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Project 365 – Day 307: Place d’Armes at dusk

By Montreal in Pictures | Published November 2, 2012

November 2 2012

Another wet day here in Montreal

My plan had been to try shooting the 500 candle installation outside the Mont Royal Metro Station, but since it rained again all day I assumed it would have once again been cancelled, so instead, I headed down to Place d’Armes to get some early evening shots.

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 10mm – f4 – 1/8 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 13mm – f13 – 1.5 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 16mm – f9.5 – 1 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

The new large benches that the City installed in the square during the recent renovation were still covered in rain drops and I thought it would be interesting to include them in a few shots.

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 10mm – f13 = 1 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 10mm – f9.5 – 0.7 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Place d’Armes at dusk
ISO 100 – 15mm – f5 – 1/3 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Hoping the sun returns soon.

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Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

- Martin

Posted in 365 Project, Location | Also tagged Aldred Building, Bank of Montreal, HDR, Maisonneuve monument, Notre Dame Basilica, Old Montreal, Place d'Armes, rain, Tone Mapping Comments Off

Project 365 – Day 110: Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna floats into Montreal

By Montreal in Pictures | Published April 19, 2012

April 19 2012

I went out on a limb today to try something different. It wasn’t that long ago that I came across some cool sci-fi looking images of buildings floating in the air resembling giant spaceships and I thought I had to try it one day….well that day ended up being today.

Since tonight was opening night for Cirque du Soleil’s new touring show Amaluna here in Montreal, I thought of trying the mirror effect on the big top.

Cirque du Soleil Big Top floats into Montreal

Once I had it in my head that I would try this effect, it was a little bizarre walking around looking at buildings and trying to imagine them reflected. Having not really studied what was involved on the processing side I was working very much by chance that my shots would actually end up being usable.

Floating Montreal skyline

Jacques Cartier Bridge Skeleton

Complex Desjardins Insect

Something I realized after processing a few was that you really need isolated buildings for the floating effect.

Floating Apartments

New York Life and Aldred buildings take flight

With all these spaceship like buildings floating around, I wasn’t that surprised to come across a space lagged Jedi sleeping it off by the Palais des Congrès.

A Jedi?

Zeppelin

Although I wasn’t able to separate the top part from adjoining buildings I really like how this last one came out, particularly the traffic lights resembling glowing red eyes.

Glowing eyes

Since I was pretty much only shooting with this effect in mind, if the shots hadn’t worked out I would have likely been screwed for posting my pic of the day. As it turned out I was reasonably happy with my first attempts and already have some other places in mind to shoot for this technique.

I imagine people either love or hate this effect. I have to say I kind of dig it, the process is pretty simple and really puts buildings and objects in a new perspective. I would love to know what you think – Like or hate?

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