July 5 2012
First off, I was very honored to have been freshly pressed today – it was nice knowing the sand sculptures got a lot more views in their limited life as a result 🙂 So welcome new followers to this little corner of the web and a daily visual tour of Montreal. For those who are not local, I hope you will come to love Montreal as much as I have over the last 13 years and, if you have the opportunity, come visit the taste of Europe in North America in person soon.
Today I was thinking of either catching a couple of sets down at the Jazz fest, or go watch the film U-571 which is showing at the old port on an outdoor screen. The free outdoor cinema (Horaire de Ciné-Maritime) will be showing maritime genre films (Jaws, Das Boot) each Thursday night until 23rd August – although I’ve seen them all at least once before 🙁
I ended up doing neither. Instead during a late afternoon walk around the Plateau I decided to photograph some of the colorful doors, windows, staircases and balconies along avenue Laval (my favorite street on Le Plateau) and avenue Henri Julien.
The image of the day actually was an accident. While taking a handheld 3 exposure HDR, during the final long exposure I moved the camera before the shutter closed, resulting in a misty effect and some strange diagonal flaring. I processed it nevertheless and actually quite liked the result 🙂
Misty stairs on Le Plateau
ISO 100 – 70mm – f4.5 – 1/3 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Back to the more standard (but all HDR) shots of doors, stairs, windows and balconies on Laval and Henri-Julien streets.
Doorway on Le Plateau
ISO 100 – 24mm – f5.6 – 1/25 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Doorway on Le Plateau
ISO 100 – 75mm – f6.3 – 1/40 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Overgrown red door
ISO 400 – 70mm – f5.6 – 1/80 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
White on Purple
ISO 100 – 18mm – f5.6 – 1/15 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Door on Le Plateau
ISO 100 – 28mm – f5.6 – 1/25sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
In need of some paint
ISO 100 – 40mm – f5.6 – 1/10 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
The blue window
ISO 100 – 24mm – f6.3 – 1/8 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Green curtain
ISO 100 – 105mm – f6.3 – 1/50 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
Balcony for 2
ISO 100 – 75mm – f6.3 – 1/13 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
The green house
ISO 100 – 34mm – f6.3 – 1/20 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)
The funny thing that happened. While I was out shooting a guy came over to talk to me and pulled out a post card of Le Plateau with pictures of homes and doors and wanted to know where he could find them. Luckily I had just shot one of them so could tell him exactly (for one at least). Perhaps I should consider organizing photo walks for tourists 😉
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Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.
Martin
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16 Comments
Gorgeous!
Thank you joidevivre74 🙂
I love the overgrown red door. Seeing Montreal thru your camera lense is really great. I’ve now seen things I didn’t know existed. Thank you.
Thanks Lucie…I want to revisit the red door as when processing I noticed the nice door knob and dripping black paint and want to get a close-up shot. Hope to find lots more hidden gems 😉
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Some great Montreal Doors
A legion of door whores…I will have to check that out ;- There are so many great doors in Montreal, I think I will be doing a few more posts in the future dedicated to them. Thanks for the share.
great, cheerful set – love it 🙂
Thank you Alessandro…It was a little overcast today, but seeing all these colorful doors brightened up my day 🙂
colortherapy! 😉
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This is my home city and these are fabulous shots – had to share.
Thank you for the share…I really need to get over and check out these door whores, sounds like I may fit in 😉
…. except now I see Adrian got to it first – like I said, great doors!
I love doors. Thanks!
I really must take more door shots 😉 Thanks for stopping by.
i’ll be in Montreal this August and that photo tour sounds nice! =P
Well let me know if you need some ideas on where to go, what to see 🙂 I’m sure you will love it here !!