Having been hit by two major ice storms in as many weeks, I was a little tired of the resulting mess. I realize here in Grimsby, Ontario we are prone to the occasional such storm, but two in two weeks? Really? That got me to wondering why. Is it climate change causing more erratic weather patterns. Or is it this, the output of a big horn sheep in the sky as suggested by this Dodge Truck Big Horn model logo. You just don’t know any more. And, as usual, the tail light makes this Red Rule shot. - JW
Date Taken: 2019-02-07
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Olympus OM-D EM-5 (MK1) fitted with an Olympus M Zuiko 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens set to 34mm, Auto WB, ISO320 (Auto ISO), Intelligent Auto mode, f/5.4, 1/60 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Olympus RAW/ORF source file: rotate image to set the right edge of the tail light to vertical, set exposure to EV-0.45 (a bit darker than as-shot), perform some tone curve adjustments to Tone Curve 2 using the Parametric model and use this to darken the highlights as well as the darks slightly, also pull down the Tone Curve 1 top end to bring the highlights into a more displayable range, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlight detail, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: adjust the tone curve to slightly darken the bottom 1/3 of the tonal range to get a bit deeper ‘blacks’ while still preserving detail, select only the red tail light and darken it further while not impacting the rest of the image and also slightly boost the red-channel-only saturation to clean up the tail light colour, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image down to 2048px vertical, sharpen slightly, save.
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