Vendor Sheds In Winter, Prudhommes Antique Market
After a less than ideal result yesterday, I headed back to the Prudhommes Antique Market in Jordan, Ontario, on the South shore of Lake Ontario and just off the Queen Elizabeth Way (or simply the QEW to locals), to try and get a shot of some of the vendor booths in the fresh snow. Yesterday morning it was -6C, cloudy and really windy so it was brutal on the fingers trying to work a camera on a tripod. I eventually gave up because of nonfunctional fingers and lousy light. This morning it was -11C but no wind and also a bit of sun was peeking through the clearing storm clouds. It was still hard on the fingers but nothing like yesterday. From yesterday’s trip I knew what I wanted to shoot: a panorama of three of the booths (technically, one was an old trailer), the focal length I wanted as well as the shooting position. I managed to get set up just as the storm clouds were breaking up and the sun began to hit the area I wanted to capture. Then I quickly packed up and got back into my nice warm car to thaw out my fingers. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-02-14
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture Priority mode, Matrix metering, f/10.0, 1/1250 sec with an EV+0.33 exposure bias to compensate for the bright snow, then repeated to cover the area for a total of 3 overlapping frames. The following is a simplified description of the PP so if you have any questions feel free to post a question. First, the frames processed in free, Open Source RAWTherapee to do some initial cleanup nad then saved to TIFF files to retain maximum quality for the nest step. Then the three images were processed in free, Open Source Hugin Panorama Maker software to yield a panorama 15000 x5450 px and saved to ‘TIFF” format. This TIFF format panorama was then processed in free, Open Source RAWTherapee in which a bit of cropping was done to get rid of some edge artifacts from the sloppy crop I did in Hugin, and then the image was Tone Mapped, brightness, contrast, Chromaticity and Vibrance were adjusted, then Th Graduated Neutral Density/GND filter tool was used to darken the snow a bit and better match it to the rest of the image, a bit of noise reduction was applied and the image was sharpened after which it was saved to TIFF format for subsequent processing. The the image was processed in free, Open Source GIMP in which contrast and brightness were adjusted and the image saved without further sharpening. Then the image was scaled to 12000px wide, saved, and a fine black-and-white frame added, the bar and signature was added to the bottom and the image saved, scaled image to 5500 px wide for posting online and saved. No sharpening was done in GIMP.
Vendor Sheds In Winter, Prudhommes Antique Market
After a less than ideal result yesterday, I headed back to the Prudhommes Antique Market in Jordan, Ontario, on the South shore of Lake Ontario and just off the Queen Elizabeth Way (or simply the QEW to locals), to try and get a shot of some of the vendor booths in the fresh snow. Yesterday morning it was -6C, cloudy and really windy so it was brutal on the fingers trying to work a camera on a tripod. I eventually gave up because of nonfunctional fingers and lousy light. This morning it was -11C but no wind and also a bit of sun was peeking through the clearing storm clouds. It was still hard on the fingers but nothing like yesterday. From yesterday’s trip I knew what I wanted to shoot: a panorama of three of the booths (technically, one was an old trailer), the focal length I wanted as well as the shooting position. I managed to get set up just as the storm clouds were breaking up and the sun began to hit the area I wanted to capture. Then I quickly packed up and got back into my nice warm car to thaw out my fingers. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-02-14
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture Priority mode, Matrix metering, f/10.0, 1/1250 sec with an EV+0.33 exposure bias to compensate for the bright snow, then repeated to cover the area for a total of 3 overlapping frames. The following is a simplified description of the PP so if you have any questions feel free to post a question. First, the frames processed in free, Open Source RAWTherapee to do some initial cleanup nad then saved to TIFF files to retain maximum quality for the nest step. Then the three images were processed in free, Open Source Hugin Panorama Maker software to yield a panorama 15000 x5450 px and saved to ‘TIFF” format. This TIFF format panorama was then processed in free, Open Source RAWTherapee in which a bit of cropping was done to get rid of some edge artifacts from the sloppy crop I did in Hugin, and then the image was Tone Mapped, brightness, contrast, Chromaticity and Vibrance were adjusted, then Th Graduated Neutral Density/GND filter tool was used to darken the snow a bit and better match it to the rest of the image, a bit of noise reduction was applied and the image was sharpened after which it was saved to TIFF format for subsequent processing. The the image was processed in free, Open Source GIMP in which contrast and brightness were adjusted and the image saved without further sharpening. Then the image was scaled to 12000px wide, saved, and a fine black-and-white frame added, the bar and signature was added to the bottom and the image saved, scaled image to 5500 px wide for posting online and saved. No sharpening was done in GIMP.