Toronto Ïce Condominiums at York Centre | 234.07m | 67s | Lanterra | a—A

[ushahid]

It's a cable from a crane. The photo has been stitched together from multiple photos or exposures while the crane was moving, so it looks a bit odd.

thanks for the information friend. I thought it was something like oil squirting out of somewhere.

 

[Razz]

More crane shots....Nov. 27, 2013

 

[ushahid]

nice shots,
but
why its so dark, with no lights Toronto looks like ghost city.

 

[Ryan_T]

The same reason there are no stars in space photos. Dynamic range.

 

[khris]

nice shots,
but
why its so dark, with no lights Toronto looks like ghost city.

The focus is on the foreground, with light behind it, it makes the foreground appear darker than it actually was.

 

[wmedia]

Ryan is correct. The dynamic range of the human eye would be able to see the wide range of luminance between the overpowering sky and the dimmer building lights, however the dynamic range of a camera (and the encoding format) is considerably less.

You have to expose your limited range with some compromise. Here the detail in the buildings is lost due to the compromise of correctly capturing the sky. If he's exposed for the buildings, he'd blow out the sky.

Think of it like setting the volume level when recording sound (on a 16bit or less system). If you want to capture very quiet sounds, you risk distorting the loud ones. If you want to capture the loud sounds, you might not hear the quiet ones.

This is why 24bit sound recorders are better than 16bit.
This is why 12bit (per channel) camera formats are better than 8bit.

 

[sub-URBAN]

Pretty soon they'll be starting the Swiss cheese roof on the second tower. Amazing amount of progress here.

 

[wmedia]

Crane is coming down on the south/west tower today.

 

[interchange42]

Hmm, I was hoping for a little dynamic range on that.

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[wmedia]

Hmm, I was hoping for a little dynamic range on that.

My "dynamic range" got rapidly compressed due to the cold weather!

 

[Ryan_T]

Hmm, I was hoping for a little dynamic range on that.

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You can fake it by doing HDR.

HDR was originally intended to overcome this physical tech limitation, not to make rainbow coloured landscapes.

 

[CITY_LOVER]

My "dynamic range" got rapidly compressed due to the cold weather!

How big is your range otherwise?

 

[adHominem]

How big is your range otherwise?

Boys, boys, it's not the focal length, it's the aperture control that counts.

...that may not make any sense. How many entendres are we up to? That's more than double.

 

[wmedia]

haha. I'll try and dodge the question, and just post a photo. The tower crane is now gone. I noticed there are some forms still on the roof. I assume the derrick will remove them? I've not seen that before.

 

[Parkdalian]

Nice photo! The cheese is also looking good from University and Dundas.