Window & Christmas Lights In The Fog
Out on my foggy night walk a few days ago, I passed by the Forks Road Pottery on Ontario Street in Grimsby, Ontario. Located in an old train station, the building is now used for (as its name suggests) pottery manufacturing and sales as well as antiques sales, with a bit of architectural salvage sales thrown in. Outside, beside the building, a few window frames were set up leaning against a wrought iron trellis still bearing the remains of some type of flowering vine. Standing in one particular place it was possible see through the mist-covered window panes, to a lighted Christmas wreath in the main window, and by focusing on the window glass, this highly colourful and textured image was made. An exercise in colour, form and texture. - JW
Date Taken: 2018-01-22
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense, Daylight white balance, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/5.0, 1 sec with an EV-1.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 9000x6000, use the as-shot exposure, increase contrast and Luminance and also slightly decrease lightness in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, enable shadows-highlights and significantly recover highlights as well as slightly boost shadows, increase vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly pull up (brighten) the mid-tones, slightly increase saturation to clean up the colours, use the colour balance tool to shift the balance to the green side and thus help reduce (slightly) the orange cast in the shadows, sharpen, save, scale to 6000x 4000, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
Window & Christmas Lights In The Fog
Out on my foggy night walk a few days ago, I passed by the Forks Road Pottery on Ontario Street in Grimsby, Ontario. Located in an old train station, the building is now used for (as its name suggests) pottery manufacturing and sales as well as antiques sales, with a bit of architectural salvage sales thrown in. Outside, beside the building, a few window frames were set up leaning against a wrought iron trellis still bearing the remains of some type of flowering vine. Standing in one particular place it was possible see through the mist-covered window panes, to a lighted Christmas wreath in the main window, and by focusing on the window glass, this highly colourful and textured image was made. An exercise in colour, form and texture. - JW
Date Taken: 2018-01-22
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense, Daylight white balance, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/5.0, 1 sec with an EV-1.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 9000x6000, use the as-shot exposure, increase contrast and Luminance and also slightly decrease lightness in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, enable shadows-highlights and significantly recover highlights as well as slightly boost shadows, increase vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly pull up (brighten) the mid-tones, slightly increase saturation to clean up the colours, use the colour balance tool to shift the balance to the green side and thus help reduce (slightly) the orange cast in the shadows, sharpen, save, scale to 6000x 4000, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.