Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 30 sec at f18 with a 24-70 at 67mm – ISO 100 + multiple flashes
This is my first time experimenting with a technique called “light painting”. I set-up my camera on a tripod and did a 30 second exposure. Armed with my 550ex speedlight flash in my hand, I moved around the ducks and shot a multitude of little burst of flash to light the part that I wanted. Because of the long exposure and the absence of ambient light, I could move freely inside the frame and not appears in the photo, as long as I was not staying at the same place too long.
Next time, I will bring more than one flash. The recycling time was a bummer. With two of them, I should be able to do better next time.
Those ducks are located on a bridge, separating it in two. My camera was less then a foot from the passing car. I’m a happy that no drunk driver passed by!
Drivers where probably wondering what a guy with bursts of light coming out of his hand was doing at night in the middle of a bridge!
Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/1250 at f1,4 with a 50mm prime lense – ISO 200
Saturday May 31, 2008. Fédération des femmes du Québec members take part in a protest in front of the National Assembly in Quebec city. Protesters demands included a minimum wage of $10.43, indexing social assistance payments to the cost of living, free prescriptions for low-income people and more money for feeding kids. Photo Francis Vachon for the Montreal Gazette
Saturday May 24, 2008. Daniel Casgrain puts his hand over his son Charles-Etienne’s shoulder at the funeral of Nancy Michaud, respectively their wife and mother, in Riviere-Ouelle, 150km North East of Quebec City. Michaud, politic aide of Quebec minister Claude Bechard, was abducted at her house and her body was discovered last Sunday. Photo Francis Vachon for the Montreal Gazette
Saturday May 24, 2008. A hands his put on Claude Bechard’ shoulder at the funeral of Nancy Michaud in Riviere-Ouelle, 150km North East of Quebec City. Michaud, politic aide of Quebec minister Claude Bechard, was abducted at her house and her body was discovered last Sunday. Photo Francis Vachon for the Montreal Gazette
A police investigator walks by an abandoned house where the body of Nancy Michaud was discovered Sunday May 18, 2008 in Riviere-Ouelle, Quebec. Quebec provincial police say they have arrested a man in the death of the political aide to a prominent provincial cabinet minister. Police, acting on a tip, found Nancy Michaud’s body Sunday afternoon in the basement of an abandoned home just a few kilometres from her own residence in Riviere-Ouelle, a small town 140 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Francis Vachon
Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/1600 at f5 with a 70-200 at 110mm – ISO 2000
