The second image from my recent photo shoot withZoë, this time with my Mamiya 645 Pro TL, the most “modern” (relatively speaking) of the cameras I took along for the shoot. Film was one of my last rolls of Plus-X in medium format. F
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Zoë 1
Yesterday I had a great shoot with Zoë, a talented friend from the theatre world. I was packing three very different film cameras, so I will write three separate blog posts, one for each camera. Today’s image was taken with my Zenit 3M 35mm SLR and Helios 44/2 lens, shot wide open with a yellow filter. Its background swirl and bokeh are unique. I added some vignetting in post to the negative scan.
Lerwick Harbour Structure
In the harbour of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands I found this building interesting
Voigtlander Bessa R, 15mm/4.5 lens,
Rollei Retro 80s film developed in Rodinal 1+50, 14 minutes @ 20 c
The Park In the Evening
Taylor Creek Park (close to home in Toronto) is so lovely on an early summer evening 🙂
Voigtlander Bessa R, 35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Lens,
Rollei Retro 80s film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
Early Evening Light
The Light in the Princes Street Garden at around 7 pm in June is lovely; the low angle of the sun makes for some great shadows!
Rolleiflex E3, 75mm/3.5 Xenotar lens.
Tri-X film developed in Tmax Dev
View From the Balcony
I meant to post this image from our Scotland trip and didn’t get around to it until now. The sky cooperated on the morning I took this image of the Scottish coast!
Voigtlander Bessa R Rangefinder,
35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Skopar lens and 25 A Red Filter
Rollei Retro 80s film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
Post 750: Thinking About Time
This post marks the 750th entry in my photography blog, and three-quarters of the way to one thousand has a nice, significant sounding number to it. While I on occasion may wistfully dream of more traffic to my blog, I immediately rebuke myself; it’s not the most important thing. It’s about creating a body of work that I can very occasionally feel proud of (although I’m always only one bad roll of film away from scorning myself as a photographer but that’s another issue.)
Today’s image was taken at the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle located in the Orkney islands in Scotland. Older than Stonehenge, this place makes you think about time and permanence.
Voigtlander Bessa R Rangefinder, 15mm/4.5 Superwide Heliar lens
Rollei Retro 80s film, developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
Interior Spaces
I love larger interior spaces, like these spaces in the art gallery we visited in Glasgow. all images taken with Voigtlander Bessa R Rangefinder, 15mm/4,5 Superwide Heliar lens.
Light and Shadow
The lower angle of the sun lent a certain starkness to the light and shadows of the streets of Edinburgh, and I like what it did to the architecture
Rolleiflex E3, 75mm/3.5 Xenotar lens
Tri-X 400 developed in Tmax Dev 1+4 for 6 minutes @ 20 C
Shores of Shetland
Back to the digital today, and another image where I created a faux-infrared effect in post, with Lightroom and Nik Efex.
My Third Eye 