{"id":33559,"date":"2022-06-03T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=33559"},"modified":"2022-06-02T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:23:45","slug":"underexposed-f-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/underexposed-f-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Underexposed F-Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I made a series of exposures of Conway Scenic’s May 22nd special Railfan Photographer’s Mountaineer at Crawford, NH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these views the locomotives were fighting the light with the sun nearly behind the subject at a relatively high angle in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this discussion, I underexposed the scene, which allowed me to retain detail in the sky and other highlight areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By importing the camera NEF RAW file into Lightroom I was able to make adjustments to the shadows and highlight areas to compensate for the undesirable effects of underexposure while retaining adequate detail across the exposure range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is in part possible because of Nikon Z6’s full-frame sensor with an enormous dynamic range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the three views: The top is the uncorrected NEF file scaled for internet. The bottom two are screen shots of the Lightroom work window to show how I implemented changes to the NEF file before scaling for internet presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scaled but uncorrected NEF RAW file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lightroom work window showing first round of corrections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lightroom work window showing second round of corrections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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