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According to this photo, my optical mouse data LED appears to strobe @ at least 120htz. ;-) It also kinda feels like what an alien half-pipe might look at if they were into intergalactic cosmic skateboarding.
This photo was created as part of a multi-photographer Camera Toss Group collaboration.
The pattern primitive image used with permission and under the terms of the Creative Commons; Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 2.0 license.
See Shared Source Collaboration #1 and results.
See also all results of such themes.
While trying to get to a family function in Listowel, Ontario yesterday we missed a turn and found ourselves on a side-road, specifically Line 87. It was snowing pretty hard and while going ‘just a little further’ to make sure we had not inadvertently failed to go far enough, I spotted this isolated old farmhouse in a large open field. In the snow, it looked like a vintage, hand-tinted photo. I stopped (luckily no other vehicles out there in those conditions), grabbed the camera and got off a few hand-held frames before turning back and retracing our steps, eventually winding up in the right place. So I had an image in the camera and an impression of how it was supposed to look. A lonely farmhouse in a snowstorm. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-02-26
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm 1:4.0lense set to 120mm, ISO100 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Shutter Priority Mode, f/9.0, 1/500. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: correct vignetting, slightly brighten the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV+0.31, slightly boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlight detail (mainly for the snowy areas) and very slightly boost shadows, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly boost the contrast, use the Hue-Lightness-Saturation tool to select the cyan channel and reduce its saturation somewhat to get a more neutral snow and sky, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px high, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px high for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
I originally made this image in February 2013, processed it as a 3 image HDR using free Open Source Luminance HDR, posted it on Flickr, and left it to collect dust, as is the case with many of my images. I decided to revisit this image and see what tweaks I could make to it given a few years worth of learning in the intervening period, and this is the result. The improvements consist primarily of larger size, noise reduction and also bringing out the blue mural in the upper right so you can see it better than in the original posting. Sadly, the Cat ‘n’ Fiddle is now long gone. So, a bit of nostalgia. - JW
Date Taken: 2013-02-09
Originally posted: 2023-02-14 to Flickr
Date updated PP: 2025-03-26
(c) Copyright 2013, 2025 JW Vraets
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The Cat 'N' Fiddle, described by the owners as “...a family owned and run British pub established in 1993...“, occupies the South-west corner of John and Augusta in old downtown core of Hamilton, Ontario. This was taken the night after the 'Big snowstorm of 2013', as many will describe it in the future, and is a companion to one I recently posted. Clearly, business was a little slow that night, likely because people were still trying to dig themselves out, or simply couldn't get there while the road cleanup was in progress. As you can see, the building is somewhat whimsical in its paint scheme. This view at the corner shows what must have been the main entrance in days past, but now serves as a sign only, with the real entrance off to the right in this view. The claim to offer live entertainment several nights a week and if you look carefully in the windows of the old front entrance, you can just make out a microphone from the stage setup. Love shooting at night in the old downtown core areas. So many opportunities, so little time. - JW
Original Tech Details:
This is a hybrid HDR image made by using three bracketed exposures to capture the wide lighting level range, then processing using HDR software to produce two different versions emphasizing, in one version, detail, and in the other, colour, and then blending the two versions, and finally, further combining that result with elements of the original image sequence to bring out local areas of improved detail.
The original three image bracketed sequence was made using a tripod-mounted Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISO200, Aperture priority exposure mode, f/6.3, three exposures at EV+/-2 around a base shutter speed of 1/2 sec. HDR processing was done using Luminance/Qtpfsgui to produce a Mantiuk '06 version and a Fattal version. PP in GIMP: Load the Mantiuk version as the top layer and the Fattal version as the lower layer, reduce the Mantiuk layer opacity to approximately 50% to get a good blend of detail and colour, create a new layer from the visible result, use auto colour balance to reduce the sodium vapour lamp colour cast, apply tone curve and contrast to get a good 'realistic' look, do local replacement of some details with elements (such as lamps and interiors) from the original EV+0, EV+2 and EV-2 images (loaded as layers and selective erasure with creation of new layers from visible results as needed), do some minor local cleanup and brightening a few details like snow peaks, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1024 wide for posting.
Back in December, I was out on one of the roads through the orchards in area East of Beamsville, Ontario and came across this interesting colour abstract composition at the point where a farm lane came out to Tufford Road. The first thing to catch my eye was the day-glo green mailbox but then I realized a long lense and the resulting compression would let me include both a yellow and a green reflective lane marker. Finding a suitable position from which to shoot, I was able to set this up as a an abstract. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-12-20
(c) Copyright 2021 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a AF-P DX Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.3 set to 240mm, ISO100, Matrix metering, Auto WB, Aperture Priority mode, f/6.0, 1/500 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon JPEG source file (I really liked how the camera processed the image and got a tad frustrated in the RAW processing software trying to match, much less improve, on that): set final image size to be 9000px wide, adjust colour balance by using the Pick tool and sampling off the shaft of the red lane marker, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, 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 3000px wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save. Sometimes it is just that simple.
During our visit to Paisley, Ontario last month, I headed out to capture some images in spite of the wet conditions. Mother Nature was trying to decide whether it was supposed to be misty or lightly raining and the effect was to get everything just wet enough to be irritating but not enough to force me to head indoors. On the main street in Paisley(Queen St) is the local ice cream parlour, Tomboi Artisan Ice Cream, but it was not open as it was a Monday. The facade of the business was colourful and a tad quirky so naturally I had to photograph it. - JW
Date Taken: 2023-06-12
Date PP: 2023-07-02
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with a Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 Macro, ISO500, Auto WB, Aperture priority mode, Matrix metering f/9.0, 1/200 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source files: set final image size to be 9000px wide,crop a little off the right side and top (preserving the original aspect ratio) to get rid of an intrusive house on the right, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated and shifted to cover and then darken the sidewalk and roadway so as to be less visually distracting, use the Tone Curve 2 tool in Parametric mode to brighten the darkest areas, boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase Vibrance, apply a small amount of noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: significantly darken the strip of the frame to the right of the building’s right edge to tone down the visually distracting car and building, use a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer to dodge/brighten the door area, boost overall saturation a bit, slightly boost overall contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide, sharpen, save.
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.
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.
This is an image from a camera test undertaken back in May 2021. The camera, a vintage, Minola Autocord CDS twin-lens-reflex (circa 1963) was put through its paces using expired Ilford Delta 100 film (expired) and all worked fine with the exception of the CDS meter which, like most such sensor systems from that era, had ceased to operate. The cells fail over time, as it turns out. Here is an image taken of the weathered door at 23A Main Street West in downtown Grimsby, Ontario. Still a lovely camera. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-05-29
Date PP: 2025-01-16
(c) Copyright 2025 JW Vraets
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Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted vintage (Circa 1963) Minolta Autocord CDS twin-lens-reflex (TLR) camera loaded with a 12 exposure roll of Ilford Delta 100 B&W film (Expired 2007- Mar). Exposure determined using a Nikon D800 to produce a test exposure and then transferring the settings to the Minolta (the D800 makes a great light meter BTW). The film was developed in Kodak HC-110 Dilution B. Frames were scanned using an Epson Perfection V500 Photo in 16-bit grey scale mode and output to a TIFF file. Pp in free Open Source RAWTherapee from TIFF format scan output: apply perspective correction, crop off some residual black border from negative, use Highlights/Shadows to reduce highlights a bit and also bring up the deepest shadows on the planter, use Tone Curve 2 tool in Parametric mode to further bring out shadow detail and also further tame the highlights, apply the Graduated Neutral Density/GND too rotated to cover the sidewalk and darken it a little, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: sharpen, clone out dust spots, sharpen, save, scale to 6000px wide, 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.