For those of
you use to following us, you are already aware that we produce
fine-art Photography, specifically urban fine-art & architecture.
We produce fine-art material for a few reasons the first being the
necessity to improve our techniques and increase our experience, the
second being for promotional objectives and the 3rd reason
being to renew our fine-art purchase gallery.
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In today's
Blog, we showcase our newest fine-art works. Our first Photographer
selected the Victoria Bridge in Montreal has the subject. The 150
year old structure and 115 year old steel strut structure looked
fantastic in the setting sun and frozen Saint-Laurent river. Needless
to say, Eric has carefully chosen the place and time for the shoot as
it is quite obvious in the images. Contre-jour photography is one of
his technical specialties, and keeping in mind some conceptual
objectives, he set out to make the bridge look a little surreal in
the ice and snow
Eric. It was
important to me that I make the Bridge the essential element of the
series even though I have chosen many general landscape shots that
include the structure for the Montréal Métro publication http://convozine.com/montrealmetro/37394. The point
of interest was the iconic structure and I more or less knew what
perspective and ambiance I wanted. To my great surprise and delight,
the river in front of my point of view was frozen and covered in
snow, a blessing. As for technical settings I have insisted on
overexposure on a lot of shots to wrap the bridge in a vaporous halo
for ambiance purposes. Other shots have been accordingly exposed to
create post card like styles. However, I have had to correct exposure
on almost all frames from -0.30 to -1.00 in Raw editing because of
incorrect metering from my eyes on the spot. Staring in the sun all
afternoon will do that to you. Sometimes its best to trust the
camera's metering capabilities a little more. Also other Photoshop
interventions, although minimal, contributed to the concept mostly in
the contrasts and clarity slides. I never modify the raws more than
slightly unless I want to save a frame from a poor manual setting.
Only the best possible settings on the spot can get you the desired
effects. As well, I have applied my usual white balance tricks in
camera during the shoot, adjusting on a few images in post production
editing
We sell our
best fine-art prints through our fineartamerica gallery ; we like
their satisfaction guaranteed policy and we only send them our
highest quality files. We appreciate the extra income from this
commercial operation; it keeps our artistic projects going by helping
out with financing of equipment and shooting days.
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