Today another portrait of a film photography friend 🙂 It was a lovely day at High Park yesterday when Chrissie Wu and I met up for a photoshoot. I was once again using my 4×5 Speed Graphic and vintage Petzval lens, but the film was Fomapan 100, which I have never shot in 4×5 before. Developed in Xtol 1+1 for 7.5 minutes @ 20 C, I am quite happy with the tonality of the result.
Most portraits are vertically oriented (hence the term “portrait orientation”). But it is fun to mix things up now and then. Here is another image of my photographer friend Suzanne. To show as much of the Helios 44/2 lens’s optical character (namely the swirl with the lens wide open) I felt the portrait needed to be horizontal.
Zenit 3M 35mm SLR with Helios 44/2 58mm/2 lens
Ilford FP4+ developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Diffusion and toning added in post
Recently I went to Kitchener for a shoot with my friend Suzanne Leakey. Suzanne is a talented photographer in her own right, as well as a jewellery maker. It was fun to talk shop as the shoot progressed! This image was taken with the 4×5 Speed Graphic and antique Petzval lens, on HP5+ film.
Well after today, perhaps. here are three images from my final roll shot at this fascinating location outside of Drumheller, Alberta. All images taken with my Voigtlander Bessa R and 15mm/4.5 Super-Heliar lens, on Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+1 for 9 minutes @ 20 C
Writing this on a cloudy Saturday morning, I am thinking back to a very sunny Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago at the Beaches. I love the early morning angle of the sun! This is cropped from the original half-frame image, as someone edged into frame at the last minute.
Olympus Pen F, 100mm/3.5 Zuiko lens
Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50, 11 minutes @ 20 C
This is one more image from the Distillery District: another view of one of the old pick-ups that is on display, slowing decaying.
Olympus Pen F, Pentax-M 50mm/1.4 lens used via adapters.
Shot on Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 minutes @ 20 C
From a couple of weeks back, on a Beaches morning so bright, the people on the boards are almost lost in the sun.
Olympus Pen F, 100mm/3.5 Zuiko lens
Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 11 minutes @ 20c
Another Olympus Pen half Frame image from last Saturday in the distillery district. This is the front of the other pick-up truck that is gracefully decaying in the area.
Olympus Pen F 35mm half-frame camera, Pentax-M 50mm/1.4 lens mounted via an adapter.Â
Shot on Rollei RPX 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 minutes @ 20 C
I had a great shoot yesterday with my good friend Jennifer yesterday. The sun was low in the sky, and through the trees on the U of T campus downtown the light took on a lovely dappled quality that I think worked well with the Petzval lens and the 4×5 Speed Graphic. Created using Ilford HP5+ film.
Yesterday I took part in an all day choral workshop as a member of the Exultate Chamber Singers, as we began preparing for our 2015-2016 season. The workshop took place in Toronto’s Distillery District, so at lunch I went out with my Olympus Pen F camera, with a Pentax M 50mm/1.4 lens, mounted via an $8 adapter to a Canon EOS to Olympus Pen adapter. Not nearly as cumbersome as it sounds, and coupled with a sharp fine-grained film such as the Rollei RPX 25 I think the combination works.
My Third Eye 