Notre-Dame vertical panoramic stitch
Hope you enjoyed this week’s visit to the stunningly beautiful Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal. Here is a collection of my favorite shots from this tour:
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Tour la Nuit
Once a year just around sunset approximately 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) of Montreal streets are blocked off from automobile traffic. As night falls on Montreal thousands of cyclists from the very young to very old mount their trusty two-wheeled steeds and take to those closed streets for an evening of pure magic. It’s the Tour la Nuit.
Tour la Nuit
Night is falling. No tripod. Not even a monopod. Cyclists are whizzing by with no means for me to photograph the event. Or was there? At Ursula’s insistence (and her assurances that the cyclists whizzing by would look great) I decided to get creative by switching my Canon G1 X to “Handheld NightScene” mode. In Handheld NightScene the Canon takes three pictures in rapid succession, then combines those images in-camera to produce a single image with low noise and good resolution. If I held the camera very still, that would have the effect of giving me reasonably solid backgrounds while creating a flowing effect with the bikers. In other words the triple shots would combine images of stationary objects, but anything that moved (such as the cyclists) would appear in three locations spaced at intervals of up to several feet depending on the speed at which they were traveling.
Tour la Nuit
I was a bit apprehensive at first, until I reviewed the shots and found that I liked the effect. Here are some more examples:
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It’s that time of year again. Fireworks. The day we as a nation celebrate the anniversary of my wedding to Ursula.
Oh, and, yeah . . . there’s that Independence Day celebration thingy going on today as well.
So, want to learn how to take photographs of fireworks? Something along the lines of this?
Or, perhaps, these?
It’s really quite easy with a tripod and a little planning. Some of these shots were taken with a Canon G1 X. Others with a Canon EOS 5D. For tips on taking shots such as this with a DSLR, a tripod, and a remote shutter release read the following tips I gave way back in 2011:
4th of July Fireworks Part II (and How I Did Them)
On the other hand, if you don’t have all that fancy equipment (the subject may be different, but the techniques still apply to long-exposure fireworks) then improvise using some of the tips I gave in:
Available Light Photography without a Tripod
Then go out and take some shots such as these:
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