{"id":17287,"date":"2016-11-15T05:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17287"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:12:08","slug":"dark-cloud-silver-lining-maybe-you-need-a-darker-graduated-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/dark-cloud-silver-lining-maybe-you-need-a-darker-graduated-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Cloud, Silver Lining? Maybe You Need a Darker Graduated Filter."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the challenges of digital photography is its limited dynamic range. While a RAW file gives you more than a compressed JPG, when you\u2019ve reached the limit of the camera sensor, definition in highlights and shadow areas is finite.<\/p>\n

Previously, I\u2019ve experimented with a Lee 0.6 soft graduated filter as means of holding highlight detail in the sky, while providing a satisfactory exposure in foreground areas. Without this tool, I\u2019d risk losing sky detail.<\/p>\n

The 0.6 filter offers a very subtle graduated change. Fine for improving cloud detail on an overcast day, but not as useful in situations with greater contrast. So recently, I upped the ante with a 0.9 soft graduated filter.<\/p>\n

In short, this is darker at one end, thus blocks greater amounts of light, and so provides\u00a0more effective exposure control in scenes with greater contrast.<\/p>\n

As a test, using my FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera I exposed this view at Fitchburg, Massachusetts looking east on the old Boston & Maine Fitchburg Mainline toward Ayer and Boston.<\/p>\n

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FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with 18-135mm lens set at 18mm (equivalent to a 27mm focal length in traditional 35mm film-camera terms), ISO 400, f14 1\/250th second with Lee 0.9 soft graduated filter. \u2018Soft\u2019 describes the relative transition from light to dark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Admittedly this image is unrefined. It is but the first step toward something else, and I\u2019ll continue to explore this topic in later posts.<\/p>\n

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One of the challenges of digital photography is its limited dynamic range. While a RAW file gives you more than a compressed JPG, when you\u2019ve reached the limit of the camera sensor, definition in highlights and shadow areas is finite. Previously, I\u2019ve experimented with a Lee 0.6 soft graduated filter as means of holding highlight … Continue reading Dark Cloud, Silver Lining? Maybe You Need a Darker Graduated Filter.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[1789,3925,3926,3928,3927],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cloud_over_Fitchburg_DSCF8709.jpg?fit=1732%2C1155","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17288,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions\/17288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}