{"id":39518,"date":"2024-07-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39518"},"modified":"2024-07-11T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:22:50","slug":"reading-northern-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/reading-northern-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading & Northern 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On our visit to Pittston Junction, Pa., in June, we witnessed the early evening arrival of the Reading & Northern’s Pittston-Jim Thorpe excursion. In the lead was R&N’s 40th Anniversary (1983-2023) locomotive number 2023, wearing immaculate fresh paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear skies and low sun made for dramatic light. While impressive, this high-contrast specular lighting result in very dark shadows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Adobe Lightroom, I made a series of easy corrections to the NEF RAW file to lighten the shadows, darken the highlight areas and lower overall contrast. These changes were aimed a producing a more pleasing and more accurate end photograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a note of the difference in the shadows around the locomotive trucks. The wide dynamic range offered by Nikon Z7-II digital camera captures a lot of detail in the shadow areas that may not be evident when viewing the unadjusted RAW file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve included the Lightroom work-window so you can see the relative postion of the slider controls and how these altered the RAW image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lightroom JPG created directly from the NEF RAW file without alteration to color, contrast or exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This JPG was created from the same NEF RAW file as the top image, but reflects changes to contrast and selective adjustment to shadow and highlight areas. See the screenshot of the Adobe Lightroom work- window below for the postion of the slider adjustments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screenshot of the Adobe Lightroom work-window showing the position of slider controls at right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Take a note of the difference in the shadows around the locomotive trucks. The wide dynamic range offered by Nikon Z7-II digital camera captures a lot of detail in the shadow areas that may not be evident when viewing the unadjusted RAW file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39522,"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":[5370,7745,6621],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-11-at-9.03.24\u202fPM.jpg?fit=1700%2C937","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aho","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518"}],"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=39518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39523,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions\/39523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}