders at right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Final black & white output\u2014original image exposed on Kodak Tri-X. Notice how the film image does a better job of rendering detail in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here are colour and black & white views at NI Railway\u2019s Lisburn station exposed at sunset in late January 2018. Both original images were exposed within a few moments of each other. The colour photo was exposed in RAW format using my Lumix LX7 digital camera, while the black & white image was made on … Continue reading NI Railways\u2014Lisburn Sunset: Variations on a theme.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20352,"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":[10,48],"tags":[4439,3814,7535,4309,1620,1644,3923],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-27-at-10.44.19-AM.png?fit=2560%2C1600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356"}],"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=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20357,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions\/20357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}