One more image from under the bridge near Yonge and St. Clair in Toronto. I was drawn to the lines.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 400 stand developed in Rodinal
Category: architecture
A Combination of Factors
I was out on Friday with the Hasselblad, and took this image in Nathan Phillips Square. I used a roll of expired Tri-X Professional, and as it turned out the film back I was using will have to have its light seals replaced, as there was some fogging. But the combination of technical issues resulted in a look I quite like. I had to walk around a bit to get the correct angle for the sun, so I didn’t get blinded 🙂
Hasselblad 500 C/M, 80mm/2.8 Planar lens
Tri-X Professional (ISO 320)
Stand developed in Rodinal 1+100 for 1 hour
Under the Bridge
From my walk in the Ravine near Yonge/St Clair on Friday.
Hasselblad 500 C/M, 50/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX400 film, stand developed in Rodinal,
1+100, 1 hour
Exaggerating Angles
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum was always controversial: a lot of people absolutely hated the look of this addition to a more traditional structure. From a photographic point of view though it offers a lot of possibilities. In this image (from the Open Streets event last weekend) I used my Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide Heliar lens. This lens is among the wider in the 35mm format, and I like what it does with the already dramatic angles of this structure.
Canon P Rangefinder, Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide-Heliar
JCH StreetPan 400 film, developed in Legacy Pro EcoPro developer
At Night
I tend to not do a lot of night photography, and I really have to change that! It is a real gap in my work. I did do a night shoot the other evening with fellow photographer friend Bill Smith: I love the night time look of the Murphy’s Law pub in Toronto at Queen St / Kingston Road. We set up our cameras on tripods across the street an shot during gaps in the traffic.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm/2.8 Planar lens
Lomography 400 C-41 film
Fading
I’ve lived long enough in Toronto to remember brighter days, when the city was described as “New York run by the Swiss”. Before decades of infrastructure neglect, enshrined through the selfish parsimony of the electorate, and the cowardice of elected officials. In today’s images, even though the park and the bridge are still in use, there is still to my eyes an atmosphere of neglect. All images created with Nikon F3, 28mm/2.8 Nikkor lens. Rollei Retro 80s film developed in Rodinal and toned in post.
Power Station
Last Sunday morning I drove a few minutes from Niagara-On-the-Lake towards Niagara Falls to take a few images of the Sir Adam Beck power station with my Hasselblad 500C/M and Distagon 50mm/4 lens. The film was Kodak Portra 800, exposed at E.I. 400.
A New Combo
I’ve recently liked developing Ilford HP5 Plus in Ilford Perceptol developer, for fine grain and nice tonality, but it is an expensive developer. I was very happy therefore to find an equivalent developer, Legacy Pro Mic-X that gives me the same kind of results, for a lot less money! Both these images (shot in Niagara-On-the-Lake using my Rolleiflex 3.5E3 camera) are all from the first roll of HP5 Plus I developed using this developer. I’m sold!
Morning Light
From my recent weekend in Hamilton. Walking around the downtown core around 8 am I loved seeing how the morning light lit up old buildings such as this one.
Rolleiflex 3.5E3, Xenotar lens
Tri-X film
The Clock in The Station
While in Hamilton recently I revisited the Art Deco period GO transit bus terminal, with my Rolleiflex 3.5E3 and some Tri-X film.
My Third Eye 