For my choice of assignment / theme, I chose to do architecture, specifically that of Old Montreal. While I was away on a trip to a storytelling convention and then up in Montreal and Toronto to visit universities, I had about one day to shoot pictures while staying in Old Montreal. This consisted of a couple hours aimlessly wandering around this part of the city and taking in all the beautiful old architecture. This turned out some pretty interesting pictures, especially with a focus on the windows and upper parts of the buildings, mostly shot from below on the sidewalk. I feel like most of these pictures successfully captured the complexity of these buildings, and I edited them in a mixture of black-and-white and slightly desaturated photos, to draw one's eyes away from the colours to focus on the details of the buildings themselves. One of my pictures in particular that turned out surprisingly well was the middle photo in the top row, due to its use of negative space and black-and-white. Originally, the bright blue of the sky was overbearing and distracting, but in b&w it brings focus to the building without it having to be in the centre of the photo (rule of thirds!). Other techniques I found myself using were actually similar to the macro leaves project, in cropping closely to the subject. This can be seen in the first and third pictures, where I cropped the edges of the building(s) out to focus on the windows. Overall, I chose these six pictures to represent the theme because they felt connected together, like they belonged in a set, due to their focus on windows and the top edges of buildings. I feel like I was successful in representing the style of some of the old architecture while still having the pictures be connected together with more than just being pictures of Montreal. The two pictures below represent other favourites I had from the trip, but I felt that they didn't connect as well with the other pictures as a whole, so they're just tacked on at the end as a little extra.
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