Change Is Good, Queen St W, Toronto
Another one from the vault and never processed … Back in Spring of 2015, the three (of four) Bando de Kvar (flickr.com/groups/2472126@N24/ ) members participated in an expedition to the wilds of Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, to engage in some street photography. We were wandering along pointing cameras at various things when I spotted a sign in a shop window. The sign read ‘Change Is Good’. I decided to stand just at the edge of the sidewalk and pre-focused to a suitable distance and waited for someone to come by. As luck would have it, a woman jogger was passing by so I set up the framing to capture the sign and tripped the shutter as she entered the frame. Slow shutter (my mistake) rendered her as a blur, which, in retrospect, worked out well now that I had the distance of time to reassess the image dispassionately. The colour original was likely why I had not bothered with it back in the day. But my recent exploration of the works of notable street photographers gave me a different perspective so I opted to process it as B&W, which I rather like. - JW
Date Taken: 2015-05-24
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 30mm, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/9.0, 1/40 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 8000px wide, convert to B&W using the green and red channel gamma adjustments to darken the image’s darkest areas, increase contrast and decrease lightness in L-A-B mode, recover highlight detail using the Shadows/Highlights tool, sharpen (edges only), save, PP in free Open Source GIMP from jpeg source file: use the contrast/brightness tool to further boost contrast while preserving highlight details, duplicate the image to a new top layer for adjusting the lettering on the window, boost the contrast on the lettering adjustment layer to get the letters to stand out better and then add a black/transparent layer mask on which I painted the letters in white so the brighter letters stood out on the otherwise good details on the lower layer, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Change Is Good, Queen St W, Toronto
Another one from the vault and never processed … Back in Spring of 2015, the three (of four) Bando de Kvar (flickr.com/groups/2472126@N24/ ) members participated in an expedition to the wilds of Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, to engage in some street photography. We were wandering along pointing cameras at various things when I spotted a sign in a shop window. The sign read ‘Change Is Good’. I decided to stand just at the edge of the sidewalk and pre-focused to a suitable distance and waited for someone to come by. As luck would have it, a woman jogger was passing by so I set up the framing to capture the sign and tripped the shutter as she entered the frame. Slow shutter (my mistake) rendered her as a blur, which, in retrospect, worked out well now that I had the distance of time to reassess the image dispassionately. The colour original was likely why I had not bothered with it back in the day. But my recent exploration of the works of notable street photographers gave me a different perspective so I opted to process it as B&W, which I rather like. - JW
Date Taken: 2015-05-24
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 30mm, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/9.0, 1/40 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 8000px wide, convert to B&W using the green and red channel gamma adjustments to darken the image’s darkest areas, increase contrast and decrease lightness in L-A-B mode, recover highlight detail using the Shadows/Highlights tool, sharpen (edges only), save, PP in free Open Source GIMP from jpeg source file: use the contrast/brightness tool to further boost contrast while preserving highlight details, duplicate the image to a new top layer for adjusting the lettering on the window, boost the contrast on the lettering adjustment layer to get the letters to stand out better and then add a black/transparent layer mask on which I painted the letters in white so the brighter letters stood out on the otherwise good details on the lower layer, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.