Man With Rucksack, Hamilton - a photo on Flickriver

As the three of the four Bando de Kvar (www.flickr.com/groups/2472126@N24/ ) members (Where’s Paul?, #wherespaul) strolled around downtown Hamilton, Ontario in the late afternoon light, we were keeping an eye out for potential subjects for a little street photography. I spotted this gentleman across King Street in front of Jackson Square. He was wearing a large rucksack and with the somewhat grizzled appearance, the hat, cigarette, trash receptacle and all, this seemed a good subject.

As for people who are curious about the sharpness of the AF-P DX Nikkor 70-300mm, let me assure you it is sharp, wide open as can be seen here. It is sharper at the long end than my old AF-S Nikkor 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 VR, much sharper. Hence I no longer own the AF-S version. My version is the non-VR one so no image stabilization came into play and it was all down to keeping the shutter speed up and letting higher ISO take care of the consequences. Better a sharp somewhat grainy image than an unsharp but grainless one. - JW

Date Taken: 2018-07-29

Tech Details:

Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF-P DX Nikkor 70-300mm (non-VR) lense set to 300mm, ISO1600 (Auto ISO), Shutter priority mode, f/6.3 (wide open), 1/500 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image to produce a final size of 9000vertical set exposure compensation to EV+1.25 brighter than as-shot, convert to black-and-white and decrease the green and red channel gamma to get a suitable base tonal range, enable Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool and rotate it to cover the lower portion of the frame and then adjust it to darken the area covered by the sidewalk and better balance its tonality with the man, slightly increase contrast in L-A-B mode, apply a bit of Luminance noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust the tone curve to brighten the mid point section slightly and also darken the bottom (approx) 10%, duplicate the image to a new layer and add a black/transparent mask on which the man’s face is painted in using a soft-edged brush with white paint, adjust the tone curve of the man’s face on the new layer, use the dodge-burn tool with a small soft-edged brush to dodge/brighten the lighter areas of the man’s eye, duplicate the image to a new layer and add a black/transparent layer mask on which a soft-edged paintbrush with white paint is used to paint in the entire man and the trash receptacle and then sharpen those areas without sharpening and enhancing noise in the background, save, scale image to 6000 high, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, and finally scale to 2048 high for posting. - JW

Taken in: Canada / Ontario / Hamilton / Central (show map)

Taken on: July 29, 2018

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Camera: Nikon D7100, f/6.3, 1/500 sec, 300mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7100
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	+0.33 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Light Source:	Unknown (Unknown)
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	GIMP 2.8.22
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