{"id":41742,"date":"2025-05-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41742"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:04:43","slug":"cherry-hill-classic-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/cherry-hill-classic-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Hill Classic Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We arrived at Cherry Hill Road shortly before Strasburg Rail Road’s evening train was due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presented a comparison opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my Nikon Z7-II, I simultaneously exposed in RAW and JPG (with Active D-Lighting feature ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this comparison was to see how close Active D-Lighting would match my post-processing corrections in a ‘perfect’ evening sunlit situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are three versions. The first is the un-modified camera-RAW (scaled and converted to JPG for presentation in Word Press); the second is the same RAW file adjusted in Lightroom to my desired appearance in terms of exposure, contrast, color and saturation. The last is the scaled in-camera JPG with Active D-Lighting feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Un-modified camera-RAW (scaled and converted to JPG for presentation in Word Press). In order to maximize the amount of data captured, I intentionally exposed the RAW on the dark side and plan to adjust highlight and shadows appropriately in post processing. Normally, I would not present the unmodified RAW file.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Same RAW file as above, but adjusted in Lightroom to my desired appearance in terms of exposure, contrast, color and saturation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scaled in-camera JPG with Active D-Lighting contrast-reduction feature.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tracking the Light examines railroad photography every day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The purpose of this comparison was to see how close Active D-Lighting would match my post-processing corrections in a perfect evening sunlit situation.<\/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],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-aRg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742"}],"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=41742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41748,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions\/41748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}