Silo Controls, Moyer Road, Campden

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Silo Controls, Moyer Road, Campden
Silo Controls, Moyer Road, Campden

While out in the rural area South of Vineland, Ontario, I stopped by a farm on Moyer Road in Campden to see if I could get a few shots of a silo complex AI had seen there before. The galvanized, round silos have a set of controls related to storage and off-loading their contents. The combination of the silo patterns and the instrumentation interested me and the whole scene immediately struck me as a candidate for a monochrome/B&W treatment, as seen here. - JW

Date Taken: 2025-01-07
Date PP: 2025-01-07

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Tech Details:

Taken using tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8D lense, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority Mode, f/8.0, 1/50 sec with an EV+0.67 exposure bias to compensate for the bright metal silos. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source: Set final image size to 9000px wide, level the image, crop to a 16:10 format, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression at default levels, use Tone Curve 2 tool in Parametric mode to brighten the Shadows as well as darken both the Lights and Highlights, use Shadows/Highlights tool to recover some shadow detail, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool to darken the foreground snow a bit, use the Black level tool to slightly brighten the very darkest shadow areas and bring out some detail in those areas, apply a small amount of sharpening, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Levels tool in Auto mode to establish a good base tonality overall, use the Curves tool to slightly brighten the darkest areas a bit more, sharpen, save, scale to 7100 px wide, sharpen very slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3700 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.

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Taken on: January 7, 2025
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Camera: NIKON D800, f/8.0, 1/50 sec, 50mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: NIKON D800
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: +0.67 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: sRGB
Software: GIMP 2.10.38
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