{"id":22289,"date":"2018-09-21T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2018-09-22T04:19:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T08:19:33","slug":"irish-rail-071-in-retro-orange-and-exposing-for-raw-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-071-in-retro-orange-and-exposing-for-raw-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail 071 in Retro Orange and Lessons in Exposing for RAW Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, 21 September 2018, I knew that Irish Rail 071 would be working the up IWT Liner. This bright orange locomotive would allow me to make a dramatic photo in a situation where a grey or silver locomotive wouldn\u2019t be as effective.<\/p>\n

Selecting my vantage point from the Old Cabra Road in Dublin, I faced an unusually contrasty situation. Dramatic fluffly clouds were racing across the sky, rapidly alternating between bright backlit sun and a relatively dark scene with a distant bright sky.<\/p>\n

To make the most of this, I used my Lumix LX7 to make a couple of test photos. Then opted to under expose my final photo by about 1\/3 of stop. This would allow me to retain a bit of detail in the sky, which I could then adjust in post processing.<\/p>\n

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My first test shot. This is a Jpg made without contrast, colour, or other image adjustment taken directly from the Camera RAW file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My second test shot; from the camera Jpg without post processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the unmodified camera Jpg. Notice the relative darkness of the cutting compared with the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final photos required several steps of adjustment \u00a0to the RAW file.<\/p>\n

1) I applied a digital graduated neutral density filter to bring in the sky highlights<\/p>\n

2) I warmed up the overall colour temperature to counter act the prevalent blue light as result of the heavy shadows.<\/p>\n

3) Contrast was softened.<\/p>\n

4) Shadows lightened<\/p>\n

5) A radial filter was applied to the front of the engine to lighten it slightly.<\/p>\n

6) I increased the overall colour saturation slightly to counter the effects of dull lighting in the cutting.<\/p>\n

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Screen shot of the Lightroom work window for my first adjusted version of the RAW image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My first attempt at modifying the RAW image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My second modified RAW file. This one is warmer and involved a second graduated neutral density filter to enhance the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Friday, 21 September 2018, I knew that Irish Rail 071 would be working the up IWT Liner. This bright orange locomotive would allow me to make a dramatic photo in a situation where a grey or silver locomotive wouldn\u2019t be as effective. Selecting my vantage point from the Old Cabra Road in Dublin, I faced … Continue reading Irish Rail 071 in Retro Orange and Lessons in Exposing for RAW Adjustment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22300,"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":[4916,4915,4712,2356,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-21-at-3.29.15-PM-1.jpg?fit=3577%2C2236","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5Nv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289"}],"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=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22301,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions\/22301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}