On any summer Saturday, this faux temple in Guildwood Park plays host to one wedding party after another, there for wedding photos. No weddings here in the winter!
Pentax 67, 55mm/f3.5 lens, 1/125th @ f8
Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, EI 80, developed in Rodinal 13.5 minutes @ 20 C.
I finally finished a roll of Eastman 2366 duplicating film yesterday, both started and finished at the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto’s Beaches district. 2366 is a slow (EI 15) very sharp film that I am really learning to love the look of! In this image, a casual glance might lead one to think it was sand, but this is all snow, on a bitterly cold January day.
Pentax K1000, 28mm/f2.8 SMC Pentax lens
Eastman 2366 film, E.I. 15, developed in Xtol 1:1 for 10 minutes
One of my current favourite film cameras continues to be my early 1960’s era Olympus Pen F 35mm half frame single lens reflex. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I only have one lens for it, and additional lenses are collectable (read, not cheap). So I was thrilled last week when an adapter arrived from China that will allow me to use Nikon and Canon glass on this camera. (It’s really two adapters in one: a Canon EF to Olympus Pen adapter, and a Nikkor to Canon EF adapter). Yesterday before meeting up with a friend I went out in highly variable weather with a Nikkor 105mm/f.25 lens attached. While I got some vignetting in the viewfinder it didn’t seem to affect the final images :-).
The white dots are snowflakes.
Olympus Pen F, Nikkor 105mm/f2.5 lens
Rollei 80s developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 16 minutes
This morning I took advantage of a striking winter sun and went down to Sugar Beach in Toronto. Although the sun was bright the wind was bitter, and it was challenge using the camera with thick gloves on,
The film I used (for the first time) was Eastman Duplicating film 2366, a specialized stock with high contrast, high sharpness and very fine grain. I was shooting into the sun so there is some inevitable highlight blow-out but I think it suits the look.
Pentax K1000 35mm SLR, 28mm/f2.8 SMC Pentax lens,
Eastman 2366 film exposed at EI 10, developed in Xtol 1:1 for 10 minutes @ 20 C
This image is from an outing on January 1st, in a valley park in central Toronto. It was quiet and cold. I think I saw one other person while I was there.
Canon 7, 21mm/4 Voigtlander Skopar lens, Polypan F developed in Diafine 3 + 3
It was grey, dismal and rather soggy in High Park yesterday. All the jewel-like ice on the tree branches left by the ice storm in Toronto was all more or less melted. Everywhere you looked broken branches and other debris were scattered as reminders of the recent weather, and the fact that by some estimates Toronto has lost 20% of its canopy.
Canon 7 35mm Rangefinder, Voigtlander 21mm/f4 lens, Fomapan 100 film, developed in D-23 1:1 for 15 minutes
Another image from the roll shot using the Pentax 200mm/f4 lens, this time of chess players in front of Metropolitan Church in downtown Toronto. There is always an interesting collection of characters in this location!
(Pentax Spotmatic, 200mm/f4 Super Takumar lens, HP5 film at box speed, developed in D-23 1:1 15 minutes)
I finally got around to developing a roll I shot earlier this year: Ilford HP5 film, using a Pentax Spotmatic and a Pentax Super Takumar 200mm/f4 lens. Hard to beat the balance and feel of the Pentax lenses! Some street photography purists poo-poo using telephoto lenses for street work, calling it cheating, but I was there and this was the lens on the camera . . .
Pentax Spotmatic, 200mm/4 Super Takumar lens, HP5 film at box speed developed for 15 minute in D-23 1:1)
This image was created the day after the first significant snowfall of the season here in Toronto. The snow turned so many otherwise mundane objects into interesting collections of lines and patterns.
Nikon F2, 24mm/2.8 Nikkor lens, Tri-X developed in D-23 1:1 for 13 minutes
I am working from home today, nursing a bad back (injured while putting on winter boots, how Canadian is that?), and so was here for the delivery of my ANR (Anti-Newtonion Ring) glass inserts for my scanner. These inserts are designed to flatten curled negatives, without creating Newton’s Rings reflections. I’ve been really unhappy with my scans of certain kinds of films recently (mainly Tri-X), and these inserts have solved the problem, plain and simple: I rescanned a roll from last weekend and what a difference! 🙂
Pentax ME, 24mm/2.8 SMC Pentax Lens, Tri-X at EI 400, developed in D-23 1:1 for 13 minutes
My Third Eye 