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Another image for my ongoing project capturing Barton Street East in Hamilton, Ontario. This is the back portion of an alley between 355 and 357 Barton just past the end of the murals at the entrance to that alley. The yellow doors look like they have been recovered from some derelict building’s doors. The pink-painted brick wall contrast nicely with the yellow doors. - JW

Date Taken: 2024-10-08

Date PP: 2024-10-08

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Taken using hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 24mm, ISO100 (Auto ISO), Auto WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/7.1, 1/250 sec with an EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source: Set final image size to 9000px wide, crop to a 5:7 format by cutting off some distracting detail along the right side of the frame, level the image, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression at default levels, use Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to recover Highlight detail, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight as well as shadow detail, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated to cover and slightly darken the pavement, slightly increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase Vibrance, adjust colour balance by sampling a white portion of section stripped of paint on a door, apply sharpening (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to increase the yellow channel brightness and also the yellow channel saturation to get it to better match the tonality of the pink wall, sharpen, save, scale to 6000 px wide, sharpen, 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.

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Frozen Sumac, Welland Canal East Spit by JW Vraets

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Looking back on some images taken on a very cold winter day in January 2015, I chose one of the old, digitally-dusty frames to process as it had been neglected for far too long. In Port Dalhousie (technically, the Regional City of St Catharines, Ontario), the Welland Canal entrance from Lake Ontario offers protection to ships making the transit via a pair of piers that extend out into the lake some 1000 metres. On the East side of the East pier, a man-made spit has been made from materials dredged during both canal construction and the periodic maintenance operations. Toward the far extent of the spit, sumac has established itself, albeit in a somewhat stunted form due to the constant winds off Lake Ontario. In the winter, those same wind deposit fine mist from the lake on the sumac branches and occasional seals in snow from a recent snowfall, as seen here. I spent time time out here freezing various appendages as I crawled around with tripod and camera to capture the scene on this day. - JW

Date Taken: 2015–01-30

Date PP: 2025-01-29

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Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24m lense set to 12mm, ISO100, AutoWB, Auto exposure mode, f/8.0, 1/400 sec with an EV+1.00 Exposure Bias to compensate for the snow. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: turn Input Sharpening OFF, set final image size to be 9000 px wide, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool to darken the sky a bit, set Exposure Compensation to EV+0.20 to slightly brighten overall, use the Tone Curve 2 tool in Parametric mode to slightly brighten the Lights (eg. foreground snow) and also very slightly darken the Highlights to retain detail, very slightly increase Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, very slightly boost vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: to tone down a bit if an excessive cyan cast to the lake water (particularly on the left) use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to decrease the Cyan channel saturation, slightly increase overall contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.

Weathered Barn, Near Devil's Punchbowl by JW Vraets

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Taken over 11 years ago, I had this image on a hard drive and when I came across it again, I decided to try and process it as a monochrome/B&W image. This is the result. As for the location of this weathered barn, this was taken in Hamilton, Ontario near to the Devil’s Punchbowl in winter of 2013. I liked the textures and the shapes. - JW

Date Taken: 2013-02-19

Date PP: 2024-07-14

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Taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 35mm, ISO200, Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/500 sec with and EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP In RAWTherapee from Nikon JPEG source file (I did not shoot RAW/NEF back then, sadly): scale image to 8000px wide, level the image, convert to B&W, apply atone Mapping at default levels, boost contrast in L-A-B mode, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated and shifted to cover the foreground snow and then darken that area to recover snow texture/detail, use Shadows/Highlights to further recover the lightest areas and also recover some shadow detail under the eaves, brighten overall by setting Exposure Compensation to EV+0.37, sharpen (edges only) save. PP in GIMP: use the Levels tool in Auto mode to get a good base tonal range and then pull both the white input point as well as the mid-tone input point t the left to brighten the ‘whites’ further, slightly boost contrast and brightness, fine tune the brightest areas using the Curves tool, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 wide high for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.

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