Yesterday and today, as is now tradition, the girlfriend and I are playing The Colonists!
And yeah, it's spread over two days with breaks between eras. If you've played, you know what I mean.
#boardgames at home in #montreal
In this case, I strongly prefer the monochrome version and found initial the colour versions using any of Fuji’s profiles to be substantially worse. So, I sat down and did a bit of thinking and came up with the approach I used in the third version. #montreal #photos #photography 4/6
A second colour version where the blue has been toned down.
A colour version of the same. The yellow autumn colours and the reflected blue colours clash.
A black and white photograph of a group of people talking in the rain under umbrellas. Looks like a still from a film noir movie.
I had a similar problem with this winter scene from Parc Jarry. I LOVED the black and white version, personally, but most people I tested it on preferred the colour version, which I didn’t like. So I came up with a third version that accomplished much of the same as the black and white, but in colour. #montreal #photos #photography 5/6
That same photo in colour except with the blue toned down.
That same photo of the family except in colour. The sunset is bright yellow. The shadows are bright blue. The shapes in the picture are less distinct
A family looks out on the sun setting over a frozen pond in the park. It is in black and white which makes the shadows and shapes obvious
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The second set of examples pretty much have to be in colour, OTOH, as the colours do a lot of heavy lifting in conveying the story #montreal #photos #photography 3/6
The autumn colours in the park look neatly divided into three groups. A woman stands in the distance between the trees
A very chonky cat stands outside a store in Montréal
A green chair has been left to rot under a bridge in Montréal
The sun sets behind a birthday party in Parc Jarry. People are having fun among the trees
In this case, I strongly prefer the monochrome version and found initial the colour versions using any of Fuji’s profiles to be substantially worse. So, I sat down and did a bit of thinking and came up with the approach I used in the third version. #montreal #photos #photography 4/6
A second colour version where the blue has been toned down.
A colour version of the same. The yellow autumn colours and the reflected blue colours clash.
A black and white photograph of a group of people talking in the rain under umbrellas. Looks like a still from a film noir movie.
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One of the things I’m trying to figure out with my impromptu photography retrospective over the past few days is a better understanding of how I can deal with colour. I’ve been trying to figure out when colour is necessary, when it adds, and when it detracts, how best to use it. 1/6
The first example has to be in black and white, because the whole point of the colouring of many animals is to break up the shape and make them a bit harder to spot. A few of the photos I’ve been posting lately have been in black and white for similar reasons #montreal #photos #photography 2/6
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The first example has to be in black and white, because the whole point of the colouring of many animals is to break up the shape and make them a bit harder to spot. A few of the photos I’ve been posting lately have been in black and white for similar reasons #montreal #photos #photography 2/6
The second set of examples pretty much have to be in colour, OTOH, as the colours do a lot of heavy lifting in conveying the story #montreal #photos #photography 3/6
The autumn colours in the park look neatly divided into three groups. A woman stands in the distance between the trees
A very chonky cat stands outside a store in Montréal
A green chair has been left to rot under a bridge in Montréal
The sun sets behind a birthday party in Parc Jarry. People are having fun among the trees
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Continuing with my Montréal era, here are three photos from Parc Jarry, spring, summer, and autumn. The photo of the bloodied gull is one of my personal favourites. The gull had tried to snack on a duckling and all of the duck mamas ganged up and it was lucky to get away with its life #montreal #photos #photography
Autumn. An assortment of people are living life in the park
Summer. A motion-blurred photo of a bloodied gull flying in a park
Spring. The sun is setting behind people in the park
I’ve reached my Montréal years in my impromptu photography retrospective (2016-2019). 2019 was the year where, for a variety of reasons, I knew I wasn’t going to be living there for much longer. These are mostly from Parc Jarry and the Jean Talon market. #montreal #photos #photography
It’s spring and a duck walks along the bed of a dried up pond. This is the photo that lead long-time followers on Twitter to ‘intervene’ and say that I was such a horrible photographer that it compromised their experience of my writing
The park is covered with snow. In the distance a person is walking in between two trees.
Trees and benches cast long shadows in Parc Jarry
Glass soda bottles behind bars in a closed stall at the Jean Talon market.
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The new mayor of #Montreal has begun a Doug-Ford style ‘retraction’ of bike lanes so now Ville-Marie borough has decided to modify the temporary Atateken bike lane to restore a 40% chunk of parking spaces
