Comments: moon and distillery

a real fascinating shot!!

Posted by @ngelo at December 22, 2005 03:54 AM

A pure wonder !

Posted by Yannick BOSSEZ at December 22, 2005 04:26 AM

brilliant. I love the clouds and the moon.

Posted by Gabor Kovacs at December 22, 2005 04:42 AM

What a wonderful shot!

Posted by guy at December 22, 2005 05:01 AM

Remarkable shot - it looks like a scene out of a movie or a computer game. Also love the urban textures

Posted by AndyM at December 22, 2005 05:07 AM

yet another sin city-esque masterpiece. very nice. i'm very impressed with the stillness of the shot. i love the ghost train effect. that is a train right?

Posted by rich at December 22, 2005 05:44 AM

This is great to have been handheld at 1/3s!! Sounds like some of the tricks I do so I don't have to carry my tripod all the time :)!

Posted by stephanie at December 22, 2005 06:00 AM

This one looks spooky. Great shot, especially with the moon up there!

Posted by tina at December 22, 2005 06:14 AM

wow, great shot, i love this one.
It reminds me of the one you took last year, you know, the batman one.....
Here, again, we're back in gottam city.

Thanks

Posted by nicolas at December 22, 2005 06:24 AM

Words fail me- that's an amazing photo, it really is...

Posted by Jo at December 22, 2005 06:29 AM

This one Sam, I think is one of your very best! Fabulous composition, great lighting, interesting topic, nice focus ... damn, what else can I say. Oh, ... the colourization, ... excellent! Definately "wall material".

Posted by Lynn R at December 22, 2005 06:32 AM

looks like a scene from sin city, nice capture sam!

Posted by ree at December 22, 2005 07:17 AM

looks just like a tomb raider screeshot.

merry christmas and thanks for the great pics.

Posted by bob mcdermott at December 22, 2005 07:24 AM

Beautiful ahot. great slow shutter speed on your hands...

Posted by Pooriya at December 22, 2005 07:28 AM

And I say again--you sir, are the master of the handheld shot.

As for the shot itself, I love the colors and the the light reflecting off the different textures, but I'm not sure how I feel about the bright moon being in there. A sort of video gamish feel to this one, much like your brickworks shots.

Posted by dan culberson at December 22, 2005 07:38 AM

Amazing! This photo feels very... I don't know... expectant?... to me. Very engaging. Thanks!

Posted by David at December 22, 2005 07:48 AM

steady hands, man! the 800iso helps, though. try holding the air in you stomach and not at all in your chest. you're even steadier that way. brrr, when i look at that moon and sky, i can feel the cold!

Posted by theo at December 22, 2005 08:06 AM

Very Noir look to it.
Take care-
Mark

Posted by Mark at December 22, 2005 08:10 AM

a very 'cool' shot... by all means...
daring to risk this shuttertime but the result is just awfull... the presence of the full moon is genious!

Posted by paul at December 22, 2005 08:27 AM

Did you add some sepia to this shot?

Posted by Bryan Doxtdator at December 22, 2005 08:42 AM

Great shot. I lived near the Distillery District in Toronto, and I know from experience it is a *wonderful* place to photograph. Don't think I got any shots so nice as yours, though :-)

Posted by A thinker at December 22, 2005 08:51 AM

Wow. It reminds me of some 1940's detective movie. I can almost hear some dark jazz playing in the background.

Great lighting and I love the composition.

Posted by s. zeilenga at December 22, 2005 09:09 AM

Why not use a tripod if you were worried about camera shake? Was it just that you did not have one, or was there some sort of artistic motivation?

By the way, as someone that has just taken up photography in the last year, I love your site. What I have learned from it is that the best way to keep growing and improving as a photographer is to get out there with the camera and take lots of pictures. Carry on!!!!

Posted by Barry Cox at December 22, 2005 09:26 AM

Great shot.. looks like a scene from a scary movie..

Posted by Rebecca at December 22, 2005 09:32 AM

Hello, Sam.
I have just found out about this site. I was looking for information about Toronto, through Google, and suddenly I saw myself admiring your wonderful Photos. I am from Brazil and I love photography, but I have never done any photo class ou course, so my photos are pretty basic. Your photos are absolutely dazzling (I hope I am using this word correctly!) I stayed until 3:00am seeing your photos...I just couldn't stop. I must admit that I have seen other sites of photographers, but yours really did it to me. I am definitely going to atend a photo class this year. Unfortunetly I think that only people with special eyes can take pictures like yours, so I think I have a lot of study ahead... Thanks for the magnificent photos! Renato, a new fan from Brazil!

Posted by Renato at December 22, 2005 09:50 AM

That's pretty damn steady!!!
I would've gotten nothing but a big brown blob at 1/3s handheld. haha Good Job, very nice shot

Posted by Paolo at December 22, 2005 10:20 AM

Beautiful shot, under any circumstances. Splendid composition and amazing range of greys.

Considering the shooting conditions, would this image be listed under "frozen assets"?

Posted by Ron at December 22, 2005 10:22 AM

Very noir, very french in 40s or 50s and very narative. The distillery series of photos are very narative and they are always telling stories.
This one is one of the bests.

Posted by SlicesOfLife at December 22, 2005 10:30 AM

gotham city, batman :)

Posted by shhane j montgomery at December 22, 2005 11:17 AM

Sam,
Told you so.
Francine

Posted by Francine at December 22, 2005 11:17 AM

Sam, Sam, Sam,
Such a picture. You did it again. I'm shocked, gobsmacked, speechless.
"Is this a picture with a set scene, lots of projectors and lightings, directed and designated to come out like this?
Oh, shut up Payam, it isn't. It's another Sam's picture."
I can't understand why should I miss you for twenty odd years? Can you answer it?

Posted by Payam at December 22, 2005 12:12 PM

I'm amazed at how you handheld this shot with such a slow shutter speed!

Posted by Joe at December 22, 2005 12:51 PM

great shot, looks like the drain cover's about
to pop-up slowly and.....you get the idea.

Posted by Mark Ellis. UK at December 22, 2005 01:19 PM

impressive. at first i did not like it. when i came back again, it looked great, and reminds me of some scene out of a movie.

Posted by Jesse at December 22, 2005 01:22 PM

Very impressive Sam. I do have one complaint with the photo, and it's something I'm having a problem with as well. I want my moons to look like moons, not white blobs. even if it means taking 2 shots and photoshopping them together. Does anyone have any tips for getting a good moon shot at night?

-Jerry

Posted by Jerry Aulenbach at December 22, 2005 02:14 PM

Sam, you've got the steadiest hands in the world!

Whenever I see your shutter speeds listed at 1/3 sec. or so, I wonder if you're reading the camera notation correctly.
It's not 1/30 sec?

I always get blurrs at anything less than 1/15.

Great photo, as always!

Posted by George Dunbar at December 22, 2005 02:28 PM

such a strange shot! but where was it's lonley cowboy?!!

Posted by minitto at December 22, 2005 03:59 PM

I love this shot. It looks like something out of a film noir.

Posted by Rob at December 22, 2005 04:49 PM

what a brilliant photo. Despite the cold and high iso standard.

Posted by marco from Vorden(holland) at December 22, 2005 05:31 PM

Jerry: You want the moon to look like this one -
http://photo.nofilmrequired.com/index.php?showimage=57

Sam: I love this photo. It is just amazing.

Thank you very much.

RustyJ

PS Hope you don't mind me putting a link to another blog here.

Posted by RustyJ at December 22, 2005 05:56 PM

Nothing will stop you. Not even harsh weather. 3 seconds is quite a long time to hold your breath. Very impressive as always.

Posted by Phil at December 22, 2005 07:28 PM

GREAT PICTURE...PLease a small tutorial at least, let us now how to do it.

Thanks, and please let me know.

Posted by Ramiro Sabatini at December 22, 2005 08:51 PM

Great!

Looks like you brightened up the area with the moon - it's very effective and makes the whole, especially with that sewer grate foreground. It's another perfect set for a movie of any sort. The third man mystery style or Alfred Hitchcock.

I conclude that having the digital adjust-until-you-get-the-image-you-want capacity, is one huge advantage over film. Which makes missing shots due to some tech imbalance factor an almost never if not never. I'm a tad jealous of that missing factor for me at the moment.

Very eye grabbing and imagination stimulating for the mystery it does evoke.

Posted by Hugh Petrie at December 22, 2005 09:05 PM

Oh! I hadn't read the footnote on the image before my previous comments. Leaning on a wall,or post is one of the many tricks of camera technique to get steady images with slow shutters. That and brace your elbows on your hips or whatever and camera tight to the face. I often laugh at the techniques these days with people holding the digital out in space where it's guaranteed to shake. But lens stabilizers have been changing the photo world.

Posted by Hugh Petrie at December 22, 2005 09:09 PM

looks spooky and surreal.. the moon and the rear building look almost as if it were a background canvas on a movie set.

Great shot.. thanks

Posted by Rahul Kumar at December 22, 2005 09:41 PM

Sam,

My comment is not about todays picture, which is an extraordinary image by the way, but I just wanted to thank you for yet another year of wonderful images. Your site is an inspiration and a delight for me. The thing I love best is not getting to visit for a few days and then finding a few new images to look at. The visit to this site is one of the high points of my day. Your vision and style is something that provides me, and as you can see from the posts here, many others, with a great deal of plaesure.

Thank you Sam. Have a great Xmas and a wonderful new year mate.

Mick.
Newcastle, Australia.

Posted by Mick at December 22, 2005 10:42 PM

Beautiful...

Posted by Samantha at December 22, 2005 11:41 PM

I really love this picture. Only one suggestion--next time shoot another one exposed way down, so the moon is not overexposed, then paste that moon onto this moon. The burned out moon is disturbing to me. This is a small niggle--I love your shots of the Distillery District, and if I ever get to Toronto (in planning for years) I will definitely go there.

Posted by John at December 22, 2005 11:42 PM

Thanks for the moon tip, Rusty.

Posted by Jerry Aulenbach at December 23, 2005 12:40 AM

Jerry you are very welcome. It was a pleasure for me to able to point your lense in the right direction. Sourena did take a great picture of that moon.

It is also a pleasure for me to thank Sam for sharing is 'sight'.

Merry Christmas to you Sam and thank you very much.

RustyJ

Posted by RustyJ at December 23, 2005 12:39 PM

Lovely ... absolutely stunning. What a great eye!

Posted by Abe at December 23, 2005 05:51 PM

well done dude! what a steady shot

Posted by neowenyang at December 24, 2005 12:00 PM

This is beautiful! It's so perfect it looks fake. Amazing capture. Keep up the great work!

Posted by Christopher Webb at December 24, 2005 01:13 PM

No words! The most amazing pic of the year! Congratulations! You are the best!

Posted by Maxine at December 24, 2005 01:35 PM

Brilliant Sam couldn’t be any better on 1/3sec. And I must say that the low noise level on this shot and also on the Limo and Deli picture is impressive.

Posted by Kamyar at December 26, 2005 06:29 AM

creepy. it almost doesn't look real, you know? like it's out of a movie or an animation. and it would definitely be a horror movie tinged with the fantastical. i'm fully expecting a howling werewolf, aren't you people?

Posted by raluca istrate at December 26, 2005 03:26 PM

Great shot! I like the sepia look =) The sky is wonderful... how many shots did it take standing up against the wall.

Posted by SmileTO at December 29, 2005 05:05 AM

looks like a frame out of a film noir movie.

Posted by rosh at December 29, 2005 03:26 PM

very impresive

Posted by butcher at March 8, 2006 04:19 PM

Awesome photo. You have the knack for seeing the potential in a shot. Of all your photos that I've seen today, this one really pulled me in for some reason.

Posted by Frank at August 6, 2006 12:23 PM
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