Station 1 Staff Member With Red & Black Hair

This is another image captured during the most recent gathering when the three available members of the Bando de Kvar (www.flickr.com/groups/2472126@N24/ ) convened one of their all-too-infrequent meetings at a local coffee bar/restaurant, Station One, in Grimsby Ontario, and proceeded to solve the worlds problems. As I went up to the counter to order another round of beverages for the boys (to sustain us in our endeavours), I was served by a woman sporting a striking red and black colour scheme (and thus making this another Red Rule image). A bit of conversation including a compliment on her ‘look’ and she happily consented to letting me get a photo of her – Thank You.

This is an image under very poor light and a challenging image to PP to get a good/reasonable result that is fairly true to my impression at the time. - JW

Date Taken: 2024-11-10
Date PP: 2024-11-13

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Tech Details:

Taken using hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 38mm, ISO6400 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/80 sec with an EV-0.33 exposure bias. Note: Since this was shot at ISO6400, noise in PP is an issue but the in-camera Nikon noise treatment was better than I could get from RAWTherapee so I opted to work with the SOOC JPEG file, use GIMP and forget about any sharpening or any image adjustment of any kind, except as noted. Also, the mixed lighting was a royal pain in the nether regions and mad getting colour balance and saturation a frustrating exercise. However ... PP in free Open Source GIMP: scale image to 9000px high (for future use), lots of fiddling around trying to get a reasonable look to the skin tones including adjustments to localized face saturation reduction and using a separate layer mask to integrate it back into the main image, then tweaking overall contrast a little, and a lot of fiddling to fine tune the result, save, scale image to 6000px high, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000px high for posting online, save.

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

Taken on: November 10, 2024

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/4.0, 1/80 sec, 38mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	38mm
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	-1/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.38
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