Sun Cutting Through Fog, Beamers Falls

            Another forgotten image from the archives, taken in 2015 but never processed… 

This is another image from a mid-December day in 2015  when fog had blanketed Grimsby, Ontario in, predominantly, the area below the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and northward out to Lake Ontario some 1 km North.  But in the area near the gorge of the Forty Mile Creek (simply The Forty to locals), light breezes carried the fog into the woods atop the escarpment and into the Beamers Falls Conservation Area lands. The sun’s rays were trying to penetrate the fog and created this scene. - JW

Date Taken: 2015-12-14

Tech Details:

Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 18mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Aperture priority mode, f/10.0, 1/500 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px high, Enable the Graduated_Neutral-Density/GND tool and use it (rotated, shifted and feathering to cover the foreground rather than the sky and then brighten the foreground leaving the sky alone), enable Shadows/Highlights and recover a little of both highlights and a small amount of shadows, bring up a bit of Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost Vibrance a bit, sharpen, enable noise reduction, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to desaturate the blue channel and thereby restore the fog colour to a near-neutral tone, duplicate the image to a new layer and boost contrast of the sky and then add a white/opaque layer mask on which I painted black in the areas corresponding to the foreground only, create new working layer from visible result, use the dodge/burn tool to burn/darken the darks only in the tree trunk (centre-foreground), sharpen, save, scale to 6000 pixels high, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale to 2048 px high for posting.

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

Taken on: December 14, 2015

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Camera: Nikon D7100, f/10.0, 1/500 sec, 18mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7100
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	18mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-2 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	GIMP 2.10.12
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