{"id":39119,"date":"2024-05-20T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39119"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:34:26","slug":"steam-with-a-cotton-candy-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/steam-with-a-cotton-candy-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam with a Cotton Candy Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent visit to Strasburg, found engine 89 working an extra passenger train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setting sun had briefly illuminated the clouds of what I call a ‘cotton candy sky’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As 89 was uncoupled to begin its run-around, I made this silhouette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing that I’d make adjustments in post-processing, I exposed the photo manually in order to capture the detail in the sky. The enormous data capture afforded by the Z-series cameras allowed for a two-stop lightening of the shadow areas and considerable adjustments to sky while affording global changes to contrast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below I’ve included the NEF RAW file (scaled as a Jpg, but without adjustments to exposure, contrast, color etc) and the final adjusted file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also included two screenshots of the Adobe Lightroom work windows to demonstrate how I accomplished some of the corrections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAW file without adjustment to exposure, contrast, color balance etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Final adjusted file adapted from the RAW NEF file. Note the high level of detail recovered from the shadow areas. This is a single frame exposure and not an blend of images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I exposed the photo manually in order to capture the detail in the sky. The enormous data capture afforded by the Z-series cameras allowed for a two-stop lightening of the shadow areas and considerable adjustments to sky while affording global changes to contrast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[7941,6631,7121,3847],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-19-at-7.55.45\u202fPM.jpg?fit=1800%2C1125","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aaX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39119"}],"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=39119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39126,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39119\/revisions\/39126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}