Montreal Walk #289

The weather is sunny and warm again, so time for another Montreal walkabout, this time in the old part of the city.

Convention centre

Chateau Ramsey and statue of Drapeau

Chinatown

Spot the very bad word

Notre Dame Cathedral

This refers to the statue below. Not sure I get it.

City Hall

Next to Notre Dame Cathedral

Convention centre

Mistakes Can Actually Work Out (Or, Pretend You Meant to Do That)

After I transferred my photos from camera to laptop a while ago, I noticed something odd about them. Many of them were over-exposed, while just as many were under-exposed.

Huh.

After much fiddling and confusion on my part, I finally figured out that I inadvertently pressed the "bracket" (Auto Bracket) button. This means the camera is assuming you will take three shots in a row of the same subject, and each one will go from light to dark, and then you're supposed to go to photoshop and blend them together for an HDR type photo.

But I didn't do that, I just went on my merry way, snapping anything that took my fancy in the park up on our mountain. So some shots looked bleached out and others looked vivid and other worldly.

But once I got over my panic of not knowing what I did (and I fixed it) I kind of liked the shots. Note that these were taken within minutes of each other in almost the same spot.

There is beauty in everything

Even garbage, piled up against a wall. 

Outside Station Lucien L'Allier Metro

Montreal Walk