Disparada sin salir de casa.

Suenan en el giradiscos Led Zeppelin:

"How Many More Times"

Abrazos.

Granny Carpenter's hat, embroidered by Ele Carpenter, 2007.

Nokia C2-01, post processing in Digikam.

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... with D'Arcy, Alan and Jon. Open-source ale (only passable brew, alas)...

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A couple of months back I was heading for the car which was parked in one of the downtown Grimsby, Ontario parking areas, specifically one immediately West of the local Giant Tiger store. Parked beside that lot is the current incarnation of the Chip Wagon, a local institution, which, although, admittedly, not up to the colour value of the earlier iterations, still reflected nicely in in the pools on the wet pavement. Added to that was a deep blue sky and the result was a nice abstract. As for the colours, they are a bit exaggerated, but not as much as you might suspect given the late day lighting. - JW

Date Taken: 2023-03-04

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Tech Details:

Taken using a hand-held (resting on stone wall, actually) Olympus OM-D EM-5 fitted with an Olympus M Zuiko 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 II lens set to 40mm, Manual Exposure mode, Auto WB, Matrix metering, ISO200 (Auto ISO), f/7.1, 1/4160sec with an EV-0.70 exposure bias to help deepen the colours. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORF source image: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop image to a 2:1 format, slightly boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase Vibrance, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Curves tool to shift the black point to meet the bottom of the data curve while maintaining the mid-point at the original level, sharpen very slightly, save, scale image to 6000px wide, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 wide for posting online, save.

This is Thursday so it is a ‘Throwback Thursday’ image for today. Taken back in 2011 shortly after I got my D5000, I headed over to Kelson Beach on the West boundary of Grimsby, Ontario along the South shore of Lake Ontario. The weather was brutally cold albeit sunny and the lake was putting up ‘sea smoke’. A Nor’easter was moving in from the right. I managed to get a few frames while I could and before my fingers suffered frostbite. The joys of Winter landscape photography. This particular frame had never been processed prior to today. Just one of far too many that have gotten lost until today and another reason to partake in Throwback Thursdays. - JW

Date Taken: 2011-01-23

Post Processed: 2022-11-24

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Tech Details:

Taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-55mm VR lense set to 18mm, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, Matrix metering, Auto WB, f/7.1, 1/1000 sec. PP In RAWTherapee from Nikon JPEG source file (I did not shoot RAW/NEF back then, sadly) set final image size to be 9000px wide, level the image, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated and shifted to cover the bottom right diagonal of the frame and then use it to slightly lighten (not darken) that area to better match tonality of the rest of the frame, slightly boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, apply a little noise reduction, sharpen (edges only) save. PP in GIMP: crop to a 16:9 format to get a more panoramic look which I felt better suited the subject, duplicate the image t a new top layer and boost its contrast and brightness to brighten the shore ice, add a black/transparent layer mask to this top layer and on the mask, paint in the shore ice with a large soft-edged brush and white paint thereby allowing the sky and lake from the lower layer to show with the shore ice from the top layer, create new working layer from visible result, apply a little overall contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 7100px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3700 wide high for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.

Sander & Guido playing with their phones

At an late afternoon/early evening shoot at Pier 9 in Hamilton, Ontario, a set of favourable (at lest for my photos) set of weather conditions set up an opportunity for the sun to shine beneath the cloud layer and illuminate the tugs. Barges and industrial buildings as the sun set. It started to rain as this was all shaping up and a double rainbow formed at what would otherwise have been a ‘normal’ Golden Hour but in this panorama, only a small portion of the main rainbow is visible along the right side. - JW

Date Taken: 2016-06-06

Tech Details:

Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D lense, ISO100, WB set to daylight, Aperture priority mode, f/6.3, 1/8 sec with an exposure bias of EV+0.33 to help compensate for the influence of the extremely bright areas for 4 overlapping frames. Panorama created from the 4 frames using free Open Source Hugin and saved to tiff format file. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust the tone curve to set the black point and then pull the curve down (darken) at about the ¾ way across point to get a better tonal representation of the bright areas, adjust the colour balance tool to reduce the red cast a bit (but not remove it as that is how it was), sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale to 1200 vertical for posting, sharpen, save.

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Revisión del downloading MP3 tras las declaraciones de Bill Gates sobre Open Source, licencias CC y comunismo. Lo malo es que no recuerdo donde la encontré.

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Do you see the kids on top of the bridge?

It took a bit of patiences to get a shot with MOST of the visitors out of frame.

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San Francisco on a still summer night. Taken from Twin Peaks.

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Technically not infrared, but a different spectrum filter.

The purple foliage comes from using a full spectrum converted camera with an 85A filter. NO color channel swapping or photoshop effects.

What makes this shot unusual (besides the filter) is that the fog is coming from the opposite direction from what it usually does.

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Taken with a 650nm IR filter. using a full spectrum modified NEX-5N.

Post production:

3x exposure bracketed images were combined to remove noise and increase the dynamic range. Photomatrix software was used for this. (Highly recommend this product.)

For "Golden IR" effect. Simply swap the red and blue channels in Photoshop.

No masking or per-pixel manipulation was done.

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