{"id":5873,"date":"2014-03-15T03:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2014-03-15T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T21:12:58","slug":"heuston-station-lit-for-st-patricks-day-tracking-the-light-daily-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/heuston-station-lit-for-st-patricks-day-tracking-the-light-daily-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Heuston Station Lit For St Patrick\u2019s Day\u2014Tracking the Light Daily Post"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNight Photo Challenge.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The other evening I made this opportunistic photo of Dublin\u2019s Heuston Station. I was on my way to meet a friend for coffee, when I noticed that the station was seasonally bathed in coloured light.\u00a0 I made a couple of quick photos with my Lumix.<\/p>\n

Using my night photography technique (see: Lumix LX-3\u2014part 2: \u00a0Existing Light Digital Night Shots<\/a>)\u00a0I tried to balance the exposure in order to compensate for the very contrasty scene.<\/p>\n

I set the over-exposure for +1\/3 and allowed the camera to set the exposure using\u00a0 the \u2018A\u2019 (aperture-priority) setting (set for f2.0).<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>
This is the in-Camera Jpg file. While the lights on the station are properly exposed, the over-all image appears too dark. The exposure was f2.0 a 1\/6th of second at 200 ISO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, the exposure was still too dark for my liking. While the front of the station is properly exposed, the rest of the scene was unacceptably dark.<\/p>\n

I compensated with some post-processing contrast\/exposure adjustment. Yet, I still feel this photo is too dark. But, since I\u2019m walking distance from Heuston, I can return and try this again! As they say on the radio, \u2018stay tuned!\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Working<\/a>
Working with the camera RAW file, I lightened the image using Photoshop while selectively controlling contrast and saturation. While much better than the camera produced Jpeg, I still feel this image is too dark. This however demonstrates the advantage of working with a RAW file, which has considerably more information than a comparable Jpeg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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