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While out for a walk in the Westdale area of Hamilton, Ontario along Winston Churchill Park, I came across a pet subject of mine, a fire hydrant with chipped/damage multiple layers of different coloured paint. From the bright shiny bolt head, I suspect some of the damage is recent. Regardless, a nice splash of colour creating an unintended abstract. A quick capture with my cell phone and then I continued with a pleasant Spring walk. - JW
Date Taken: 2019-04-12
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, full auto, ISO40, f.2.2, 1/140 sec. PP in free Open Source GIMP from Samsung SOOC jpeg file: crop a bit of the right side of the frame to get a more symmetrical layout, scale image to 6000px wide, use the tone curve tool to darken the bottom 1/3 of the tonal range then pin the upper end of the curve to hold it at default while pulling up/brightening the middle portion between the two ranges just adjusted, duplicate the image to a new top layer and on that new layer add a black/transparent layer mask, paint in the bottom left corner using white paint and a large soft-edged brush to mask the brighter part of the lower left part of the frame, then use the brightness-contrast tool to both darken and boost contrast of the bottom left corner to get a more uniform tonality across the frame, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Rusty fire hydrant seen on my way to work this morning - amazing (to me, at least) the beauty that is present in the mundane.
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The hydrant is dead, long live the hydrant...
Something old, something new, something blue...
Hidrant je mrtav, živio hidrant...
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Captured with a manual Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack.
I'm sort of overwhelmed by the saturation of Velvia. And this is only 100 - I can't imagine what the 50 is like. Of course I'd heard about it, but in my mind it was something more like Ektar, with a different color balance. Instead it's more like lomography or a digital camera set to Vibrant, or a photo saturated in Photoshop. This shot has no post processing whatsoever, beyond what the lab did to scan it of course. I don't dislike it, but I'm not sure whether I like it.
Next roll - I'm going to run through my LTM Leica with the prewar lens - uncoated - which may offset the intensity a bit - for better or worse, we'll see!
Canon AE-1P
FD 135mm f/2.8
Velvia 100
Absolutely SOOC other than conversion from raw
McCormick Mansion
Cantigny Park
Wheaton, Illinois 41.856372, -88.153856
April 10, 2023
This was my first visit to Cantigny since last fall. And the exterior remodeling on the mansion is nearly complete. One of the new additions is fire hydrants. In addition to these two, I counted three more within 50 yards of where I was standing. And that was just a casual search. I'll pay more attention next time. Evidently, the fire insurers had a word with the management. ;-)
But it was (and will be) more opportunities for my latest project. www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/albums/72177720307428484
And this project is the result of the fun I have teasing all of you folks in other countries who don't know the joy of above-ground fire hydrants.
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