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Project 365 – Day 324: Avenue du Parc and some light painting experiments

By Montreal in Pictures | Published November 19, 2012

November 19 2012

I took a walk up avenue du Parc late this afternoon, originally with the idea of shooting a couple of locations, but both were closed and not looking at their best. So I improvised and just grabbed a couple of shots along the way.

Hotel Plateau Royale on ave du Parc
ISO 1000 – 45mm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec

Mile End Library on ave du Parc
ISO 1000 – 26mm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec

Grocery on ave du Parc
ISO 500 – 10mm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec

Café Starbucks on ave du Parc
ISO 1000 – 52mm – f5 1/10 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Did you spot the addition of the word Café in the logo on the above photo?

Starbucks add the word Café to their signage at locations across Québec to comply with the provincial language law. A number of other large International brands (Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Gap, Old Navy and Guess) are taking the Quebec government to court over the provincial language watchdog’s insistence they modify their commercial brand names to include some French. According to Section 63 of Quebec’s French Language Charter, the name of a business must be in French, although to-date it hasn’t generally been applied to trademarked names. The retailers will present their case to the Superior Court this Thursday.

Vintage store on ave du Parc
ISO 1000 – 28mm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

With rush hour starting and the fact avenue du Parc has a lot of traffic signals, I thought a bokeh shot was justified.

Bokeh ave du Parc
ISO 1000 – 105mm – f5.6 – 1/10 sec

Following the bokeh attempt,I went a bit artsy and experimented with some long exposure light painting while walking back down du parc next to Parc Jeanne-Mance. I thought a few produced quite interesting results.

Light painting experiment
ISO 1000 – 18nmm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec

Light painting experiment
ISO 1000 – 18nmm – f4.8 – 1/3sec

Light painting experiment
ISO 1000 – 18mm – f3.5 – 1/3 sec

To view images in gallery format, simply click on one of the images below.

Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

- Martin

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Project 365 – Day 308: The Illuminated Crowd at night

By Montreal in Pictures | Published November 3, 2012

November 3 2012

I had planned to shoot the Place Ville Marie Christmas decoration which was erected at the end of last week, but they haven’t switched the lights on yet – so that’s one for next week

Not knowing where else to go, I headed back up McGill College avenue.

Although I photographed The Illuminated Crowd sculpture by British artist Raymond Mason back in March, I’ve never photographed it at night.

I’d noticed on Friday that they had put up the Christmas lights in the trees on avenue McGill College next to the sculpture outside the BNP Paribas building and so it seemed like a good reason and timing to shoot the sculpture again.

The Illuminated Crowd at night
ISO 100 – 50mm – f5 – 3 sec

This next angle was almost a direct repeat of the photo of the day I posted in March, but really liked how it came out at night with the windows lit in the office towering above.