Category: Medium Format

The Usual Angle

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.

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Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Ilford HP5+ film, developed in Ilfosol 3

BCE Place

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.

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Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
llford HP5+ film developed in Ilfosol 3

Not By Design

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.

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In High Park

There are certain spots I am drawn to repeatedly, and this location in High Park is one of them, especially off-season before plants have really started growing again.

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Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm Distagon 
Rollei Retro 80S film

Old Wheel

It was hard getting a good angle on this wheel at Riverdale farm with a fence in the way but I found some space.

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Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon
Rollei RPX 400 film

Back In Time #2

Continuing yesterday’s theme, another mystery roll I developed for the Facebook challenge was an even bigger surprise: it contained images of Pestum, Italy from a trip almost five years ago. I had shot multiple rolls there and this one I guess just got missed. What a thrill when I pulled it out of the tank! All images taken with a Mamiya M645j (since sold) on Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film

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Back in Time

As part of a Facebook Seven Day Photography Challenge  I have been developing rolls of film I had lying around, sometimes for so long i had no idea what was on them. Christmas has at leas struck twice so far this week: I developed a roll of Ultrafine Xtreme 400 film and it turned out to be from a trip to Cologne, Germany about 5 years ago.  Here are a few images.

Train Station

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Spiral Stairs

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Street Performer at Cologne Christmas Market

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Entrance to the Dome Cathedral

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