New Toronto Is Sinking

[Doady]

All photos taken on June 22, 2023.

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[Murphy de la Sucre]

How's that?sinking

[Coldrsx]

Playing off a Hip song.

Nice shots and a few vague memories of some of that from past visits.

[Rooted Arborial]

Were you thinking the area might look better if you decided to use a fish-eye lens because distorting the area can help it escape itself?

As far as I can tell this could be a neighborhood in numerous rust-belt smaller cities. That's not a bad thing, but the distortion feels desperate.

As it is, the yarn shop seemed the most promising image.

[Doady]

You must be new here if you think I try to make places look good and help people "escape" from them. Here are some examples of my past photo threads:

Toronto & The Gardiner: A Shocking Portrait of Canada's Car-Crazed Culture
Mississauga's Heartland (Town Centre)
The North American Moscow
Sarnia: Chemical Valley

If I really wanted to make this neighbourhood look as good as possible I probably would haven't taken these photos late at night on garbage day. It is one of most beautiful waterfront neighbourhoods in the Toronto area, but I have no personal connection to it (this was the first time I have stepped foot in Toronto in over 3 years).

Why a fisheye lens? Because this one is a very bright f/1.8 which allows me to handhold the camera and freeze motion at night, which is important for street photography, which often involves candid portraits of people. And normally I would use a tripod and f/8.0 at blur the traffic and give lights a starburst for a surreal effect at night, and I figured fisheye can still be surreal at f/1.8. Ultra-wide lens also has large depth-of-field, even at f/1.8, which helps for street photography, which requires very fast reaction. Wider angle also allows me to get closer to people and make them feel more at ease with my presence, and sometimes they even talk to me (such as the guys in photo #10).

Ultra-wide angle lenses aren't the way to make a city look better. It exaggerates the size of the roads. It exaggerates the empty space between the buildings. I have used this technique many times in past threads, including some of examples posted above.

[Architype]

Great stuff. I'll bet you are also a fan of Edward Hopper.

[Evo5Boise]

Originally Posted by Doady

All photos taken on June 22, 2023.

[center]

Fun tour. Tell me more about this Corrado. This your car or just a random car on the street? You don't see many of those out in the wild anymore.

[Doady]

No, no, just some random car. Somehow it caught my attention even though I am not a car enthusiast. I am banned from driving so I had to take the bus and it took me a whopping 90 minutes to get here. Buses in the suburbs are way overcrowded now, so the second bus was really, really late, even though it was way past rush hour.

Originally Posted by Architype

Great stuff. I'll bet you are also a fan of Edward Hopper.

Ha, I google him and somehow I recognize some of those paintings. In another thread, someone mentioned Lewis Baltz, I google him, and now I am a Lewis Baltz fan.

I used to be on another forum Urban Toronto and they just ignored my photo threads, and openly dismissive or hostile a few times. You guys have always been much nicer, it makes enduring that 90 minute bus ride worth it.

[mrnyc]

wait, nightshots AND a fisheyed lens?

its a doady thread heaven.

i can feel these.

so good.

we are truly living in epic times.

you dont have to explain yourself doady.

those of us who know, know.

[Doady]

Oh stop you're making me blush, Mr. NYC. But I can understand if others need me to explain. Even I am confused about this lens sometimes. Like a couple months ago there was Doors Open in Toronto, and this lens is perfect for interiors, and I never get to photograph interiors. But by the time I thought of it, it was already the last day of Doors Open, and I live way, way out in Mississauga, too late. So dumb, my brain still stuck in lockdown.

[geomorph]

Originally Posted by Doady

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This shop has more rainbows than a pride parade!