{"id":1889,"date":"2016-07-30T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2016-07-30T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:55:03","slug":"my-urban-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/my-urban-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"My urban walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-22L22-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;L&quot;\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-22L22-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-22L22.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-22L22-230x345.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1-22L22-350x525.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Once or twice a week, I combine my commute home with a few detours on Montreal streets. The neighbourhoods are filled with photo opportunities that are screaming to be discovered. To me it&#8217;s a kind of exercise that allows me to sharpen my photo vision and find interesting subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I issue a challenge: find color contrasts, shapes, patterns, etc. On other occasions, I just wander and let the environment dictate whatever comes to my eye (and opened mind!).<\/p>\n<p>On one of these photo walks, I had noticed the blue shutters. There was a window beside it (obviously!) and I didn&#8217;t want to give the impression I wanted to photograph the interior\u2026 While composing my image, I figured that if I closed in, I would have some sort of an &#8220;L&#8221; shape. I could have been the same with the shutters if the picture was flipped horizontally but I thought it had more impact this way.<\/p>\n<p>Once the photo taken, I corrected the perspective (and saturate the flat colors of the raw file) in post since there were distortions from being close to the wall, even at 50mm. I couldn&#8217;t back far enough since there were cars on the curb.<\/p>\n<p>All these difficulties added up to amount a form of photo training. It&#8217;s like golf that you practice regularly: the more you shoot, the more your photographic eye sharpens. Unlike golf, you don&#8217;t loose any balls\u2026 FORE !!! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once or twice a week, I combine my commute home with a few detours on Montreal streets. The neighbourhoods are filled with photo opportunities that are screaming to be discovered. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromoven.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}