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Nuit Blanche, 2009, Toronto, Canada.
It was a perfect night. The air was not too cold, the sky was not too filled with clouds, they were just perfectly defined, and there was a fog setting in on the city. That, combined with the many art exhibits throughout Toronto (Such as this one; Beautiful Light : 4 LETTER WORD MACHINE), made for a very romantic setting…
There was a lot of photos to be taken, and this is just one of many!
The “4 LETTER WORD MACHINE” featured the four 7m square alphanumeric quartz lamp arrays, Suspended 65 metres in the air between the Viljo Revell-designed Toronto City Hall towers, which displayed codes, DNA sequences and elemental words. With each of the four “characters” consisting of 16 light segments, the machine was capable of displaying nearly 4.94 billion distinct graphic combinations, facilitating the expression of any word in any language. Automated code sequences were run between live performance times.
Shot Info : 10sec. , f13, 18mm, -0.05exp, ISO 200
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This photo was shot quite some time ago, on my Sony R1. I’ve just rediscovered it!
My old cat, Daphne was curious as to what I was doing.
It was raining. The rain dripping down the windows diffused the light perfectly. It was the perfect moment…. click!
The mood of this photo reminds me of the song “sleepwalk” as done by The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
I love the way the diffused light perfectly highlighted her and hid her at the same time.
I got to the celebrations, only to catch the end of the grande finale!
as I left, I found this family in the park setting off roman candles!
Notes : Semi-Handheld (resting on a fence), 2 seconds, f8, iso 200
The last two months, had been pretty hard on me, because of very significant changes in my life, and my photography had really seemed to suffer because of it….
But because of very special friends, I was able to overcome this, move past it and, in my mind, really find myself.
Danny was one of them. Him and I have been the best of friends since back in high school, when we played in punk-rock bands together. In the last few years, we started going separate ways. Our lives were taking different paths, but we had a bond, something that could never be broken….
I had been trying to get together and catch up with Danny for a while, and because of circumstances and situations, we kept missing each other. It was one weekend in June, where i was having a really hard time dealing with these incredible changes in my life, when i just decided to go downtown by myself on a whim…. When I got down there, I didn’t really have much to do, one thing i had planned last minute was to attend a protest for Iran and to shoot some photos there, but i mixed up the venues and ending up missing the event all together…
So i called up Danny, and by chance, he had no plans for the day and we decided to meet up.
Danny had recently moved to Toronto, in the Kensington district.
So he showed me around the area, and helped me find some cool shots. We spent most of the day together, we talked about many things in our lives, and it really helped me reconnect with myself, and find myself. In turn, I think it helped me really find my style as a photographer. It’s really hard for me express myself in words alot of the time, but i find, that with a camera, I can show the world exactly what im thinking and exactly what i see when i shoot something.
Note : The photo above was shot on the roof of Danny’s Kensington apartment. No major photoshopping, just minor adjustments in camera raw, then in cs4, i added a deep red filter, and converted to black and white, really boosting the clouds and darkening the sky to give an almost “IR” effect.
the look
Originally uploaded by Stéphane Lam
Just to add to my last post, here is a portrait i shot with the nifty fifty.
Shot at : 1/30 second, f2.8, -1 EV
