{"id":40138,"date":"2024-09-29T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=40138"},"modified":"2024-09-28T22:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T02:33:23","slug":"overexposed-on-the-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/overexposed-on-the-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Overexposed on the Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among the remarkable qualities of the Nikon Z cameras is their exceptional exposure latitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t set out to make bad photos, but every so often I simply have the camera set incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other day, on our Sunday drive, Kris and I spotted Norfolk Southern’s local freight on the New Holland Branch at Leola, Pa. I pulled over and made a photo using my Nikon Z6 with 70-200mm lens set to 175mm. The problem was that I had the ISO set at 1000 and the f-stop set to f2.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The camera gave me the fastest shutter speed, 1\/8000th, which still left my photo more than a stop over-exposed. Working with Adobe Lightroom, I was able to recover most of the data from the NEF RAW file and present a decent representation of the image, including considerable sky detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also made a series of properly exposed photos, but I’m aiming to demonstrate that even in situations of extreme overexposure, it is possible to adjust the file to present a decent image if your equipment has captured the data in RAW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEF RAW file, converted to JPG without adjustement. This is at least one full stop overexposed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is the same file as above, but featured my first round of adjustments to correct for the over exposure. In my opinion, the photo still needed some work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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NEF RAW file after my second round of corrections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is my Lightroom work-window that shows the postion of the slider controls and the degree of adjustments necessary to correct for the overexposed photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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