Toronto Photo Essay: Skyline Fusions
"Looking out for lurking lions" (Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania on Toronto skyline)
Photos and writing by guest contributor Robert Stirrett.
In 1995 I visited the Toronto Islands for the first time. It was late June and I quickly fell in love with its natural beauty, inspirational mood, and dramatic view of the Toronto skyline. I am simply amazed that more Torontonians don't take advantage of this world class urban island retreat.
That day, I took a shot of a swan with the skyline as a background. When I developed the roll, I did a simple cut and paste to create an enhanced image.
My beach shots from around the world added to the diversity of my efforts and with Niagara so close, my PhotoFusion concept was born.
Continue reading for more Toronto skyline meets South Africa, Mexico, California, and more PhotoFusion works...
South African beach in Port Edward
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Niagara River-Rainbow International Bridge
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Acapulco
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Santa Monica Beach
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Scarborough Beaches Boardwalk
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Atlantic City Boardwalk
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Ontario nude beach
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Penninsula Lakes Golf Club, Font Hill
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Check out many more of Robert's Toronto (and Detroit) skyline fusion photos.
Toronto Photo Essays are visual, themed collections of photographs submitted by readers of blogTO and members of the blogTO Flickr Pool. We appreciate the interactive, collaborative nature of this column, and encourage readers to submit photo essays for future consideration.
Comments (14)
These are so strange yet intriguing. Were these cut and pasted digitally, or were prints cut and pasted together (it's not clear from the description)?
very interesting!
I like the Port Edward one in South Africa!
My guess is that they were prints cut and pasted. Good question :)
I simply razor cut along the shoreline, tape the two shots together and scan. I clean the join line up with a Microsoft program and sometimes use the flickr one to juice up the colours and add snow to some shots. Some of my photofusions join shots that are 32 years old to ones from today. Matching exposure levels and colour as well as reflections with their source can make things more challenging. On some shots, I've done a flip on the lower half for a more pleasing result. Colour saturation can also give the photofusions that punch that draws your attention. I've discovered on flickr that I can pump up views on a dead picture by increasing brightness, colour and levels.
These are really interesting. It would be cool if some of these were real scenery! I particularly like the two boardwalk ones.
I loved the Tanzania on Toronto skyline. I was hoping to see other skylines fused. Perhaps the parliament buildings or the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop for variety.
I think Tanzania was really cool. I think it would be really funny if there was Mount Everest in the background.
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