{"id":19627,"date":"2017-10-23T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2017-10-19T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:08:31","slug":"sunrise-on-the-new-england-central-working-with-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunrise-on-the-new-england-central-working-with-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise on the New England Central\u2014Working with RAW."},"content":{"rendered":"

A side-benefit for me of transatlantic jet lag is that I\u2019m wide awake for sunrise.<\/p>\n

The other day, I drove to Stafford Springs, Connecticut as the sun was rising.<\/p>\n

Typically New England Central 608 passes the village between 7 and 730 am. On this day it appeared about 724 am.<\/p>\n

Working with my FujiFilm XT1 with 12mm Zeiss Tuoit lens, I made a series of images of the freight passing.<\/p>\n

I carefully exposed my RAW files to retain some sky detail, intending to adjust exposure, contrast and color in post processing.<\/p>\n

It would be fallacious to suggest that the RAW file represents reality. It doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It is important to understand that the camera RAW file is an equivalent of a \u2018negative\u2019 in film photography. The RAW file simply represents the raw data as captured by the camera sensor. This data requires interpretation to produce an image that resembled what the human brain perceives.<\/p>\n

I made a series of small adjustments to highlights, shadows, color temperature, and color balance, while working with masks in the sky to control detail and color.<\/p>\n

My only regret is that my graduated neutral density filters were still packed away in my luggage, as these would have been useful in this situation by allowing for improved sky detail by effectively selective expanding the dynamic capture of the sensor.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve included both the RAW file (scaled for internet) and my interpreted post-processed JPG. To give hints as to what I\u2019ve done, I\u2019ve also included screen shots of the Lightroom work windows.<\/p>\n

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This the uninterpreted image. It is a JPG because this necessary for internet presentation. My RAW file was about 33MB which is far too large for presentation here. Significant to my interpretation is that there is greater detail stored in the RAW file than immediately evident in its presentation on the computer screen. Specifically, there is more color and detail in the sky than displayed here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a screen shot of the Lightroom work window of my RAW file. The red blotch in the sky indicates a loss of data in that area owing to over exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is my finished image following post processing in Lightroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Screen shot showing the alterations on the sliders in the Lightroom work window. Notice the relative placement of data in the histogram (graph at upper right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tracking the Light posts every day.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A side-benefit for me of transatlantic jet lag is that I\u2019m wide awake for sunrise. The other day, I drove to Stafford Springs, Connecticut as the sun was rising. Typically New England Central 608 passes the village between 7 and 730 am. On this day it appeared about 724 am. Working with my FujiFilm XT1 … Continue reading Sunrise on the New England Central\u2014Working with RAW.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","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],"tags":[3786,4308,212,81,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-19-at-6.37.37-PM.png?fit=2560%2C1600","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-56z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627"}],"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=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}