November 6 2012
It still seems rather early to be photographing Christmas tree lights, but since they have now erected the annual festive decoration at Place Ville Marie and turned the lights on, I was keen to see what varied shots I could pull off.
The Place Ville Marie Christmas tree has been an annual tradition since 1962 when PVM first opened its doors. Made in New York, the tree stands 63 feet high, 26 feet in diameter at the base and is decorated with 13,000 lights…glad I’m not the one having to untangle that lot and find the faulty bulb preventing all the lights from working.
Avenue McGill College from PVM
ISO 100 – 140mm – f4.8 – 1/10 sec
PVM Christmas tree lights from McGill University
ISO 800 – 135mm – f4.8 – 1/60 sec
Christmas Tree at Place Ville Marie
ISO 500 – 20mm – f5.6 – 1/15 sec
PVM Christmas tree
ISO 800 – 20mm – f5.6 – 1/60 sec
PVM Christmas tree lights
ISO 800 – 14mm – f4.8 – 1/8 sec
PVM Christmas Tree lights with Bokeh
ISO 100 – 180mm – f9.5 – 0.5 sec
PVM Christmas Tree lights with Bokeh
ISO 100 – 300mm – f5.6 – 1/30 sec
Pulled zoom shot of PVM christmas lights
ISO 100 – varied mm – f9.5 – 0.5 sec
PVM Christmas tree
ISO 100 – 70mm – f4.5 – 0.7 sec
Artsy PVM Christmas tree
ISO 100 – 75mm – f4.5 – 1/3 sec
Feminine Landscape sculpture fountain
ISO 2000 – 280mm – f5.6 – 1/45 sec
PVM Christmas tree
ISO 250 – 11mm – f5.6 – 1/10 sec
Something I wanted to try was shooting upward from inside the tree. I didn’t see any security around (I guess if they were, I would have been quickly told to leave), so I managed to grab a few shots laying on my back in the center of the tree.
Inside the PVM Christmas tree
ISO 1000 – 20mm – f5.6 – 1/60 sec
Inside the PVM Christmas tree
ISO 1000 – 10mm – f4 – 1/90 sec
Inside the PVM Christmas tree
ISO 125 – 10mm – f5.6 – 1/6 sec
I’m now waiting for a big snow storm when I will re-visit for some more pics and a more festive looking scene.
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Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.
– Martin
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6 Comments
Reblogged this on hipstographerphotography and commented:
Love the use of lights!
Thanks for the reblog Allen 🙂
Oh my-how beautiful
Thank you Elyse, will be even more so when we have snow 😉
these look really good – I think the council spent about £10 on ours this year – not a patch on Montreal’s!
Well I guess after 50 years, this ‘tree’ (well a few large metal rings, some heavy duty cable and a lot of lights) has pretty much paid for itself now 😉