{"id":26953,"date":"2019-05-30T06:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26953"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:46:51","slug":"irish-rail-at-sligo-techniques-for-improving-a-dark-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/irish-rail-at-sligo-techniques-for-improving-a-dark-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail at Sligo; Techniques for Improving a Dark Slide."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scaled, but otherwise unadjusted scan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On April 23, 2000, I exposed this view of Irish Rail 072 with Mark 2s at Sligo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a typical overcast Irish day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Fujichrome Sensia II (ISO 100), my result was a slightly underexposed colour slide, common with these unflattering lighting conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To improve the photograph, I scanned the original slide at very high resolution (4000 dpi) using a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 digital scanner and outputted the file as a hi-res TIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then imported the TIF into Lightroom and made a few minor changes to contrast, colour balance, and exposure that I feel make for a much-improved photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adjusted scan.
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While I can output the adjusted file as a TIF, the resulting file size is much too large for presentation on this site. Instead, I\u2019ve made a pair of low-res JPG\u2019s specifically sized for internet presentation here. One is scaled from the un-adjusted original scan, the other is my improved scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contrast and density tweaked for internet viewing on social media.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Working with Fujichrome Sensia II (ISO 100), my result was a slightly underexposed colour slide, common with these unflattering lighting conditions. This is how I improved it: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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":[5718,5717,5719,3639],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Irish_Rail_072_with_Mark2s_at_Sligo_April23_2000_\u00a9BrianSolomon_593229.jpg?fit=5403%2C3592","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-70J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953"}],"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=26953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26953\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}