St-Joseph

“Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, (French: Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal), is a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

A reliquary in the church museum contains Brother André’s heart, which he requested as a protection for the basilica. More than 2 million visitors and pilgrims visit the Oratory every year. It is located at 3800, Queen Mary Road, at Côte-des-Neiges (Côte-des-Neiges metro station).”

“L’oratoire Saint-Joseph se trouve à Montréal, sur le flanc nord-ouest du Mont Royal. Il domine la ville de son imposante silhouette. Il peut être vue de plusieurs endroits dans la ville et même en dehors de l’ile. C’est une basilique coiffée d’un dôme gigantesque, le plus grand au monde.

Inauguré en 1955, c’est un lieu de pèlerinage, le plus important dédié à Saint-Joseph à travers le monde. Il attire environ deux millions de visiteurs chaque année, provenant de toutes les parties du monde. C’est aussi la plus grande église du Canada. L’oratoire a fêté son 100e anniversaire en 2004.”

source : wikipedia

this shot was taken on a little trip to the oratory with my fellow photographer jasmin, this is from the main room at the top of the oratory, since the light wasn’t very strong inside, i used an exposure of 1/4 or 1/8sec at f/2,8 with some kodak 400 color

in photoshop, i worked on the pink reflections on the right side of the picture with a strong curve, i also used a cross-proccess curve at about 20%, i did the final touch with a strong high pass with an overlay at about 40%

le ventre de la bête II (vidéo)

also read : le ventre de la bête 

so this would be the follow up to my other post about my trip into the wellington tunnel, even if i was pleased with my first results, controleman asked me if i would go back in with him, you see, i developped my roll before he did, so i could see the result, some of my shots that you haven’t seen were, well under-exposed, way too dark, one of those dark shots was made with controleman expositon settings, when he saw the results he knew his shots were gonna be like mine, so, we went back, that night, i only did one shot, and i think it came pretty nice. here’s the shot:

canon ae-1
fd 24mm f/2.8 @ f/8 (i think)
i think the exposure was about 1min & a half or 2mins
kodak max color 400 iso

ok, i don’t know if i’m gonna like this or if i will ever do that again but, for the french people, here is a video podcast, i’ll try to include this to my main blog when i feel like it

please leave comments if you like or don’t like the video, thanks

mr. niccce’s funny shit

a good friend of mine and i just started a new blog called Mr. Niccce’s funny shit

the blog is just a platform for posting stupid random stuff we find on the web, it’s starting pretty well, i invite you to take a look at it and give me a feedback

american apparel

the velvia roll still wasn’t finished, so i finished it with some self-portraits, tried a couple of double and triple exposure, this is the last one i did, which was also the one i preferred, it is now my facebook profile picture.

le ventre de la bête

yesterday, controleman, jasmincormier and i went to the tunnel wellington, took a couple of shots inside, only one of them pleased me like this one.

this is a scan from a 50iso fujicolor velvia transparency, 1min exposure, f/2.8

then we went outside and i wanted to finish the roll, so i took a couple of shots of my fellow photographer

la vie est une platitude

…life is boring

actually, i don’t think it is but this shot, omg, look at those two, might as well put a bullet in they’re head (this blog doesn’t endorse suicide) haha

another scan from the fuji RVP velvia color transparencies 50 iso

il fait frette ce matin

on a very cold winter morning in Montréal, at the Sherbrooke subway exit

scan of a fuji RVP velvia color transparencies 50 iso

each day, i’ll post a shot or couple of shot from this roll, a couple came out pretty good

la neige que l’on voit danser

not very productive lately but hey, here’s a shot i did a month ago, but i only developped the negative today, here is the only good shot of this roll

snow on a windy day, on a rooftoop seen from above, scan from a fujicolor S-1600, converted as a “almost B&W” negative shot