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12/12/2009 07:45:30 PM · #1

Welcome to Team Canada's Loonie Bin

This is something that was brought up during the Toronto GTG today; that we would like a place for Canadian DPCers to congregate, share photos and advice, post photos, and comment on others. If you post a photo, you can be sure that other Canadian DPCers will leave you a comment or two. So, if your from Canada, we'd love to see your photos. If you are passing through Canada, post away. If you are planning a trip to Canada, this is the place to arrange a meetup with some Canadians.

If you have any ideas for what you want out of this thread, let me know, and I will add it to this post.

Lets see your shots Canada!

ETA:
If anyone is on flickr, I created a group there called "Team Canada's Loonie Bin". Feel free to join it as well.

DPL Edit
Interested in a Team Canada DPL... check out post 71 and onward in this thread.

Message edited by author 2010-04-03 13:45:27.

chrisp

Tokina AF 11-16mm f/2.8 116 AT-X Pro DX for Nikon

12/12/2009 07:56:09 PM · #2

awsome idea! i will post an outtake (i know its an outtake already) for the rural decay challenge when i get my comp back from repair and i can stop using my ipod touch to surf the net.

Senay

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

12/12/2009 08:08:40 PM · #3

Sounds like a great idea! I'm from Windsor so there's urban decay everywhere but I've got exams this and next week so I don't have much time to shoot. Oh and it's freezing :)

basssman7

Nikon D500

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

12/12/2009 08:18:19 PM · #4

Thanks for starting our new home Brad! woohoo! Our own place on DPC. :)

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

12/12/2009 08:58:05 PM · #5

Yeah. Anyone got any images of the Torch Relay to post?

ralph

Nikon Z9

12/12/2009 10:05:05 PM · #6

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Yeah. Anyone got any images of the Torch Relay to post?

tomorrow at 7:30am 'ish they are two blocks away /dragging my kids out to cheer them on... will post pics ..
burrr..

12/12/2009 10:48:58 PM · #7

I will get the posting started... here is a shot of Nathan Phillips Square, taken during the Toronto GTG on December 12 2009. Thanks to

Shutter-For-Hire for organizing the GTG, and to him, and

david_c for lending me their tripods that evening.

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ralph

Nikon Z9

12/13/2009 08:45:58 AM · #8

my lens is still fogged / coming in from the cold a 1/2 hour ago..
I was surprised at the number of people lining the streets (at 7:30am on a Sunday ..)

12/13/2009 10:01:13 AM · #9

What's up eh????

I was totally WIPED OUT last night when I got home!

I crashed at around 7:30pm and didn't wake up till 9am this morning

I can't wait to see some of the shots from yesterday!!!

We have a huge ass christmas party at my house today so I might not get a chance to do any editing, but Definately i'll post some shots shortly =)

12/13/2009 10:28:58 AM · #10

It was great to put some faces & personalities to the usernames! A couple of quick-edits, I've got nearly 250 images to look through....

I showed up an hour late, missed the Timmy's meet-up, lost

jeger's phone number, and figured I was done for. A two-hour trip, and I was gonna be all alone in downtown Toronto. Something made my spidey-sense tingle, so I wandered over to City Hall, and sure enough...DPCers!

Looking up University Ave, trying to keep up with the Young Guns...

Shutter-For-Hire,

VitaminB,

jeger, and

wolf.

A group-self-portrait in the reflections of the ROM's new addition. I agree with everyone...it's OK on it's own, but ruins the aesthetic of the old-school architecture of the ROM.

from L to R: me,

Shutter-for-hire,

jeger and

basssman7.

Just one of the "WTF?!" moments we experienced on the GTG. As we were shooting some card of the ROM, this Dino-LochNess Monster mascot...or whatever the heck it was supposed-to-be...dressed up like Santa or Rudolph, but calling himself "Gordo" (probably short for Gordon, but simply "fat" in Spanish), came wobbling up to

jeger. I think he asked Jon for a quarter, but I can't be sure.

We headed down Queen St. W. towards "Graffiti Alley", we spotted this piece tucked in the nook of a building.

We all got some cool shots from that Graffiti Alley, but

drz01 must have the best shot on his card, by far...oh, Dave! Where is she, my man??

Last of the quick-edits...we were hanging out at Nathan Phillips Square as dusk fell...by this time, we had walked full-circle back to where we started, and my extremities were frozen. We were hoping to get the skaters whirling around the public ice like the faithful at the Kaaba, but I couldn't get it right. Maybe one of the better photogs has something on their card.

12/13/2009 11:36:21 AM · #11

Awesome shots David!!!!

I have 657 shots to go through =)

(remember, i'm Mr.Bracket so I have many extra shots of the same thing)

i'll post em soon =)

Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR

12/13/2009 12:27:47 PM · #12

Originally posted by Shutter-For-Hire:

i'll post em soon =)

Can't wait to see 'em, bracketmaster! :-)

drz01

Pentax K50

12/13/2009 12:36:51 PM · #13

Here she is.....

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jeger

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/13/2009 02:44:14 PM · #14

Here is the group photo from our get together.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/13/2009 03:52:52 PM · #15

Originally posted by drz01:

Here she is.....

Nice! That was a high point of the day...I'll try to write it up a bit later, gotta slip out for a minute.

jeger

Canon EOS-5D

12/13/2009 04:06:20 PM · #16

Originally posted by david_c:

I'll try to write it up a bit later, gotta slip out for a minute.

Gotta slip WHAT out??

jeger

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

12/13/2009 04:14:41 PM · #17

I didn't take many shots, but here a few quick edits.

Edit: to purge possible Free Study Entries

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12/13/2009 04:52:25 PM · #18

Originally posted by jeger:

I didn't take many shots, but here a few quick edits.

Edit: to purge possible Free Study Entries

What???? No shots of slippy the squirrel?

12/13/2009 09:43:30 PM · #19

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12/13/2009 10:49:32 PM · #20

Originally posted by jeger:

Gotta slip WHAT out??

Ahhh...that's better. w00t!

OK, so...we were down to 6, and headed over to graffiti alley, an alley where the property owners either disregard or actually encourage graffiti artists to paint the walls. We went through the first block, and decided to make a quick detour around a construction site, to the continuation of GA. We pop around this corner...and smack dab in to the middle of a photoshoot. There's a photog (let's call him The Kid), his model and two assistants...one of whom is kind of struggling with a huge Cameron reflector. He's got no lights up, he's trying to work with the available light and the reflector, so we say what's up? Turns out his power pack for his AlienBee wasn't working...probably had something to do with the cold weather.

Fortune smiled on him...I was carrying my Lastolite 24" ezybox hotshoe. I popped it open, tossed him my CyberSync for his hotshoe, and we proceeded to blast 30 frames or so.

drz01 sidled up next to The Kid and looked like he was trying to manually sync his shutter (lol!) to the flash fires...and judging from the frame he posted up above, he did a credible job. We did the handshakes all around, we tell him about DPC, he tells us about his networking site...so I looked him up. Nice work, Kid...

12/13/2009 10:52:35 PM · #21

Hey everyone!

i'm just tagging all the good ones... I'll be posting them tonight... there will probably be somewhere between 30-50 shots... depending how picky i get, i might filter it down to about 10...

they should be posted by tomorrow morning =)

12/13/2009 11:03:04 PM · #22

Originally posted by jeger:

I didn't take many shots, but here a few quick edits.

Dude, I'm in awe. Those are simply amazing. Edited to take out your Free Study possibilities? Damn, you must have a FS Ribbon coming up!

12/13/2009 11:03:32 PM · #23

Originally posted by Shutter-For-Hire:

they should be posted by tomorrow morning =)

Slacker.

:-P

12/13/2009 11:52:10 PM · #24

Originally posted by david_c:

Originally posted by Shutter-For-Hire:
they should be posted by tomorrow morning =)

Slacker.

:-P

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hahahaha, ok got my urban decay shot in... now I can work on the others... =)

i'll start posting them one-by-one as I finish em'

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