It wasn’t the nicest weather in Ann Arbor for the FPP meet-up, so getting into the covered arcade was a nice break.
Voigtlander Bessa R, 15mm/4.5 Super Heliar
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20
Some work in post
Category: Black & White
Is This It?
On the bus, going to work in the dark at 6:30 in the morning. I so often see the hollow fatigue of those around me. Are they wondering if this is the totality of their existence?
iPhone, Hipstamatic App
In the Library
Here is another image from the recent Film Photography Podcast Meet-up in Ann Arbor. Thanks again to our tour guide Heather Gardner for taking us on a photowalk that included a fascinating college campus, including this impressive library. I had barely enough light to shoot handheld (1/15th of a second).
Voigtlander Bessa R, 15mm/4.5 Super Heliar lens
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes
Shooting What I Feel
I have probably mentioned this before, but my own theory of photography involves images that tend to fall into three categories:
- Shooting what is in front of the camera
- Shooting what I see
- Shooting what I feel
My goal as much as possible is to shoot images that fall into categories 2 and 3, and for me this image from the shore of lake Ontario last Sunday falls into category 3. The light was dramatic, and in post I heavily accentuated the drama of the light to match the emotional response I was feeling.
Kodak Medalist I with 100m/3.5 Kodak Ektar lens
Tri-X (120 film respooled onto 620 spool)
Developed in Xtol 1+1 9 minutes @ 20 C
No Direction Home
The first of a couple more images from my Canon P rangefinder with my Voigtlander 35mm/2.5 Color Skopar lens. While I was in the Lower Don Valley about 10 days ago a homeless person was walking in the same direction. Shooting him from the back felt like the better thing to do.
Shot on Rollei Retro 80S film, developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C
Empty Tracks
All the while there is talk but little action on transit in Toronto.
Canon P rangefinder, 35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Color Skopar,
Rollei Retro 80S film developed in Rodinal 1+50 14 minutes @ 20 C.
Ageless
For this image of mature trees in High Park, I used my Canon P rangefinder from the early 1960’s, my Canon Serenar 50mm/1.8 lens from 1951, and developed the Tri-X film I used in Pyrocat-HD, a developer based on a 100+ year old formulation. For something as ageless as a forest it seemed appropriate. 🙂
A New Lease on Life
One of my favourite lenses is my early 1960’s Russian-built Helios 44/2 58mm lens, with an obscure lens mount: a 39mm thread mount, not meant for Leica for a specific model of Zenit SLR’s. The lens is amazing, but I’ve had horrible luck with the bodies in terms of longevity. I found a lens mount adapter from China on eBay for six bucks that I originally got mount the lens on my Pen F half-frame, but I realized I could use on on Canon EOS mount cameras as well. At “The Big One” film camera sale last weekend I was able to pick up a Canon Rebel G body in perfect shape for $15, and this lens has a new home :-). The image below was taken the same day I got the camera body
Shot on Rollei RPX film, developed in Rodinal 1+50
Afternoon Light
I love late afternoon light, and it can often give a great look inside the bus I take home from work. This image was taken with the iPhone Hipstamatic app, then cropped a bit.
Old and New
This image was taken last weekend in a graveyard in southeastern Toronto. I took it with my Rolleiflex using Tmax 40o film, and then because of the extreme contrast of the lighting spent some time playing around with the negative scan, and the result I like the best has an old look to it.
My Third Eye 