Yesterday the Classic Camera Revival Podcast (of which I am one of hosts) held a film photography meet-up in Hamilton, Ontario. G.A.S. stands for “Gear Acquisition Syndrome” the desire for film shooters to always get one more piece of gear. 🙂 I took this portrait of one of the attendees with my Kodak Medalist 620 camera, using respooled Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3.
OK, so I am the last person on earth to start watching Game of Thrones (hey, photography takes up a lot of time!) so when I was at the old Eastern Avenue Bridge last weekend, a couple of times some of the structure reminded me of coats of arms.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
I recently went back to the remnants of the old Eastern Avenue bridge in the lower Don Valley. The intersecting jumble of old steel caught my eye.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
OK, this is the angle that everyone shoots in BCE place. What I tried to do is play with the contrast to make it about light and shadow, as much as about architecture.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
A detail of a fountain inside BCE Place.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
Still avoiding the cliche image 🙂 This is looking in the opposite direction.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
The interior of BCE Place in downtown Toronto is photographed so often that it is difficult to avoid the cliched images that have been taken so often. In this image I tried changing the angle to get the building within the building.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
llford HP5+ film developed in Ilfosol 3
Slow speed films such as Rollei RPX 25 are contrasty by nature and don’t take kindly to overexposure, and in today’s image I totally blew it. After some work on the scan in post though I can up with this result and I find the effect interesting, although I suppose it could just be considered a post-hoc rationalization.
There are certain spots I am drawn to repeatedly, and this location in High Park is one of them, especially off-season before plants have really started growing again.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm Distagon
Rollei Retro 80S film
It was hard getting a good angle on this wheel at Riverdale farm with a fence in the way but I found some space.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon
Rollei RPX 400 film
My Third Eye 