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It has been awhile since I went to Little Italy to photograph procession. The last time I went was before Covid with the Toronto Film Shooters’ group. This year I went with Olivia Bellot, a UK A-level student. She is taking photography and while visiting Toronto, she wanted to take a few courses from LPC, including one on street photography. She wanted to shoot in the style of Bruce Gilden and I thought it would be fun.
I used my Lecia Q2 in manual mode and mounted a manual only flash. The nice thing about the Q2 is its leaf shutter so I could sync the flash at 1/2000s without resorting to a special high-speed sync mode. This enabled me to control the background exposure. As the flash was on manual, I did a couple of test exposures to dial in the f-stop and then made sure I was roughly the same distance from each subject for each photo. Hope you like the results.
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001203_Q2-684x1024.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001204_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001209_Q2-684x1024.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001215_Q2-684x1024.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001224_Q2-684x1024.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001250_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001256_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![The man is using the same model that launched my love of photography.
Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001283_Q2-684x1024.jpg)
![Toronto mayor Olivia Chow. Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001252_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001243_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001321_Q2-1024x684.jpg)
![Taken with the Leica Q2.](https://arielandres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Andres_20240329_1001328_Q2-1024x684.jpg)