Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Details:

What: Graffiti Alley Photography Walk
When: Wednesday. Apr 07, 2010
Time: 5:30PM
Where: TD Canada Trust bank on Spadina Ave & Queen. Google street view map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 4,,0,-0.35

Bring: Any camera & lens

What it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WaeQqsGUrM

Plan: We'll walk through Graffiti Alley and the surrounding area for an hour or so, taking pictures of everything and anything we see.

As usual, we'll finish our photo walk with a stop for coffee and/or food.

Showers t'rrow. Changed date to Wednesday.

That place usually takes more than an hour, depending on weather conditions of course Should be quicker on weekday though

ahh shoot can't make it Wednesday. hopefully it'll rain Wednesday for a resched on Thursday enjoy folks!

I might be able to come, but I'll be there at 6:30.

Cool, the walk will still be in progress I think.

I'll probably be there for a long time might bring a wireless flash too

Haven't you heard? It is closed for repaving!

Just kidding... since that is my neighbourhood I will try to drop by, but I have to leave around 6:00 so I will miss Dmitrijs' wireless flash.

Sounds interesting. I think I might drop by

PM me if anyone needs my mobile #.

Chance of rain, so might be a good idea to bring along a light rain coat.

Oh just noticed this, I live on king/peter. I'm in!

Nice! Will be great to see ya.

5 attendees: not bad for a rainy day! That wuz fun, eh? The rain brought out the colours of the Graffiti. Looking forward to seeing how everyone's shots turned out! Thx to all who turned up: I had fun. Cheers.

Oh...I so wanted to go...but thanks for posting the youtube link and directions...I think I will definately be going later this week (hopefully when it's not raining)

Thank you Sabesh ...
It was a great ....love the food, specially the chat after
Captured some cool graffiti not sure were it will fit ..but learned a new form of art ...
Cheers
Yeshwanth

Thanks Sabesh for planning this. Usually landscape or urban architecture is not my cup of tea but I had fun today!! Got some nice shots but like Yeshwanth I'm not really sure where it will fit. Plus I need to get myself a wide-angle lens

Sorry I missed it but with the damp weather and the fact that I had to be somewhere else by 6:30, it just was not happening.

If you are heading back again let me know. Here is one from a few years ago. I need to go back some day and shoot that one over in better light with a wider lens.

Great outing, the water definitely made the colours pop. Wish I could have stayed longer but I had a squash match. Really great to meet you guys. Thanks Sabesh!

Man In Action






Cheers

Anytime! It's worth the trip, for sure. There were a few others taking photographs as well, so it appears to be popular.


The food was great! The chat was too funny LOL, funny shot of yours truly getting up close & personal with the wall Good shots mate!


Anytime! Thx for coming, I enjoyed everyone's company and had a blast. WA lenses are sooo much fun, most definitely.


Very cool pics Bart! Did you blue gel the first one? Thx.

Thanks Sabesh! Yeah, blue gel sb-800 camera right (-1EV) and bare sb-900 camera left (-3EV) for a bit of fill. I went back after squash to try to take some car photo's in that area but I didn't get anything I really liked. I need more speedlights.. and maybe a few pocket wizards

I went the punchy colour route My set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabesh/set ... 7401/show/

Some samples (click on pics for access to larger images and EXIF info):

Excellent pictures guys Sabesh, I think the punchy color route really works for graffiti art. Makes it grungy and edgy I'm still going through post processing of my photos.

Thx Alvin! Looking forward to your pics bud.

Nice shots Sabesh .. punchy definitely works.

Thx James, I'm glad that you liked the pics. Cheers.

Here's one of mine:

I went for a high contrast gritty look, increasing the details in the brickwork and as well as punching up the colors.



Will post more slowly.

Very nice Alvin. You actually preserved the colour of the bricks, as I remember it. Well done!

haha... thanks I just start photography like 4 months ago, so I might not be as technical/skilled as you guys. Anyway, what I usually do is ramp up the saturation to give it a bit more eye-catching colors. So I'm happy that you think it's close to the actual colors as I have no idea whether it is

Here's another one of my other pictures. I have other pictures posted on my facebook but it's not as highly processed as this ones are.

you can get Yongnuo wireless system, very reliable and much cheaper than PW