I love lots of shadows in my portraits. This one is from an outing with friends at a coffee shop a few days ago.
Shadow Portrait
Inside an Installation
Every year the Winter Stations art installation exhibit takes place by the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto.
I went down this morning to take advantage of some bright sunshine, taking a fisheye lens along with my Sony a6100 camera body. I quite liked this piece, and the fisheye lens allowed me to feel as if I was inside it.
An Image of Balance
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!
An Only Cafe Portrait: Bill Komar
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.
Inside a Bench
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.
An Only Cafe Portrait: Pat
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.
Artist at Work
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.
The New Eglinton LRT (Line 5) in Toronto
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.
Panorama at St. Lawrence Market
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.
Not Much Action at the Bike Rental
Another image from last week, a few days after the big storm. I cropped this image to make it more panoramic
My Third Eye 