This is another image from a recent wander through the old downtown of Fort Erie, Ontario, On the side of an empty commercial building (formerly a store of some type it seems) is a bright red metal stair case (hence, Red Rule). Set against the brick wall and accented by the green eavestrough downspout and the deep, late afternoon shadows, made for a nice abstract composition. - JW
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Date Taken: 2019-08-10
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 34mm, ISO100 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Aperture priority, f/4.5, 1/800 sec with an EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final size to 9000px wide, square up the brick wall by using the perspective correction tools, crop a little off the bottom and left (maintaining the aspect ratio), slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlights a bit, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the tone curve tool to slightly brighten the top 1/3 of the curve, hold the mid-tones at default and slightly darken the bottom ΒΌ of the curve, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048 for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
