Faces Of Caribana 2016 – #387, Orange & Pink
Given this is a Throwback Thursday, and since I am on a roll revisiting these older images, and also that one of the most spectacular festivals of the summer held annually in Toronto, Ontario will not be happening this year (thank you very much Covid-19!!!), as an expression of my disappointment, I am posting an image from July 30, 2016. This from a series of images of participants in the 2016 Toronto Caribbean Carnival, more popularly known by its old name, Caribana. Some one million spectators came down to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds and lined Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto, Ontario for this annual event. Eye-popping colours, music you can’t ignore, and a wonderful, fun time for all and one of the world’s largest, friendliest parades of its type. When you are immersed in a sea of brilliant, in-your-face colour, the visual effect can be overwhelming. Hopefully July 2021 will once again offer us all an opportunity to celebrate together. Meanwhile enjoy a sample of that brilliant colour. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-07-30
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 VR lense set to 300, Auto WB, Manual mode, f/7.1, 1/1000 sec, ISO1250 (Auto ISO) with an EV+1.0 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 8000 px high, crop a little off the bottom and left side to get rid of a small intrusion bottom left, very slightly increase contrast in L-A-B mode, enable shadows-highlights and boost highlights to recover detail orange feathers, use Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to slightly darken the lights, slightly reduce vibrance (again to get better orange feathers), enable noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to reduce the green-channel-only colour saturation to get rid of a pesky green colour cast in the skin, sharpen slightly, save, use the doge-burn tool to dodge/brighten the whites of the dancer’s eyes, sharpen, save, scale to 6000 px high, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale to 2048 px high for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
Faces Of Caribana 2016 – #387, Orange & Pink
Given this is a Throwback Thursday, and since I am on a roll revisiting these older images, and also that one of the most spectacular festivals of the summer held annually in Toronto, Ontario will not be happening this year (thank you very much Covid-19!!!), as an expression of my disappointment, I am posting an image from July 30, 2016. This from a series of images of participants in the 2016 Toronto Caribbean Carnival, more popularly known by its old name, Caribana. Some one million spectators came down to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds and lined Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto, Ontario for this annual event. Eye-popping colours, music you can’t ignore, and a wonderful, fun time for all and one of the world’s largest, friendliest parades of its type. When you are immersed in a sea of brilliant, in-your-face colour, the visual effect can be overwhelming. Hopefully July 2021 will once again offer us all an opportunity to celebrate together. Meanwhile enjoy a sample of that brilliant colour. - JW
Date Taken: 2016-07-30
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4.5-5.6 VR lense set to 300, Auto WB, Manual mode, f/7.1, 1/1000 sec, ISO1250 (Auto ISO) with an EV+1.0 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 8000 px high, crop a little off the bottom and left side to get rid of a small intrusion bottom left, very slightly increase contrast in L-A-B mode, enable shadows-highlights and boost highlights to recover detail orange feathers, use Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to slightly darken the lights, slightly reduce vibrance (again to get better orange feathers), enable noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Hue-Saturation-Brightness tool to reduce the green-channel-only colour saturation to get rid of a pesky green colour cast in the skin, sharpen slightly, save, use the doge-burn tool to dodge/brighten the whites of the dancer’s eyes, sharpen, save, scale to 6000 px high, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale to 2048 px high for posting, sharpen slightly, save.