Entries from 'editorial travel photography'
Exploring Montreal: Quartier des Spectacles & Place Des Arts at the Blue Hour
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 8 s
- Focal Length: 22mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
Finally, winter is gone! Time to rejoice and go out and shoot and enjoy the nice weather shooting some architecture. Our stop for today is Place des Arts. Located in Downtown Montreal and inaugurated in 1963, Place des Arts is the central hub of the cultural life in Montreal and is home to the Montreal Symphony…
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Exploring Montreal: Winter Wonderland at Mont Royal Park
- Aperture: f/7.1
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/250 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
There is always something magical about winter in Montreal. And once in a while a curious phenomenon arises. After a few days of a mix of snow and rain, something enchanting happened. You woke up in the morning only to discover that the trees and streets are covered with a thick layer of snow. It’s so extraordinary…
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Exploring New York City: Stunning architecture with IAC Building by Frank Ghery
- Aperture: f/13
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 10 s
- Focal Length: 17mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
it’s always a pleasure when you can combine things that you love to photograph. As you probably know by now, I love New York City and I love contemporary architecture. And my favorite architects being Frank Ghery and Jean Nouvel, it was a pleasure to take a stroll in Chelsea and photograph one of the…
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Understanding Diptychs: When two is better than one
- Aperture: f/1.4
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter Speed: 1/50 s
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Camera: NIKON D700
So you’d like to start doing diptychs? Dipt-what?? What’s that? Let’s forget Google or Wikipedia for the history lesson and dip into the specifics. WHAT’S A DIPTYCH?!? A diptych is a subtle pairing of two photographs either side by side or one above the other with a specific relationship between them. Through analogies, associations, repetitions…
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Exploring New York City: Blue Hour on NYC Skyline from Gantry Plaza State Park, Long Island, Queens
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 13 s
- Focal Length: 38mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
I love New York! Every trip to this city is filled with excitement and an opportunity to discover new locations to photograph. So what was my excuse for being there this time? Well, rejoicing with some actors friends and attending the NYC Fotoworks portfolio review. As a professional photographer, one of the key element for success…
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Exploring Las Vegas: Frank Gehry’s Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 3 s
- Focal Length: 26mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
Located a few blocks away from the strip, the Cleveland clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is one landmark that can’t be missed when driving along West Bonneville Avenue. Its unusual facade is remarkable and very unusual like most of buildings designed by Frank Gehry. For those not familiar with the name, Frank Gehry is one of…
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Exploring New York City: A walk on The Highline Park with the Nikon D800, Chelsea, NYC
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1.6 s
- Focal Length: 26mm
- Camera: NIKON D800
On my last trip to NYC, while attending a portfolio review at the NYCFotoworks event, I had the pleasure to spend two evenings at the highline park located between the Garment district and Chelsea district in NYC. Built on an former elevated rail line above the streets of Manhattan, the park was founded in 1999…
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Weekly Facebook Cover Photo: Purple Hour on San Francisco Skyline
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Shutter Speed: 25 s
- Focal Length: 70mm
- Camera: NIKON D200
This week’s facebook cover photo brings us to the sunny state of California in San Francisco. Although the day had be quite hazy, dusk was still surprisingly spectacular with beautiful purple tones. The purple vein that we see going through the city is Market Street. We can also notice all the buildings of Downtown San Francisco and…
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Exploring Montreal: In the heart of the city, A new Jewel of Contemporary Architecture; the 2-22 building
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/2 s
- Focal Length: 24mm
- Camera: NIKON D700
Once known as the red light district in Montreal, the corner of Ste-Catherine and St-Laurent is now the home of the “quartier des spectacles” (or entertainment district). Within this square kilometer of the city, one can find over 80 cultural venues, including 30 performance halls with almost 28,000 seats. For this week’s blog topic of “Exploring…
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Weekly Facebook Cover Photo: Blue Hour on Mont Boron Skyline, Nice, France
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1 s
- Focal Length: 50mm
- Camera: NIKON D700
For this week’s facebook cover photo, we are travelling all the way to south of France, in the French Riviera to one of the sunniest cities of Europe, Nice. Nice is the fifth largest city of France and became part of the country definitively only in 1860. It was known as Nicaea oppidum as early as the first…
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