Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Details:

What: Grave yard photos
When: Nov, 2009
Time: Daytime
Where: location of initial meetup. To be set up any suggestion
Bring: not necessary to include, but may be useful for members

Just thought about it now. I've seen some photos with tombs and monuments that is quite interesting. anyone wanna try this? Fall colour is interesting to as a background.

Can you please remove the line where it says "DELETE THIS LINE OF COURSE"? Just leaving it there so others know to remove it next time an adhoc is created.

LOL

Done. I didn't notice it when I wrote it. It only proves that I am a newbie in the forum!

Problem is many cemeteries are tightening up on photography, their land, their rules...Mt. Pleasant is rabid about it!

any other cemetery with a lax rules about photography?

With 1 to 3 people it's easy to shoot in cemeteries the trick is not to be obvious that your whole purpose of being there is to take photos. One time a grounds keeper in Mt. Pleasant told me I couldn't take photos of the monuments but the trees and nature was OK. This time of year loads of people take photos because of the fall colours on rare species of trees. I have heard that security may escort you off the property but they aren't around much.

My set many taken at Mt. Pleasant

http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_fee ... 489380619/

i like your set, very nice photos, and quite a grand cemetery.

there's a little cemetery up in steeles and airport road, small as in probably only 30 tombstones tops? no security, people can visit probably anytime at any hour. stumbled upon it while going to the camera show. there are also transmission lines in the area. here's a snap i took, there isn't that much there... you'll also have to park your car at one of the near by commercial buildings and walk over.

Here's the a topic on cemeteries in Toronto

http://tpmg.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12 ... t=cemetery

When it's wet or foggy my local the
Toronto Necropolis at 200 Winchester Street can be interesting.

I have had an interest in checking out Richview Memorial Cemetery.

Location, location, location.

cemeteries?

you all are brave.

There is one in the Yonge/401 area but the name escapes me. It is south of the 401 and east of Yonge up on a hill with a church right next door to it. There are many very old tombstones in it.

Do the residents come alive after midnight?

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_feet/113438895/" title="Moonlight by Metrix X, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/113438895_b726337695.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Moonlight"></a>

Wimp still ok at 11pm but there is one part of Mt. Pleasant that unusual things happen at least to me.

Exactly my fear, that's why, it will be a daytime shoot.

Prospect Cemetery is at St. Clair & Lansdowne.
I have never had a problem taking photogrpahs there
and as it is pretty narrow (but super long) it's pretty
obvious what you are doing.

Interesting. I was strolling around taking photos in Mt. Pleasant around 9am 2 Sundays ago and had no problem. I was always wary of being asked to stop, but was never approached by staff/grounds keepers. I left by 11:00ish.

Mt. Hope is not so bad. I have never been harassed by grounds crew or security there.

Care to share what happened to you?

Ghost stories are best shared around a camp fire.

Has anyone set anything up for this yet?

I wouldn't mind going on a shoot!

I am still up for it but still haven't decided which cemetery to go.
and I think it will be good to do this with minimal participants for obvious reasons.

Ghost stories give me the heebee jeebees.

Went and checked out the Necropolis. Not as good as my trip through Mount Pleasant last December, and I hardly saw anyone else there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofermod/se ... 865445749/

Did my best with the results -- my first time wearing out film canisters with bulk loaded film, so there's quite a bit of fogging
Ah well, shoot and learn!

Ofermod - Really nice set - thanks for sharing!