Winter Sets In, Kelson Beach - a photo on Flickriver

This is Kelson Beach at the Western boundary of Grimsby, Ontario, on the South shore of Lake Ontario back in December 2012. Yesterday I posted a panorama format image of this area from higher up on the beach ( www.flickr.com/photos/jwvraets/52510610911/in/dateposted/ ) looking North toward Toronto a opposed to more-or-less West as in this frame. The point of land in the left background is Fifty Point, part of a conservation area by that name which is part of the Hamilton Conservation Authority property adjacent to Kelson Beach. Heavy winter ice and some tremendous storms a few years ago tore away the bulk of the beams making up the groynes and the area is less interesting (photographically at least) than it used to be. But prior to that loss, it was a well photographed spot (search Flickr for images tagged with Kelson Beach or Fifty Point) to see how this area looked in its hey-day. My original posting back in 2012 of a very similar image was processed as HDR, back when I was still enthralled with that technique. I wanted to do a more modern processing using what I now know and this is the result, which I feel is more natural. Also, it is quite sharp even on close inspection, which surprised me since it was taken using a Nikon D5000 and compares well with my current camera of choice’s (Nikon D800) results. Enjoy. - JW

Date Taken: 2012-12-28
Date Processed: 2022-11-20

(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets

Tech Details:

Original image taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24mm lense set to 12mm, ISP200 (base ISO), Auto WB, centre-weighted average exposure, Aperture priority mode, f/11.0, one of three frames originally intended to be used in producing an HDR image but only this frame is used here, 1/20 sec with exposure bias of EV+2.0. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon NEW/RAW source file: final image size set to 9000 px wide, Tone Mapping applied at strength slightly greater than default levels, Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool used to darken the sky, Shadows/Highlights tool used to recover highlight detail and also shadow detail recovered in the dark wooden beams, Contrast and Chromaticity slightly boosted in L-A-B mode, colour balance modified to get rid of a slight red cast, sharpen (edges only) save. PP in GIMP: Contrast boosted and overall brightness reduced, a copy of the image was made as anew layer and a black/transparent layer mask added after further darkening and contrast increases to sky and then using a white paint brush the sky was revealed along with the rest of the image from the layer below, added a non-destructive Dodge/Burn layer and then used it to brighten/dodge the ice and also locally darken the sky near the horizon, create new working layer from visible result, adjust colour balance to further reduce the residual red cast and also boost the blue channel to get a more neutral image, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen, add a fine black and white frame as well as a bar and text on the image left, save, scale image to 3000px for posting online, sharpen, save.

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

Taken on: December 28, 2012

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Camera: Nikon D5000, f/11.0, 1/20 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D5000
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal Length:	12mm (35mm equivalent: 18mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+2 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.30
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