For those of you who actually pay attention to what I say (I like to pretend there’s many of you), I spoke in my last post about always having a plan B. Well, I thought it may be worthwhile to show you what my plan A was in the first place, since I never really discussed it. For all the times I’ve been back to Montreal, I don’t have a single skyline shot of the darn city, that is til recently. So my point in heading to Jean-Drapeau was to take aforementioned skyline picture of darn city.

The day had been mostly overcast, but something (my little pinky most likely) told it might just clear up enough for a really gorgeous something. Well, whatever it was, it LIED, cuz a sunset, there wasn’t. Not that this has stopped me before. I’ve learned fairly early that you’ve got to make the best of whatever situation you are facing. (By the way, if you’re having trouble following the flow of this post, don’t you worry, it’s me, not you ,no really).

Since sunset didn’t really happen, I thought I would at least take advantage of the fast moving clouds in the sky. So, I put on my ND400 (10 stop ND filter) and picked as long an exposure as I possibly could (the longest one that day turned out to be about 7 minutes). This particular one is around 4 minutes I believe.

Here, I didn’t use any ND filter as the light was diffuse enough, and I knew that my D700 could handle the whole dynamic range. I pushed the exposure by about 3/4 stop in the bottom portion to bring out the detail in the buildings, and that’s about it. Thank you Montreal!