{"id":31762,"date":"2021-08-17T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=31762"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:22:42","slug":"empty-beet-on-the-barrow-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/empty-beet-on-the-barrow-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Beet on the Barrow Bridge:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On December 28, 2005, toward the end of Irish Rail\u2019s final beet season, I stood on the western shore of the Barrow, where I aimed a Nikon F3 fitted with a 180mm f2.8 lens and loaded with Fujichrome toward the multiple span Pratt truss that crosses the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NI Railways 112 (on loan to Irish Rail) worked east across the span at about 5mph with a train of four-wheel empty beet wagons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night I scanned the nearly 16-year old slide using my Epson V600 scanner at relatively high resolution (3200 dpi) then imported the resulting TIF file into Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RAW scan exhibits a minor red tint. To compensate I made a variety of changes. First I moved the black point to the limit of data loss with the aid of the histogram. This adjusted the tonal range of the slide, then I worked with green-magenta and blue-yellow color correction sliders to balance the color, while paying close attention to hue in the shadow areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally I made some nominal contrast and saturation changes to make for a more pleasing image before outputting as a medium resolution JPG  crafted for optimum internet presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the unadjusted JPG along with my final adjusted JPG for comparison. Since every computer screen is slightly different and provide varied interpretations of my images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the proof of\u00a0\u00a0success for my adjustments may be in the color prints that I have yet to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a JPG made from the unadjusted TIF scan. Notice the slightly red hue and a lack of a rich black tone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the scan following adjustment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screen shot of the Lightroom work window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, I\u2019ve also included a screen shot of the Lightroom control panel so that you may see how I\u2019ve moved the sliders to improve the scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light examines photography daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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