Forge Welding

22Aug10

Another from Blist’s Hill Victorian Town – a live demonstration of forge welding.  I thought that flash might be distracting for the smith and with fire and hot metal around I didn’t want to chance it; so, this is an available light shot.

The dynamic range of this shot was considerable and I needed to recover a lot of highlight detail using Aperture’s extended curves function and full Recovery.  Hefty Definition was applied to partly mitigate for the shallow depth of field of the wide open aperture.  A slight s-curve added some contrast.

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