Re: Huckleberry Railroad Winter Charter Photos -

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Exquisite, Kevin -
>
> I especially like the sixth shot, the one with
> #464 – it reminds me of those three-day
> Alamosa-Silverton-Alamosa excursions back in the
> early and mid nineteen-sixties, except that modern
> cameras are so much better than Kodachrome at
> capturing shadow detail without washing out the
> sky. 

Hi Russ,

Yes, modern digital cameras can capture an amazing range of shadow and highlight detail, but only if the photographer is shooting in the camera's native format, which is often called a "raw image." JPEGs may be more convenient for most people, but in situations where you have really dark shadows and really bright highlights, something has to give and the image rarely looks like the eye saw it. Raw images need to be edited with Photoshop, Lightroom or a similar program, but they can be manipulated to look like the scene you remember......vs what a film camera would record. The delicate balance is that raw images can also be over-manipulated and if one is not careful, can end up looking like an oil painting. Getting the right balance takes practice.....and a good computer monitor. Hopefully, I get close most of the time.

/Kevin Madore