Introduction:
After the last weekend’s retreat I ended up catching a cold and was too sick to work on photos. I’m finally better and had the chance to pull off a couple late night photo editing sessions and here are the results! We traveled to downtown Toronto through the TTC and walked around Union Station and the busy streets of the Financial District. Once again I was assisted by a great friend and fellow photographer Chi Yan. Thanks again Chi for all your support! It was another busy, challenging, and rewarding shoot … we even crossed paths with an elephant! YIKES!

Technique:
I am running out of useful tips to give other photographers as most of my “secrets” are already spread out along this blog … but let’s talk more about how I got the last photo in this series. Notice the couple are sharp between the bicyclists arms while most of the other people are nice human blurs. To do this I set my camera to the lowest ISO possible and stopped down my aperture until I was left with a nice slow shutter speed to blur out all the action. I held still enough that the IS of the lens kicked in and kept the non-moving objects relatively sharp. I love all the interesting things happening in this photo (blurry bicyclists, TTC bus drivers, guys crossing the street, and the people staring at the couple on the side of the street) and would love to say I planned everything but …. this was all unplanned! Take lots of photos and go through all of them to find the ones with the most interesting elements in them.

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