I met up with another photographer a couple of evenings ago to do a bit of shooting over in the harbour area along Hamilton, Ontario’s South shore of Burlington Bay. As the dusk following a very nice sunset set in, and just before the sun dropped below the horizon, it was masked/filtered by a tin cloud layer. This produced a subtle sunset tint to one of the buildings in the area, the former Sarcoa Restaurant on Pier 8. I liked the architectural abstract forms created by the intersection of the rooflines along the West end of the building. – JW
Date Taken: 2018-05-28
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF-P Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-6.3 lense set to 250mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, 1/800 sec with an EV+0.3 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000x6000px, correct for slight corner vignetting, set exposure compensation to +0.87 stops brighter than as-shot, increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly boost Vibrance, in the Channel mixer tool reduce the red and green channel contributions slightly, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust the tone curve to get a good base tonality, fine tune colour balance by reducing red and magenta slightly, duplicate the image to a new top layer and add a black/transparent layer mask, use a soft-edged brush with white paint to paint in the sky area, adjust the tone curve on the top/sky layer to get better tonal separation without impacting the building tonality, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000×4000, sharpen slightly, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
