Frozen Feeder Stream, Grindstone Creek

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Frozen Feeder Stream, Grindstone Creek
Frozen Feeder Stream, Grindstone Creek

Taking advantage of a break in the seemingly perennial cloud cover, the other day 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, I spotted a small feeder stream leading out into Grindstone Creek. The small stream’s edges were frozen into a jagged border while some running water had developed a nice pattern of ripples as it passed over the stones on the bottom. A nice study in blue. - 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, 1/20 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: crop off a section of the left side to get rid of some distracting brush intrusions, reduce overall brightness slightly by setting exposure compensation to EV-0.15, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlight detail and slightly boost shadow brightness, slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, shift overall colour balance a bit to the warmer/yellow end, slightly increase Vibrance, sharpening of edges only and then saved. PP in free Open Source GIMP: clone out some remaining bits of twigs projecting into the left side of the frame, slightly reduce the cyan channel saturation, use the dodge/burn tool to brighten the highlights of the in some of the ice points projecting into the stream centre, 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.

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Taken on: January 20, 2020
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Camera: Nikon D800, f/8.0, 1/20 sec, 210mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D800
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 0.05 sec (1/20)
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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