{"id":42646,"date":"2025-09-04T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42646"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:12:30","slug":"bridge-fantasy-silhouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/bridge-fantasy-silhouette\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Fantasy Silhouette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On occasion I’ll make some heavy adjustments to photo to create a vision, an interpretation, and perhaps something more than just a straight unfettered image of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working from an RAF RAW file I exposed of the railway bridge and famous Dom in K\u00f6ln in September 2016, I made series of alterations to compose a fantasy image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First step was to convert the image to a DNG file using PureRaw. Next I imported the DNG into Adobe Lightroom and made a series of modifications, including some heavy exposure, color, and contrast adjustment to the sky. I then lowered overall contrast, made broad use of the ‘clarity’ slider, and boosted saturation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice all the pad locks, thousands of the them, attached to the bridge in the final result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I made some major changes to color, contrast and exposure, I didn’t add any elements to the photo. This is just one image exposed using a FujiFilm XT1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unmodified RAF RAW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DNG conversion without cropping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DNG with cropping to overcome field distortion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DNG file following modifications using Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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