By manipulating the tones in a photograph during post-processing, you can emphasize and de-emphasize various parts of the picture. In this shot of an old truck at the Gold King Mine in Jerome, Arizona, I darkened the background and added subtle highlights to the red paint of the truck. You can do this in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom, and you can also do it in Photoshop itself. I manipulated this picture in ACR. Notice how dark the bottom part of the picture is as well as the wooden structure in the background. We still see the rustic environment, but it's the truck that commands our attention simply because of the technique I used to change the tones for artistic advantage. In essence, this is simulating the light painting technique I discussed in my previous blog.
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