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Iron smelting in Elsarn

Iron smelting by night in the Archaeological Open Air Museum in Elsarn, Austria ( http://www.freilichtmuseum-elsarn.at ).
Using flash, as other visitors did, would have ruined the athmosphere, so I metered for the glowing parts. For the furnace in full blow this worked quite fine. But the smithing of the bloom got lost in darkness. A chunk of red iron in a mostly black picture is not very interesting. D-Lighting in Nikon's Picture Project (Photoshop could do this too) chiseled out the very last bit of contrast in the dark parts, adding a strange and unworldly look.
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Iron smelting experiment
Iron smelting experiment
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Opening the furnace
Opening the furnace
Taking out the iron bloom
Taking out the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Smithing the iron bloom
Heting apples instead of iron
Heting apples instead of iron