Back to the Oratory for the last time this year

[jerryph]

It's been a long time since I went to St-Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, and I should go more often, though not just for the wonderful place that it is to take photos at. This time I went with my parents who did the walk through and we spent a little time together.

I also had the chance to take a few photos, but I challenged myself. First, all photos had to be taken at ISO 1600 (inside or outside), so I had to pay attention to nailing the exposure. Second was I wanted to practice my slow shutter/hand-held technique but without leaning my hands, body or camera on anything, it had to be standing, hand-held, breath control and see how slow I could get the shutter to go and still get crisp motion blur free photos.

This was perfect as the Oratory for the most part is a very dark location, and did challenge me. Several shots were at 1/60th, 1/50th but I few I nailed that were really interesting, like 1/40th at 135mm or a few at 1/15th and a couple at even... 1/10th of a second, which was pretty good, I thought.

I even ended up getting some nice shots as well.

For those interested in seeing the results, here is the link to the Flickr slideshow.

[mingkywingky]

Amazing shots Jerry! Very sharp, very good lighting, great composition, etc.
Thank you for sharing the pictures and the techniques Jerry (you always do). I've learned so much from you, and I'm grateful of that. Thank you Jerry.

Hope you have a wonderful New Year Jerry