Now and Here
Convocation Hall under steam and night sky
View larger on black. Featured on the BlogTO Radar page for April 10, 2009.
At centre is Convocation Hall at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. It is used for graduation ceremonies, as a lecture hall for some of the largest courses (like Psych 100), and also for concerts and other events. I been in this building at various times for all of these purposes, including for a first-year course, and for convocation.
On the right is Knox College, and on the left is the Sandford Fleming building, home to the Computer Science department and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The smoke stack is on campus about a block beyond, near Huron Street. I never knew what it was for, but bytepusher below writes: The smokestack is for the University's central steam plant on Russell Street, where steam is generated for heating and transmitted to most of the buildings on campus through a network of underground tunnels. Thanks for the info!
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This is "pseudo-HDR", a blend of 7 layers derived from 3 raw files, exposures of 25, 13 and 4 seconds at f/5. Alignment was done using Hugin/autopano-SIFT/Enfuse, and I hand-blended using layer masks in the GIMP. Not perfect, but we only learn by trying.
Convocation Hall under steam and night sky
View larger on black. Featured on the BlogTO Radar page for April 10, 2009.
At centre is Convocation Hall at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. It is used for graduation ceremonies, as a lecture hall for some of the largest courses (like Psych 100), and also for concerts and other events. I been in this building at various times for all of these purposes, including for a first-year course, and for convocation.
On the right is Knox College, and on the left is the Sandford Fleming building, home to the Computer Science department and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The smoke stack is on campus about a block beyond, near Huron Street. I never knew what it was for, but bytepusher below writes: The smokestack is for the University's central steam plant on Russell Street, where steam is generated for heating and transmitted to most of the buildings on campus through a network of underground tunnels. Thanks for the info!
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This is "pseudo-HDR", a blend of 7 layers derived from 3 raw files, exposures of 25, 13 and 4 seconds at f/5. Alignment was done using Hugin/autopano-SIFT/Enfuse, and I hand-blended using layer masks in the GIMP. Not perfect, but we only learn by trying.