Hey guys,
As many of you know, I'm quite the railfan. I've had a model railroad since I was a couple of years old which grew into a massive layout (more than 3,000 pieces of rollingstock (engines, freight cars, passenger, etc). That layout took up a 2 car garage and took 20+ minutes to go from one end of the layout to the other. Yeah, it was big! It's not that big anymore and currently resides with my parents at about 1/4th the size of the track. Still have all the rollingstock, but never built up a layout when I moved to Nebraska 12 years ago.
Anyway, I was chatting with @Artashes the other day and telling him how I drove about 3 hours last week to see a steam engine roll by at 40mph (a few minutes of enjoyment, but well worth it in my book).
I took two video cameras with me. If you're interested in seeing the videos you can check them out here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNr1-yTOLay6qjIvfXKAHAg They're the first two videos on the list.
Anyway, we were talking about the sky getting blown out (too much white) and how to counter it. It's a lot harder to do in post-production than if I had configured the histogram and ISO in the camera.
Since I recorded in 4k @ 60fps, I was able to export some pretty good shots to JPG and then tweak them as needed. I've attached them here (original & revised). If anyone wants the larger version and wants to play in their graphic editors to see if they can make the picture pop even more, feel free to message me and I'll shoot you over the larger image.
Just figured I'd share what I've been playing with the past hour or so.
As many of you know, I'm quite the railfan. I've had a model railroad since I was a couple of years old which grew into a massive layout (more than 3,000 pieces of rollingstock (engines, freight cars, passenger, etc). That layout took up a 2 car garage and took 20+ minutes to go from one end of the layout to the other. Yeah, it was big! It's not that big anymore and currently resides with my parents at about 1/4th the size of the track. Still have all the rollingstock, but never built up a layout when I moved to Nebraska 12 years ago.
Anyway, I was chatting with @Artashes the other day and telling him how I drove about 3 hours last week to see a steam engine roll by at 40mph (a few minutes of enjoyment, but well worth it in my book).
I took two video cameras with me. If you're interested in seeing the videos you can check them out here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNr1-yTOLay6qjIvfXKAHAg They're the first two videos on the list.
Anyway, we were talking about the sky getting blown out (too much white) and how to counter it. It's a lot harder to do in post-production than if I had configured the histogram and ISO in the camera.
Since I recorded in 4k @ 60fps, I was able to export some pretty good shots to JPG and then tweak them as needed. I've attached them here (original & revised). If anyone wants the larger version and wants to play in their graphic editors to see if they can make the picture pop even more, feel free to message me and I'll shoot you over the larger image.
Just figured I'd share what I've been playing with the past hour or so.