Sunbeam On Cattails, Grindstone Creek

            Taking advantage of a break in the seemingly perennial could cover, yesterday a fellow photographer and I headed out to Grindstone Creek in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario. While walking along the trail, the low sun had cut through some of the gloom by casting a narrow beam of light on a stand of cattails. The bright yellow of the reeds set against the rich blue of the shaded hill slope provided a nice colour contrast.  - JW

Date Taken: 2020-01-20

Tech Details:

Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4-5.6 lense set to 210mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Aperture priority, f/8.0, 1/100. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: reduce overall brightness by setting exposure compensation to EV-0.50, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated to cover a diagonal area covering the bottom right tangle of reeds and darken that area to make it less of an attraction to the eye, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight, increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase Vibrance, sharpening of edges only and then saved. PP in free Open Source GIMP: load the image as 2 layers, top layer for adjustment of the hill in the background and the bottom one for the cattails and foreground, add a black/transparent layer mask to the top/hill layer and paint in the hill using a large, soft brush and using white/opaque paint, use the tone curves tool to darken the hill and then increase its contrast, then on the bottom/cattail layer use the tone curve tool to brighten the top end of the curve a little and then also use the dodge/burn tool to brighten the highlights of the cattails and sunlit ice and snow, create new working layer from visible result, sharpened and saved, scale image to 6000px wide, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.

Taken in: Canada / Ontario / Bayview (show map)

Taken on: January 20, 2020

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/8.0, 1/100 sec, 210mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	210mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	GIMP 2.10.8
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