{"id":43198,"date":"2025-12-27T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=43198"},"modified":"2025-12-25T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:27:06","slug":"old-89s-drama-enhanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/old-89s-drama-enhanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Old 89’s Drama Enhanced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made this image of Strasburg Rail Road’s 2-6-0 89 charging up the grade toward Esbenshade Road with my Z7-II with 70-200mm Nikkor zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make the most of image, I applied a variety of corrections to the original NEF RAW photo using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end result was even more dramatic than the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Without cosmetic modification.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lightroom control panel showing the position of exposure\/contrast control sliders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Following cosmetic modification.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light Explores railroad photography!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To make the most of image, I applied a variety of corrections to the original RAW photo using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[8467,5295,7122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-9.36.48\u202fPM-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1573","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-beK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198"}],"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=43198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43202,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198\/revisions\/43202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}