Toronto Photo Walks: King Street

Good morning everyone. Well today begins another week, and Saturday was another photo walk. This was a little different, since we were going to do this at night. I took the subway down and tried my hand out on long exposures on the TTC Subway. Yes I did use a tripod....





We got to our meet up down at University and King st. west and waited for other people to arrive and kept an eye on the sky since the forecast was for rain. The walk was scheduled for 7:00 PM and sunset was at about 8:15 PM. So we had a little light to start with and get into our low light groove.




We started off by heading east and playing around in the financial district. Since I knew this area fairly well I took the lead for the group. Our fearless leader wanted to do this free form. Actually he had no time to plan a proper route so he was happy with any direction. The group was also a little smallish then normal. The threat of rain, and the lateness may have contributed to it.

Anyway one more series of shots then off for the day.




See you all tomorrow.

Toronto Light Saber Battle...

Well Saturday night was fun. One of those wacky flash mob type of things. A bunch of people getting together to do some fun stuff on the city streets. This time the destination was the Royal Ontario Museum. The north side by the Crystal expansion. Rather fitting actually for what was going on. It was a start time of 9 PM so I was there a little early. I got out of the subway station and it was starting to rain. I hoped that it wouldn't pour, and shortly the rain stopped. Just in time for people to arrive to get there weapons and prepare to show what good vs. evil is all about. Or the other way if you were on the dark side.




Some of my friends were there. Posing for pictures and getting wound up.






Remember the girl dressed up as the Ewok. She is going to be making a return later on.

I was messing with focus, exposure, and flash all night here's three pictures to show you why. I believe that as I go on through the week you will see why having that kind of control can be fun with cameras.