Dead & Artificial Flowers On Grave
Walking through the Queen’s Lawn Cemetery in Grimsby, Ontario, The Boss and I passed a number of graves which were in need of attention now that Autumn has arrived and many of their small grave plantings have died. Here, some hostas have turned their Autumn yellow and litter the ground, which in itself sports a thick layer of cedar debris. Mixed in with all this stuff are a few artificial flowers made of fabric and which hold onto their colours, albeit a tad faded. The entire effect is one of chaos. I am not one who is fixated on simplification of images. I am perfectly fine with chaos if it works for me. The effect reminds me a bit of some stained glass panel or possibly a bit of Renaissance still life paintings.
And as for Rich (Rich Border, www.flickr.com/photos/116895768@N03 ) .... I have not abandoned colour but as I said yesterday, sometimes you need to dabble in the arcane art of B&W to appreciate colour. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-11-21
(c) Copyright 2021 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 75mm, ISO360 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/320 sec with an EV+1.33 exposure bias to compensate for the light subject). PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop a little off the left to get a 5:7 aspect ratio, enable Tone Mapping at default settings, enable Dynamic Range Compression at default levels, slightly boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, very slightly boost Vibrance, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly boost contrast, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to boost the magenta channel saturation only, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
Dead & Artificial Flowers On Grave
Walking through the Queen’s Lawn Cemetery in Grimsby, Ontario, The Boss and I passed a number of graves which were in need of attention now that Autumn has arrived and many of their small grave plantings have died. Here, some hostas have turned their Autumn yellow and litter the ground, which in itself sports a thick layer of cedar debris. Mixed in with all this stuff are a few artificial flowers made of fabric and which hold onto their colours, albeit a tad faded. The entire effect is one of chaos. I am not one who is fixated on simplification of images. I am perfectly fine with chaos if it works for me. The effect reminds me a bit of some stained glass panel or possibly a bit of Renaissance still life paintings.
And as for Rich (Rich Border, www.flickr.com/photos/116895768@N03 ) .... I have not abandoned colour but as I said yesterday, sometimes you need to dabble in the arcane art of B&W to appreciate colour. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-11-21
(c) Copyright 2021 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 75mm, ISO360 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/320 sec with an EV+1.33 exposure bias to compensate for the light subject). PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop a little off the left to get a 5:7 aspect ratio, enable Tone Mapping at default settings, enable Dynamic Range Compression at default levels, slightly boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, very slightly boost Vibrance, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly boost contrast, use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to boost the magenta channel saturation only, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.