Selfridge's.

© 2017 Bill Lim. All rights reserved.

Nevada Falls Foot Bridge (⬆elevation 5,938'/1,810m). In the foreground, coursing under the Nevada Falls foot bridge, is the Merced River. To the left, out of the picture, would be Nevada Falls.

Standing in the background is Liberty Cap (⬆prominence 956'/291m).

Camera details:

• Olympus E-30

• Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f 2.8/3.5 lens

• Save to Olympus RAW (ORF)

• Image stitched from 3 images.

Workflow

• rawtherapee v5.0-r1 to "develop" three RAW ORF (Olympus RAW) images. For each of the three adjust their exposure from -2.0ev to +2,0ev in 0.5ev increments, for a total 9 exposures per image. Save each exposure to a 16-bit TIFF for a total of 27 TIFF images (3 images x 9 exposures = 27).

• enfuse v4.2 to blend each image's exposure stack (9 per stack). I.e. (en)fuse the 9 images into a single 16-bit TIFF image. In the end there will be a panorama stitched (next step) from the three (en)fused TIFF images.*

• hugin v2016.2.0 to stitch a equirectangular panini projected panorama image from the three enfused 16-bit TIFFs. Save the panorama as a 16-bit TIFF image.

• rawtherapee again, to convert the panoramic color image into a black-and-white image; adjust global and local contrast, black level, etc.

• Perform noise reduction with Noise Ninja.†

• GIMP v2.8.18

  ▹ Crop to final size

  ▹ Add copyright text to lower-right of the image.

• exiftool v10.23 to copy the .ORF EXIF tags back into the final JPEG. And to set other tags, e.g. keywords.

• digikam v5.5.0 to geotag image (using its GPS track log time-correlation feature).

• Linux Kubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

• MSI GT683 laptop with an Intel i7-2630QM Quad-core 2.0GHz processor and w/16GB RAM.

* Automation software was employed to reduce the large number of image processing steps involving rawtherapee and enfuse.

† Noise Ninja is a Windows applications. To run it on Linux, WINE v1.8.5 is required.

Penhard

Hanway Place.

Regent Street.

Cocooned in pink folds.

Selfridge's Duke Street.

Berners Street.

Regent Street.

Barrett Street / James Street.

Berners Street.

The Deva Mall Building --- detail with one of the logo corners. [?]

Selfridge's

KODAK PORTRA 160 NC périmée.

Tottenham Court Road.

James Street.

Citroën Traction Avant

© 2016 Bill Lim. All rights reserved.

Tenaya Lake (⬆elevation 8,150'/2,480m) with Polly Dome (⬆elevation 9,806'/2,989m) in the background.

Camera details:

• Olympus E-30

• Zuiko Digital 14-54mm f 2.8/3.5 lens

• Save to Olympus RAW (ORF)

• Panorama stitched from 10 images.

Workflow

• rawtherapee v4.2 to "develop" 10 RAW ORF (Olympus RAW) images. For each of the 10 adjust their exposure to -1.0ev, 0.0ev, and +1.0ev. Save each exposure to a 16-bit TIFF for a total of 30 TIFF images (10 images x 3 exposures = 30).

• enfuse v4.2 to blend each image's exposure stack. I.e. (en)fuse the -1.0ev, 0.0ev, and +1.0ev images into a single 16-bit TIFF image. In the end there will be a panorama stitched (next step) from the 10 (en)fused TIFF images.*

• hugin v2016.2.0 to stitch a equirectangular panini projected panorama image from the 10 enfused 16-bit TIFFs. Save the panorama as a 16-bit TIFF image.

• rawtherapee again, to boost contrast, adjust black level, shadows, highlights, color balance, etc.

• GIMP v2.8.18

  ▹ Resize to final dimensions.

  ▹ Add copyright text to lower-right of the image.

• Apply output sharpening with Focus Magic.†

• exiftool v10.23 to copy the .ORF EXIF tags back into the final JPEG. And to set other tags, e.g. keywords.

• digikam v5.4.0 to geotag image (using its GPS track log time-correlation feature).

• Linux Kubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

• MSI GT683 laptop with an Intel i7-2630QM Quad-core 2.0GHz processor and w/16GB RAM.

* Automation software was employed to reduce the large number of image processing steps involving rawtherapee and enfuse.

† Focus Magic is a Windows application. To run it on Linux, WINE v1.8.5 is required.

Oxford Street.

Daisies in the undergrowth

Oxford Street.

Wigmore Street.