Cannabis Day - July 1st

While other people across the city and across the country celebrated Canada Day on July 1st there was something a bit different going on outside of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Thousands gathered here on this day to celebrate Cannabis Day and pot growers, sellers, smokers and just people out to check it out had a great time. The crowd was entertained by live performances as well as some great vibes from the DJ. People watching was high on the list of entertainment as well. Here are some shots from that day. I even ran into one of my former instructors Syx Langemann from Vancouver Photo Workshops out taking pictures too.

HDR - Served up RAW

Last night for my Intermediate Photography class that I am taking at Vancouver Photo Workshops we had a field trip out to the Vancouver Art Gallery were we attempted to capture some shots to later process into HDR photos. It was mostly a cloud free evening so the skies weren't as dramatic as they could have been but we did our best. Tried several different shots and also did some long exposure night shots as well. All of the shots taken were shot in RAW and processing them afterwards was very time consuming and took a lot longer than when I had tried doing HDR with jpegs. I guess this was the result of huge file sizes and amount of information in each RAW file.