Montréal Botanical Garden

On our last day in Montréal the weather finally cleared—it had been raining for two days straight—so Ingrid and I headed to the Jardin Botanique (Botanical Garden). Unfortunately, we only had a few hours to spend at the gardens and so we only saw about a quarter of it. In that time I still managed to get a bunch of nice photos.

Lessons I learned (but will probably forget again):

• Don't be afraid to dial up to ISO400 or ISO800, particularly in the glass houses, to get up to f/8.0 or so. This improves sharpness and depth-of-field more than the noise degrades the image

• When light is a bit scarce, use Tv to keep an acceptable shutter speed at the expense of aperture -- 1/160 second seems like a good value to avoid camera shake

• Use exposure override of -1/3 to -2/3 on bright flowers against dark backgrounds, and check for clipping of highlights anyway

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