Another working trip to Calgary this week; I had my DSLR with me to do a portrait for a co-worker, but no real time for photography otherwise. I did notice an interesting light pattern in my hotel room though. You shoot it where you find it.
Nikon D7100 DSLR, 18-105mm lens
This caught my eye in my hotel room.
iPhone 6+, Hipstamatic App
This is the first post with my new (to me) Nikon P600. It was a very dark dull morning by the water in the Toronto Beaches. I got it specifically for the super zoom capability for the total solar eclipse in the midwest US in August 2017, although this images is more medium-wide.
Nikon P600 Digital
I love images that have interior frames. This image is from the Chinese Garden in Vancouver. It was not a bright afternoon and I did not have a tripod with me to get the smaller aperture/slower shutter speed and larger depth of field I would have preferred for the colour film shot. I took the black and white retro-styled image with my iPhone and the Hipstamatic app.
Hasselblad 500C/M, Kodak Portra 400 film
iPhone 6 Plus, Hipstamatic App
Yesterday we went to the Vancouver Art Gallery to see the Walker Evans photography exhibit. (Incredible and well worth seeing, by the way. If you’ve never seen top quality silver gelatin prints, this is an exhibit to see!). I happened to look through a doorway and saw a gallery employee in a perfect pose, framed by the building, so I quickly took the shot with my iPhone before he moved.
The lighting and angle for this image of a First Nations carving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vanacouver gave an expression to the figure I was not expecting.
This is the second of two weeks away from the darkroom, so while I will be shooting film I can’t post it until my return to Toronto. So in the meantime, I will have fun with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. 🙂
Yesterday afternoon, waiting at Yorkminster Park Baptist church in Toronto, for a concert rehearsal to begin. The light coming in was amazing.
iPhone, Hipstimatic app
My wife Janice belongs to the early music ensemble Sine Nomine, and last night they put on a concert of 14th century music at St. Thomas’ Church in Toronto. I had a chance to take a couple of images with the Hipstamatic: one of some of the instruments used, and the other of the Bapistry at the back of the church.
The Hipstamatic app on my iPhone will always in one sense be a guilty pleasure, as its affects are digital recreations of classic photographic techniques; my favourite are the wet plate / tintype effects. While no substitute for the real thing, it’s hard to imaging bringing a view camera and a portable darkroom in Podcamp Toronto 2016 yesterday to take a quick portrait of my friend Sylvain.
My Third Eye 