Richmond Bridge

This is Richmond Bridge, in Richmond, Tasmania. It is the oldest bridge in Australia. I remember taking a photo of this about 35 years ago on colour print film on my Pentax ME Super. I took this when I was there at the end of last year.

I updated DxO PhotoLab 9 to the latest version (with most of the new features in the latest version of PureRAW) and used this photo to play around with the new denoise, masks, local adjustments and the new High-Fidelity DNG Compression Export. I really need to start using this software more. I found some of the masking a bit unintuitive to start with but after looking at some YouTube videos and practicing I'm getting much better at it.

Tasmania was first settled in 1803. There is at least one other bridge of a similar age to this one but I think it's mainly brick. I guess most of the first bridges were wooden and didn't last that long. Also many stone ones would have needed replacing because they were too small. This is a small town so this bridge is adequate size.

I updated PhotoLab from v.7 to 9. With this latest update to 9.6, with most of the new features of PureRAW, it's worth upgrading just for the better noise reduction & High-Fidelity DNG Compression I reckon.

I could post jpeg of the unprocessed RAW file if you wish but on a small compressed file on here you probably won't be able to see the more nuanced adjustments easily.