Neon Adirondacks — Walking downtown one evening, I spotted a row of red Adirondack chairs outside a local business catching overlapping pools of storefront LEDs and a nearby streetlamp; from a shallow angle the chair backs lined up into repeating ribs and the mixed light shifted the red plastic toward a magenta/teal split, so I shot it handheld on a Canon 5D Mark IV with the 24–105mm, exposing a touch dark to protect the glossy highlights and let the background fall moody. In Lightroom I applied lens corrections and noise reduction, cooled the WB slightly to lean the ambient toward cyan, then used HSL to nudge teal toward cyan and magenta toward pink, boosting saturation selectively while pulling luminance down a hair to avoid plastic shine; a gentle S-curve added pop with a soft highlight roll-off, and local masks burned the gaps/background and dodged the crest of the lead chair so the color interaction and rhythm of the chair backs became the subject.

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