I recently had a portrait session with the fourteen year old son of a friend. Being an adolescent is by definition a time of change, having a foot in both the camps of childhood and adulthood. It can make for feelings of awkwardness and consciousness as you reforge your identity.
Both images taken with Hasselblad 500C/M and 80mm/2.8 Distagon lens on Rollei Retro 400 film
Recently went for a walk at the foot of the Don River in Toronto, with the Hasselblad and the 50mm Distagon lens. Both images were shot on Rollei RPX 400 film.
I love this old building on Queen Street East in Toronto, near the River St. bridge. Glass and steel just doesn’t do it for me the way an old building like this does.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 400 film developed in Ilfosol 3
Toned in post
OK, so I am the last person on earth to start watching Game of Thrones (hey, photography takes up a lot of time!) so when I was at the old Eastern Avenue Bridge last weekend, a couple of times some of the structure reminded me of coats of arms.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
I recently went back to the remnants of the old Eastern Avenue bridge in the lower Don Valley. The intersecting jumble of old steel caught my eye.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
OK, this is the angle that everyone shoots in BCE place. What I tried to do is play with the contrast to make it about light and shadow, as much as about architecture.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
A detail of a fountain inside BCE Place.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
Still avoiding the cliche image 🙂 This is looking in the opposite direction.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3
The interior of BCE Place in downtown Toronto is photographed so often that it is difficult to avoid the cliched images that have been taken so often. In this image I tried changing the angle to get the building within the building.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
llford HP5+ film developed in Ilfosol 3
Slow speed films such as Rollei RPX 25 are contrasty by nature and don’t take kindly to overexposure, and in today’s image I totally blew it. After some work on the scan in post though I can up with this result and I find the effect interesting, although I suppose it could just be considered a post-hoc rationalization.
My Third Eye 