{"id":41716,"date":"2025-05-14T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41716"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:13:13","slug":"tamaqua-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/tamaqua-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamaqua Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Evening light at Tamaqua, Pa., allowed for another comparison between my Nikon Z’s in-camera Active D-Lighting JPG contrast reduction setting and my own interpretation of the NEF Raw file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this situation, my feeling is that ADL interpretation missed the mark. While it may have softened the contrast, the color and overall interpretation did not accurately render the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are the two interpretations. This feature will need further study. On the plus side of this exercise is that I always exposed using NEF and JPG simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scaled version of the in-camera JPG using Active D-Lighting adjustment preset. The ADL feature comes with the Nikon Z camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adobe Lightroom work window displaying the unmodified NEF RAW file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My interpretation of the Nikon’s NEF RAW file using Lightroom to correct for color, contrast and exposure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Evening light at Tamaqua, Pa., allowed for another comparison between my Nikon Z’s in-camera Active D-Lighting JPG contrast reduction setting and my own interpretation of the NEF Raw file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41719,"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":[6621,6867,8311],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-13-at-9.01.21\u202fPM.jpg?fit=2048%2C1210","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aQQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716"}],"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=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41721,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions\/41721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}