{"id":41698,"date":"2025-05-11T08:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41698"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:57:14","slug":"active-d-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/active-d-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Active D-Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve continued to experiment with my Nikon Z’s ‘Active D-Lighting’ contrast reduction feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this example, I photographed an Indiana & Ohio C40-8CW in the New England Central yard at Palmer, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a perfect opportunity to see how the Active D-Lighting feature would accommodate high-contrast midday sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the ADL feature only affects the in-camera JPG, I opted to craft a comparison image working from a PureRaw converted RAW file that I manually adjusted using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jpg is right out of the camera and scaled for internet; the converted RAW file required a host of manually implemented color, contrast, and exposure corrections to make the most of the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any thoughts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In-Camera JPG with Active D-Lighting feature. Other than size scaling, this is free from adjustment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon NEF RAW file adjusted manually. Consider the difference in truck detail between this photo and the In-camera JPG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Active D-Lighting at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[8295,7337,6310],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aQy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41698"}],"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=41698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41702,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41698\/revisions\/41702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}