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Friday early morning, the weekend in the Middle East, as most people are enjoying but for this man it's just another working day. Well, he is not alone.
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There are 3 steps in this workflow. But before you start, please consider the following: the photo must be 16bit RAW or uncompressed so that it contains as much (hidden) details as possible. It is also good to under expose the image a little because it is easier to lighten dark areas than to recover burned highlights.
Step 1 - Recovering highlight areas and opening dark areas. I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for this by adjusting “Recovery” and “Fill Light”. Then from the “Photo” menu select “Edit in”, then “Edit in Adobe Photoshop…” to send it to Adobe Photoshop.
Alternatively if you do not have Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, you can also achieve the same result using Photoshop. Open the photo in Photoshop then select "Shadow/Highlight" from the "Adjustment" menu (note: non-"CS" versions of Photoshop does not have this feature). This will give an effect similar to a photo or image which is a combination of 2 or 3 exposures.
Step 2 - Local contrast enhancement using "Dodge" & "Burn" tool on Photoshop.
But first, what is Local Contrast Enhancement or LCE? Think for example of the moon, the global contrast is the lit and unlit area that creates the shapes while the local contrasts are the craters. In simple term, local contrast is the detail. There are ways of enhancing local contrast in Adobe Photoshop and the most common is the USM or unsharp mask. Another method is applying a “high pass” filter on a duplicate overlay layer. In this workflow, I used "Dodge" & "Burn" tools to enhance details manually.
The trick is to identify what part of the photo needs to be dodged or burned, so it is important to have a very good understanding of visual elements. Be aware of the emphasis, what part(s) of the photo you want the viewer to see clearly and what’s not. Once you know what are the areas that need to be dodged or burned use a brush size and shape that matches the size and texture. Also use minimal pressure, around 5%-15% and apply repeatedly rather than applying once with a greater pressure, this will allow you to constantly evaluate the result.
The combination of Step1 and Step2 is similar to Tone mapping in HDR applications.
Step 3 – Tinting (optional)
Applying tint gives the photo a unique mood and feel. There are different ways also of changing the tint. We can use “Photo filter” adjustment layer, we can also use “Color Balance”, “Curve”, “Level”, “Selective Color”, a “Solid Color” overlay, etc. For this workflow, I used the most common one – “Hue/Saturation”. In “Edit” under “Hue/Saturation change “Master” to “Reds” move the slider to the right until the red areas of the image become yellowish, change “Reds” to “Yellows” move the slider to the left until the yellow areas become golden yellow, you may also reduce saturation by dragging the “Saturation” slider to the left. This is just an idea of how to use the options of achieving the effect that we want. Photos are not the same, so what works for this photo may not work for yours therefore you need to experiment, experiment and experiment.
Children work in hazardous occupations under the most intolerable conditions ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. The ILO project's Combating Abusive Child Labour II contributes to the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate child labour, including its worst forms (WFCL).
The photo is from the nation-wide photo competition on child in 2012. ©ILO/Abul Rauf.
Learn more about the ILO's Combating Abusive Child Labour II project: www.ilo.org/islamabad/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_143210/lang-....
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...at Yellow Rock Creek.
Chamonix 045F1, Nikkor-SW 90mm f/8, Fomapan 200, Xtol(1:2)+RO9(1:200) for 9:30 minutes.
Swansea High Street. February 2020.
Swansea was blitzed during the Second World War and suffered extensive bomb damage. This is one of the few buildings that survived in the High Street. It has a rather splendid Edwardian façade but it has been derelict for years.
The Labour Club was previously the Dockworkers Club, and there were entertainment facilities including a cinema and working men's club. 'Heads Up' is a false shop. You can see the signage above from when it was a WH SMITH shop.
Next door, on the right, is the closed pub 'The Shoulder of Mutton', which I have photographed.
It does seem a shame that one of the surviving bits of old Swansea is crumbling away.
Some time ago someone got inside and took photos. Here is a link.
www.oblivionstate.com/community/threads/swansea-dockworke...
2022 Southland Transport Invercargill Trucking Parade [Labour Weekend Sunday 23rd October] South Island, New Zealand.
Photographer: Leighton Smith.
AL Amin (10) is a child labor, He says, "I am not interested in doing this work. I want to go school like others friends. But I am poor. My father can not maintain the family with his only income. I must need to do work. I love education, nd my parents also want to send school, but can not..."
Plantation children in Sri Lanka. © ILO
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This was taken on Labour Day, one of New Zealand's annual public holidays.So why would I give up the chance to sleep in and instead get up really early and drive across the city to catch this serene sunrise?
Because I enjoy doing it, because it makes me happy. It's a labour of love.
Child Labour encompasses all the elements that keep children away from the activities that would lead them to normal and healthy growth. In Asia 22% of the workforce are children.
Elimination of Child Labour is a long process and it can't be done without the help of everyone. The best way to stop child abuse is to make people aware about child rights.
Children work in hazardous occupations under the most intolerable conditions ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. The ILO project's Combating Abusive Child Labour II contributes to the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate child labour, including its worst forms (WFCL).
The photo is from the nation-wide photo competition on child in 2012. ©ILO/Malik Shafiq.
Learn more about the ILO's Combating Abusive Child Labour II project: www.ilo.org/islamabad/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_143210/lang-....
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2014 © "All rights are reserved" worldwide by Tawsif Alam Khan. Please do not use the picture without permission.
Children going to school using a simple raft to pass by a dirty river.
Photo: ©ILO/Asrian Mirza.
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Children work in hazardous occupations under the most intolerable conditions ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. The ILO project's Combating Abusive Child Labour II contributes to the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate child labour, including its worst forms (WFCL).
The photo is from the nation-wide photo competition on child in 2012. ©ILO/Shafiq Bhatti.
Learn more about the ILO's Combating Abusive Child Labour II project: www.ilo.org/islamabad/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_143210/lang-....
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After the devastation of floods and associated landslides in this region of southern India, work was then underway to restore the mountain roads, in what can only be described as 'Very Manual Labour'!
day labour
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Canvas done in acrylics with the word slave labour stencilled over the top in glow in the dark paint (which is largely invisible in daytime)
Take this hand and you will hold its stories;
beat, the heart, and find the tell-tale truth;
take this gift: - receipt will give it value.
It's a labour of love
I offer to you,
it's a gift of love.
Peter Hammill
Children work in hazardous occupations under the most intolerable conditions ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. The ILO project's Combating Abusive Child Labour II contributes to the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to eliminate child labour, including its worst forms (WFCL).
The photo is from the nation-wide photo competition on child in 2012. ©ILO/Anwar Adil.
Learn more about the ILO's Combating Abusive Child Labour II project: www.ilo.org/islamabad/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_143210/lang-....
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Well...that was the General Election that was....almost.
After a four week campaign, the UK went to the polls in to vote today.
I happen to live in a key marginal...lucky me.
"New" Labour have been in power for 13 years.
Tony Blair lied and took us to war in Iraq. Gordon Brown repeatedly boasted of an end to "boom and bust"...but apparently he forgot to tell the banks. We had an economic miracle based on people spending money they (mostly) didn't have...to buy things they (mostly) didn't need. Now we're in economic crisis but it was nothing to do with Gordon...all the fault of the Americans apparently...which I don't think he says when he's in America. Since the events of September 11th, 2001...civil liberties have been steadily eroded. We used to hear that changing our way of life in the face of terrorism would be giving victory to the terrorists...."that's what they want". Apparently there has been a rethink...and we had the ugly spectacle of an elderly member of the Labour Party being removed from a Labour Party Conference under anti-terrorism legislation (which we had been assured would be used "responsibly"). David Milliband has said "You've punished us enough about Iraq". Oh really? I think that's our call Dave.
As for the Conservatives, they have achieved popularity levels in Scotland which were unseen since bubonic plague arrived in the Middle Ages, thanks to Margaret Thatcher. In 1983 at the beginning of her second term there were 21 Conservative MPs in Scotland...at the last election...there was 1...which was probably one more than they deserved. It is possible that they could have ZERO Scottish MPs tonight (as was the case after the 2001 General Election).
The Lib Dems? Well...after the first televised debate three weeks ago, the nation was gripped by Cleggmania...largely on the basis that Nick Clegg came across fairly well, rather than him winning the debate in any conventional sense. He has talked about "new politics"...which appears to be the same thing as "old politics" but with the Lib Dems also having their snouts in the trough.
Oh...and we've had the scandal of hundreds of "honourable members" of Parliament being caught with their hands in the till...claiming for all sorts of bizarre things at taxpayers expense...and fighting tooth and nail to avoid their chicanery being exposed to the public gaze. That's seems a little surprising...since all the main party leaders were "shocked" to learn such things were going on. Aye, and the band played "Believe That if You Like!"
Most people who vote today in the UK will be (effectively) wasting their time going to vote...since they live in a "safe" seat for one party or another. It is possible that the Labour Party could finish third (in terms of popular share of the vote)...but win the greatest number of seats....while the Liberal Democrats could get almost the same share of the vote...but get a fraction of the seats. Democracy in action?
After the election...there will be massive public spending cuts...and increases in taxation...but no party is talking about that...because they want to be elected. Mind you, perhaps we get the politicians we deserve? When the Conservatives started talking about "an age of austerity" their poll ratings plummeted...so they shut up about it.
Last week an audience member on Question Time (rightly) ranted at the assembled politicians who had repeatedly failed to answer questions (e.g. "Does your party rule out an increase in VAT...yes or no?" - "Um...er....we have no plans to raise VAT" [which means "We'll be raising it!"]). She asked...."I just wonder if you think we're all ignorant and you think so little of us that you just can't answer questions? We have a right to get questions answered. You work for US...we pay for YOU....you're here to represent US!"
You go girl!
David Cameron supports "fairer constituencies" of equal size. That would be fairer...and would also be to the benefit of the Conservatives. A mere coincidence, I'm sure.
Nick Clegg supports "fairer voting"...which would benefit the Liberal Democrats most...and yet I have the feeling that if they were to become one of "the big two" who benefits from the current system...their enthusiasm for electoral reform might cool just a tad?
Still...at least my current MP (who is standing down before he would have been thrown out) is a man of principle...well...er....not quite:
www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/230378/Gordon-Browns-pal-Ni...
I heard some analysis a few days ago that this election could be decided by 20,000 voters in 100 marginal constituencies...and I think it's not far from being the truth.
That is clearly not good for democracy.
What will the outcome be? Who knows....the indicators are the Conservatives will be the biggest single party...but with no overall majority.
Nick Clegg has said he will support the party with the largest mandate to govern...but has refused to indicate whether he means "largest share of the vote" or "largest number of seats".
When pressed on this topic yesterday...as "the voters need to know"...he responded "What the voters need to know is...." and rattled off their key manifesto points.
I'm a voter Nick...and I'd like to decide what I need to know...but apparently that's just not part of "new politics" either?
He has said that electoral reform is "an absolute precondition for renewal of this country" but also that there would be "no preconditions" for coalition talks. Eh?
Alex Salmond (of the SNP) probably called it right when he said that we have a choice between "Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, or Tweedle Dem".
OK...rant over...normal photography will be resumed.
Did I vote? Yes...but pretty much on the basis of gritting my teeth and selecting the least distasteful option who had a chance of winning.
Where were the Monster Raving Loony party when I needed them? ;-)
The sun sets on what is traditionally thought of as the end of the Canadian summer. Personally, I'm gonna squeeze another month out of it!
P.S. Any guesses what he's got in the boat? A big pile of fish, a rock for his garden? His wife in a sack?
Heavy crop from a 8x10 Velvia 50 slide - reproduction ratio is as high as bellows would allow, so very close to 1:1.
The film expired in 2001 but came out very good - it appears a little fogged because I forgot to account for reciprocity but this cleaned up very well via exposure correction during scanning.
Shot in a Foldio 2 lightbox. I didn't spot the scan as I intend to rescan it once I've figured out a better film holder solution, for now it's just a 1.5mm thich piece of cardboard with a whole cut in the middle.