Couldn’t resist, another image of Justine having fun in the leaves at High Park. In addition to her great expression, I love the motion blur on the leaves 🙂
(Mamiya 645 Pro TL, 80mm f2.8 lens, Ilford Delta 400 film at box speed, developed in HC-110 for 7.5 minutes)
Today’s image was shot this past weekend with a new (to me) “beast” of a camera: The Mamiya RZ67. This is a BIG camera, and shoots 6 x 7 cm negatives (10 exposures on a roll of 120 film). A mainstay of studios not so many years ago, it is really meant to be used on a tripod, so of course I used it handheld, with a 127mm lens attached. 🙂
Another image of Sarah today; she shows how a “neutral expression” can be anything but deadpan.
(Mamiya 645 Pro TL, 80mm f2.8 .lens, lit with late 1950’s vintage Quartz Halogen movie light, Ilford Delta 400 film shot at E.I. 800, developed in HC-110 Dilution B for 10 minutes)
Today’s image is a hand-tinted print of Ren from the steampunk shoot; I’ll be giving this print to her later today. You might be thinking that the bicycle was tinted orange to make it surrealistic, but actually the bike is this colour in real life; it is chained more or less permanently as a piece of art in a back alley on the U of T campus in downtown Toronto
Today’s image is another one from the “Dangerous and Domestic” shoot with the very talented Mallory, using the original prop that she suggested to skewer the cliche in the subject matter. 🙂 One of my favourite kind of concepts is taking a standard idea (in this case, sexy woman on motorbike) and twisting it, taking a poke at the underlying assumptions and stereotypes.
(Mamiya 645 Pro TL, 80mm f2.8 lens, Tri-x at box speed, HC-110 Dilution B for 7.5 minutes.
Negative scanned, and some post processing done with Nik Efex.)
One final shot from the shoot in High Park with Tara. I had a parasol left over from a cancelled shoot, so I thought that spray painting it with metallic spray paint might give it a steam punk look when teamed up with the goggles. I was happy with how the parasol is sharp, where Tara is mainly slightly out of focus.
(Mamiya 645 Pro LT, 150mm f3.5 Mamiya lens, Tri-x at E.I. 800 developed in Diafine 3+3)
I’ve been shooting a lot in High Park recently, as I love the lighting and settings available. Last week, while waiting for a model to arrive I noticed a dead tree, set amongst living plans that I though would be a great place to shoot, but before the model arrived, another photographer and a model arrived (I think it was his girlfriend) and set up camp at the spot. They spent more time engaged in a bitter argument than shooting; I don’t think they will be happy with the results. Luckily, when I came back the next day for a shoot with model Chantal (featured in the image below) the spot was available, so we started our shoot there 🙂
Today’s image is turning into one of my favourite portraits of the year. It is another image of Tara in High Park. The direct low sun made for a magical light, and the variety of reflections in the glass sphere seemed endless.
The first two images I posted of model Theresa in High Park were to some extent dominated by lines and background. Today I return to more familiar territory: the amazing landscape of human facial expression.
(Mamiya 645 Pro TL camera, Tri-X exposed at E.I. 800, developed in Diafine 3+3)
Toronto is not know for vintage architecture, thanks in part to a lot of bad development decisions over the years. Much of the downtown core looks rather generic. I was walking downtown the other day, and came upon a dark, gloomy alleyway, aand it seemed to take me back a century or more.
My Third Eye 