Pour la défense du Québec..., a photo from Quebec, Central

Photographer's Note

Cette photo a été prise lors d'une visite au Fort numéro 1 située sur la pointe Lévy. Ce fort, ainsi que 2 autres, a été construit entre 1865 et 1872. Ceux-ci venaient renforcer le système défensif du Québec pour faire face à une possible invasion terrestre américaine. Ces trois forts n'ont jamais servi à défendre le pays...

Ce fort donne une très belle vue de la ville de Québec, de la côte de Beaupré et de l'île d'Orléans. Sur cette photo, on voit un canon qui sevrait à surveiller la tranchée tout autour du fort.

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lennarts (547) 2005-05-03 9:18

Just a quick remark: I believe the "Event" catogory is not most suitable for your photograph.

I looked also at your other photos and came to a conclusion that this is not one of your strongest photos. However, I have a habit every now and then to take a random uncritiqued photo and say something about it. This time it happened to be yours :)

I think your composition is good. And you can certainly feel the historic atmosphere. What I don't like that mush is that your photo lacks a bit sharpness for my eyes. Also the grain is visible, but here on this photo I have nothing against it, I think it actually adds to your photo. Maybe it would have helped if you shot a bit from a side, so that the bright light would have resulted a bit milder overexposition in the window. Right now even the tip of the cannon is totally overexposed and plain white. Certainly bracketing would have been a fruitdul technique to use here. But I know it's quite time and energy consuming and it can be sometimes hard to predict when to use it or not.