Back in the Fall I visited downtown Port Dalhousie, Ontario (now simply a district in the regional city of St Catharines) to see how the redevelopment of the buildings in the historic district was progressing. The plan for the past several years has been, in essence, to replace the historic buildings with yet another bright, shiny and expensive high-rise condo development. But things progress slowly. Very slowly. Meanwhile, one building has already been demolished and a few of the colourful shops facing the old Welland Canal lock across the street stand empty (dare I say derelict?) pending the opportunity to ‘modernize’ the area. This shows one of these shops, the former Mackie’s Fresh Fudge at 28 Lakeport Road. The colourful, stiped facade harkens back to happier days. I continue to try and find scenes reminiscent of images immortalized in vintage 1950s/60s colour photography. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-10-13
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm 1:4.0 lense set to 38m, ISO160 (Auto ISO), Auto WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority mode, f/4.0, 1/320 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, level the image and correct perspective distortion, use exposure compensation to brighten the image by EV+0.29, apply Tone Mapping at default levels, boost Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, boost black level a bit, use Tone Curve 2 in parametric mode to darken the lights somewhat, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover highlights mainly to handle the chair fabric, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated to cover the bright concrete along the base of the image and darken somewhat and make its brightness less of a distraction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the levels tool to get a good basic tonality and colour balance, use the dodge-burn tool to further tone done the bright concrete strip in the bottom left of the frame, sharpen slightly, save, scale to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
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