The Flower Girls, Hylands House
The reason (actually an justification for a trip) we had travelled to the East coast of England was to attend the wedding of the daughter of long-time family friends. The reception for the wedding was in the form of high tea at a magnificent estate, Hylands House (www.hylandsestateweddings.co.uk/ ) in Chelmsford, England. While the adults were busy ‘adulting’ , the flower girls (accompanied by the ring bearer) were busy tearing around the estate through an area with a beautiful flowering tree. I followed them to this area and the scene brought to mind romantic, Victorian-era English paintings of children playing in fields and woods. This is not my usual style of image I use in postings but I rather liked this. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-05-07
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 25 mm, ISO200, Daylight WB, Aperture priority, f/7.1, 1/40 sec with an EV+0.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image up to 9000x6000, set exposure to slightly brighter than default, increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost vibrance slightly with protection for face tones on, boost black level slightly, set white balance to very slightly warmer than camera as-shot, enable highlights/shadows and boost highlight recovery to pull out best dress detail and also boost shadows slightly to bring out facial details, sharpen, enable micro-contrast, enable noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: open levels tool and enable auto-adjust to simultaneously improve contrast, tonal values and colour balance, use dodge-burn tool and a soft brush to slightly brighten the face of the girl on the right, do a rough select of the pink blossoms use the hue-saturation-lightness tool on the magenta channel to both brighten them and boost their saturation, sharpen, save, scale to 6000x4000 (my preferred size for images intended to be posted online), sharpen slightly, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting and save.
The Flower Girls, Hylands House
The reason (actually an justification for a trip) we had travelled to the East coast of England was to attend the wedding of the daughter of long-time family friends. The reception for the wedding was in the form of high tea at a magnificent estate, Hylands House (www.hylandsestateweddings.co.uk/ ) in Chelmsford, England. While the adults were busy ‘adulting’ , the flower girls (accompanied by the ring bearer) were busy tearing around the estate through an area with a beautiful flowering tree. I followed them to this area and the scene brought to mind romantic, Victorian-era English paintings of children playing in fields and woods. This is not my usual style of image I use in postings but I rather liked this. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-05-07
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 25 mm, ISO200, Daylight WB, Aperture priority, f/7.1, 1/40 sec with an EV+0.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image up to 9000x6000, set exposure to slightly brighter than default, increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost vibrance slightly with protection for face tones on, boost black level slightly, set white balance to very slightly warmer than camera as-shot, enable highlights/shadows and boost highlight recovery to pull out best dress detail and also boost shadows slightly to bring out facial details, sharpen, enable micro-contrast, enable noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: open levels tool and enable auto-adjust to simultaneously improve contrast, tonal values and colour balance, use dodge-burn tool and a soft brush to slightly brighten the face of the girl on the right, do a rough select of the pink blossoms use the hue-saturation-lightness tool on the magenta channel to both brighten them and boost their saturation, sharpen, save, scale to 6000x4000 (my preferred size for images intended to be posted online), sharpen slightly, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting and save.