Flickr Forum: March 2nd, 2007

<p><font size="2" face="Arial">I took this photograph of a small poster stapled onto the lamp post while walking down Church St. couple of weeks ago. When I got home I had to check out what it was all about by visiting the web site (the url was at the bottom of the poster). Surely I have learned a bit more from there: <br />
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<em><strong>Have you paid the Booty Tax?</strong><br />
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Have you ever gotten a parking ticket while answering a late night booty call? Then you&rsquo;ve paid the City a booty tax. XYYZ, the website for guys in Toronto, asks you to join in the fight against this tax. Support the creation of the Booty Pass, a $10 overnight parking permit that can be bought online to eliminate the risk of those booty call parking tickets.<br />
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<strong>Get your Unofficial Booty Pass</strong><br />
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Every download of XYYZ's unofficial Booty Pass before February 28, 2007 is a vote in its favour. Proudly display it the next time you're answering a booty call. (We can&rsquo;t guarantee you won&rsquo;t get a ticket.) In March, XYYZ will present the vote tally to City Hall along with a petition to have our Booty Pass officially sanctioned (Your vote is completely anonymous. Read our privacy policy.)</em> <br />
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I thought it was pretty funny and at the same time it made a lot of sense! There was also an article about the Booty Pass campaign in last weeks Now Magazine! <br />
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More here: <a href="http://www.bootypass.ca/"; target="_blank">http://www.bootypass.ca/<;/a></font></p>

Thanks for the invite. Hopefully this image is less controversial then my last image. This is a pano shot of the lobby of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres. This is one of those most see Toronto heritage sites the last of its kind double decker Theatre saved from decay and the showing of porno movies.

Ryan

Hey! Thanks for including my photo in the FFF.

I was treated to a ticket to one of the corporate boxes in the ACC's gondola level (right up at the top)... After checking where the box was on the ACC's website, I figured it was in one of the better spots to get a really nice wide angle shot of the whole arena. Sure enough, it was just off centre at one of the ends. I took a few test shots to get the histogram where I wanted to get detail in as much of the arena as possible and shot manual at those settings for the rest of the night. This was one of about 40 I took. Given the audience-creep that tends to occur at sporting events I determined the best time to shoot would be between halfway through the first period to halfway through the second period - to get the most 'asses in the seats'... Next problem was finding a decent enough spread of players on the ice with a little bit of action - no fun if they're all bunched at the far end or on one side. This was during a shift change, I think. I'm very pleased with the result! There was a fair bit of post work in Photoshop to bring up detail and even out the light using Shadow/Highlights, plus a little bit of unsharp mask (faded for luminosity). The original shot was on the dark side, deliberately, to save details in the highlight areas.

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