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Tamaqua Comparisons

Evening light at Tamaqua, Pa., allowed for another comparison between my Nikon Z’s in-camera Active D-Lighting JPG contrast reduction setting and my own interpretation of the NEF Raw file.

In this situation, my feeling is that ADL interpretation missed the mark. While it may have softened the contrast, the color and overall interpretation did not accurately render the scene.

Below are the two interpretations. This feature will need further study. On the plus side of this exercise is that I always exposed using NEF and JPG simultaneously.

Scaled version of the in-camera JPG using Active D-Lighting adjustment preset. The ADL feature comes with the Nikon Z camera.
Adobe Lightroom work window displaying the unmodified NEF RAW file.
My interpretation of the Nikon’s NEF RAW file using Lightroom to correct for color, contrast and exposure.

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