I took this portrait of my friend Michael yesterday.
I recently purchased a TTArtisan 75mm f/1.5 lens (a copy of a famous and very expensive Zeis BIotar lens from the early-mid twentieth century), and this is the first portrait I took with it that I am really happy with. It’s a manual focus lens, and my eyes are not getting any younger, so focusing wide open does have its challenges.
A friend looked may the portrait and said it was “balanced.” That description works for me!
Another portrait this morning. The weather outside the Only Cafe was horrible, making the light inside very interesting.My photography friend Bill Komar braved the weather and joined me at the coffee shop.
A few days ago I was at a Toronto Camera Club at The Well here in Toronto. There was a long wooden bench, open at both, with spaces for the light to get through. I took an image with my iPhone (wide angle lens) and was struck by the lack of scale; this image could be a large tunnel, etc. There is nothing to really indicate the size.
This past Friday I got together with my friend Pat for a portrait session for my Only Cafe Portrait Series project.
I had been hoping for a cloudy morning to soften the light, but it turned out to be sunny, so that was a challenge I had to overcome, but I think I managed.
I met up with my good friend Alan for some tabletop macro photography at the Only Cafe here in Toronto yesterday. I used my iPhone for this image, and added a vintage treatment in Lightroom afterwards.
It was fun shooting something new in Toronto yesterday. The Wednesday gang went to check out the Eglinton LRT transit line which opened this week.
All images taken with my Sony a6100 and 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5.
Last Saturday I was at the St. Lawrence market, and took this image with my iPhone 15 in panorama mode. Some of the people in the image were in motion, which can “confuse” the camera in pano mode.
Another image from last week, a few days after the big storm. I cropped this image to make it more panoramic
Last Wednesday I was out with my “Wednesday Gang” of photography friends. One of them was wearing some great sunglasses that caught the light by a window in the coffee shop where we were all congregating.
It has been three days since the big storm in Toronto.
I was downtown in the Dundas and Spadina area this morning. Lots of sun, and lots of snow, as the clean up continues.
All images taken with my Sony a7ii body and Voigtlander 15mm f/4,5 Superwide Heliar lens.
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