I went shooting tonight at the Desjardins Canal. It’s an interesting place. Four large bridges cross it at various angles and levels, and there’s a long staircase that winds up the valley of the canal to York Boulevard, so there are quite a few interesting angles. It was dark, and mostly deserted, so it was kind of a freaky place to be hanging out, especially with an extremely conspicuous and expensive-looking camera. The place looked like a setting for a video game… one of those video games in which plenty of people die. Anyway, I got what I wanted as quickly as possible, which is not too quick with 30 second exposures. I’m not sure what I’ll do with these photos, but it was a fun adventure taking them anyway.
Here are my two favorites from tonight.
wow scary. im glad you’re both okay 🙂
the photos look gorgeous
I like the one on the left a lot…wicked light…a far cry from the very early one you did a while ago over the highway down by Van Wagner’s. You know, you now got me wanting to go down there at night to shoot … would give me a chance to try out the new remote 😉
You definitely should go down there and shoot. There are lots of opportunities. The light sucks though. It’s that orange streetlamp kind of light, and white balancing it creates all kinds of noise :S
I’m not liking the one on the left that much. I think the angle is a bit in the overkill side and it makes me feel like im falling off. It just doesnt work for me on this particular shot. I like the lines that it forms, but I’d love to see how it wouldve turned out upright in a landscape format.
That said…it has great potential for poster design with greay space for typography on the sidewalk and sky at the right.