August 27 2012

With the forecasters predicting thunderstorms would be hitting Montreal this afternoon I decided to head over to Ile Sainte Hélène hoping that I may be able to catch some lightning bolts over the city skyline.

Unfortunately (for my plans anyway), the thunderstorm didn’t materialize, so I had to make do with a couple of HDR and some long exposure shots of the Saint Lawrence river and the Montréal  skyline beneath some fairly standard clouds.

Montreal Skyline long exposure
ISO 100 – 24mm – f16 – 53 secs

Montreal Skyline long exposure
ISO 100 – 21mm – f19 – 90 secs

A rare self-portrait…and one that lasted 36 seconds 😉

Montreal Skyline long exposure
ISO 100 – 18mm – f11 – 36 secs

Montreal Skyline HDR
ISO 100 – 24mm – f16 – 1/90 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Montreal Skyline HDR
ISO 100 – 24mm – f16 – 1/60 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Le Bateau Mouche tour boat
ISO 100 – 70mm – f4.5 – 1/750 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

A bird on a rock
ISO 100 – 300mm – f5.6 – 1/350 sec

I hadn’t planned on making it a lengthy outing but I’ve been wanting to try the interval timer feature on the Nikon 7000 to do some time-lapse and I thought the location and the cloud movement made for an ideal opportunity for a test run. I ended up shooting over 1,000 frames (mostly at 5 second intervals). I didn’t have a lot of time for editing (and a few sections really needed the scissor treatment), but I was quite happy for a first test.

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Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

– Martin

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