{"id":42453,"date":"2025-08-12T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=42453"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:09:59","slug":"sunset-at-mount-sidney-road-smoketown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sunset-at-mount-sidney-road-smoketown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset at Mount Sidney Road\u2014Smoketown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What better place to catch a smoky sky than in Smoketown?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve eyed up this location for a few years now. It’s not great in bright daylight, but I’ve thought it might make a nice view in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night, Kris and I had gone for ice cream, and afterwards were driving around in the post sunset glow. Canadian fires continue to tint the evening sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We parked off Mount Sidney Road, I had time to frame up the scene, set the ISO rating on my Z7-II to 8000, and lo-and-behold, there was the blue-white sheen of an ACS-64’s headlights on the rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even at ISO8000 my exposure was f4 at 1.60th of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I processed the NEF RAW file using DxO PureRaw to create a DNG file, which I then imported into Lightroom for minor adjustment. Among other corrections, PureRaw eliminated the granular effect of ISO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the straight NEF RAW scaled and converted to JPG but unaltered in terms of appearance (exposure, color, contrast, grain or vignette-control).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Straight NEF RAW scaled and converted to JPG but otherwise unaltered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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NEW RAW after conversion to DNG and cosmetically adjusted in Lightroom to enhance appearance. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Above is my interpreted NEF RAW file after conversion to DNG with changes to color, contrast, exposure etc.; below is the same file with extreme interpretation of color, contrast and exposure. The result is surreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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