H. Christina MacNaughton
Chris describes her career as a lawyer as ‘… 25 years of waging peace.’ She practiced in St Catharines, Ontario specializing in family law during the period 1977-2002 including 8 years with Lancaster, Mix & Welch. Subsequently, Chris served with legal aid until 2012, after which she retired to Grimsby, Ontario. Along the way, she coauthored, with Barbara A Chisholm, the book ‘Custody/Access Assessments – A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Assessors’ which can be found in all Ontario courtrooms as a resource in the negotiation of family law issues, and which she is holding in this image. In 1984 she qualified as a family mediator, one of the first lawyers in Niagara to do so. In addition she served on the Ethics Committee of the Ontario Association For Family Mediation as well as a lay member of the Ontario College of Certified Social Workers.
Chris is shown in Courtroom #8 of the Robert S. K. Welch Courthouse in downtown St Catharines, Ontario, one of two courtrooms in which much her work took place. The courtroom itself is (relatively) modern but wooden panels, dias, jury boxes, lawyers desks, etc., are all elements relocated from the original Lincoln County courthouse dating back to 1849. Aside from her professional association which this courtroom, it was also where she was married.
- JW
Dates Taken: Courtroom – 2018-03-08, portrait – 2018-03-20
Tech Details:
This is a composite image. The photo of the courtroom/background was taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm. The Portrait of Chris was done in a different location using the Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D lense, and lighting provided by a strobe setup consisting of a pair of large octagonal soft-boxes fitted with radio-triggered strobes. Each image was processed using Free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source files to produce files that were subsequently combine in Free Open Source GIMP. The process is quite detailed and is not described here. However, if you have specific questions, just post them in the comments.
H. Christina MacNaughton
Chris describes her career as a lawyer as ‘… 25 years of waging peace.’ She practiced in St Catharines, Ontario specializing in family law during the period 1977-2002 including 8 years with Lancaster, Mix & Welch. Subsequently, Chris served with legal aid until 2012, after which she retired to Grimsby, Ontario. Along the way, she coauthored, with Barbara A Chisholm, the book ‘Custody/Access Assessments – A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Assessors’ which can be found in all Ontario courtrooms as a resource in the negotiation of family law issues, and which she is holding in this image. In 1984 she qualified as a family mediator, one of the first lawyers in Niagara to do so. In addition she served on the Ethics Committee of the Ontario Association For Family Mediation as well as a lay member of the Ontario College of Certified Social Workers.
Chris is shown in Courtroom #8 of the Robert S. K. Welch Courthouse in downtown St Catharines, Ontario, one of two courtrooms in which much her work took place. The courtroom itself is (relatively) modern but wooden panels, dias, jury boxes, lawyers desks, etc., are all elements relocated from the original Lincoln County courthouse dating back to 1849. Aside from her professional association which this courtroom, it was also where she was married.
- JW
Dates Taken: Courtroom – 2018-03-08, portrait – 2018-03-20
Tech Details:
This is a composite image. The photo of the courtroom/background was taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm. The Portrait of Chris was done in a different location using the Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D lense, and lighting provided by a strobe setup consisting of a pair of large octagonal soft-boxes fitted with radio-triggered strobes. Each image was processed using Free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source files to produce files that were subsequently combine in Free Open Source GIMP. The process is quite detailed and is not described here. However, if you have specific questions, just post them in the comments.