Idling
I have got in to the habit of checking my OneDrive store on a daily basis, where I am served an "On this Day" photo feed from our digital archives.
It seems 22 Jan 2005 was a Saturday. I remember going with Carolin and the boys to Wymondham for a walk near the river, followed by coffee and breakfast. Joshua was just less than a year old and asleep in the push chair, Samuel was 2 1/2. It was a pleasant, sunny winter's day with some frost lingering. Samuel and I were equally delighted to see 50019 meander over the crossing, on a non-running day, at Wymondham Abbey, before coming to a stop while a crew got down to do some work or other trackside. I have another picture of Samuel running towards me from the train, full of excitement.
After enjoying the photo series in OneDrive, I decided to see if my somewhat more advanced editing skills, as compared to nineteen years ago, could achieve anything with it in Lightroom. I am moderately satisfied with this version, where I have adjusted the colour tone slightly and the levels across highlights, shadows and exposure. I have started to make more use of Lightroom's Texture features too.
At this time, I was using a Fujifilm S602 zoom. It was more digicam than DSLR and shot JPEG, so although I had archived this as a DNG file originally, the editing flexibility is minimal. Hence, almost nothing could be done about the overexposed sky without introducing a significant amount of artefact.
In our time living in Norfolk, we took a number of trips on the Mid-Norfolk, although only when they ran steam hauled services. It is a lovely heritage railway that seems to have come out of the other side of COVID reasonably well, as far as I can deduce online.
Idling
I have got in to the habit of checking my OneDrive store on a daily basis, where I am served an "On this Day" photo feed from our digital archives.
It seems 22 Jan 2005 was a Saturday. I remember going with Carolin and the boys to Wymondham for a walk near the river, followed by coffee and breakfast. Joshua was just less than a year old and asleep in the push chair, Samuel was 2 1/2. It was a pleasant, sunny winter's day with some frost lingering. Samuel and I were equally delighted to see 50019 meander over the crossing, on a non-running day, at Wymondham Abbey, before coming to a stop while a crew got down to do some work or other trackside. I have another picture of Samuel running towards me from the train, full of excitement.
After enjoying the photo series in OneDrive, I decided to see if my somewhat more advanced editing skills, as compared to nineteen years ago, could achieve anything with it in Lightroom. I am moderately satisfied with this version, where I have adjusted the colour tone slightly and the levels across highlights, shadows and exposure. I have started to make more use of Lightroom's Texture features too.
At this time, I was using a Fujifilm S602 zoom. It was more digicam than DSLR and shot JPEG, so although I had archived this as a DNG file originally, the editing flexibility is minimal. Hence, almost nothing could be done about the overexposed sky without introducing a significant amount of artefact.
In our time living in Norfolk, we took a number of trips on the Mid-Norfolk, although only when they ran steam hauled services. It is a lovely heritage railway that seems to have come out of the other side of COVID reasonably well, as far as I can deduce online.