I am getting back into hand tinting, but using a digital workflow. Using an iPad, the Procreate app, and an Apple Pencil, I find the process of laying down digital “pigment” and then thinning it out to get the desired level of transparency to be very reminiscent of how I used to do it with darkroom prints and photo oils.
This building in Mississauga, Ontario has fascinating architecture! Very fisheye lens-friendly!
All images taken with a Sony a6100 body and Bower 7.5mm fisheye lens (mounted via adapter).
The new north building at the St. Lawrence Market is crammed and busy on the weekends. But in the middle of the week it is quiet.
I have a list of photographic ideas and locations I want to try, and on that list is the stairs into the north end of the Glen Stewart Ravine in East Toronto, shot with my 4mm circular fish-eye lens, so that was my outing yesterday morning. Here are two black and white images, along with a faux-infrared treatment.
Out this morning in the Kingston Road / Warden area in Toronto / Scarborough. A neighbourhood of contrasts. My eye was drawn to the decay. All images taken with a Sony a6100 body and 7.5mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
Given current geopolitical events, so often when I got out with my camera I am looking for distortions, making things look unreal, etc. And when I get home to do the post work I am doing it even more.
Nothing seems normal. Everything feels wrong, like it’s twisting into a dystopian spiral.
This morning I went to the University of Toronto campus, and yet again I feel my images reflect what is looming over us in Canada.
I was out with photography friends this week, in the northwest portion of the TTC Line One subway. Iwas shooting with my 4mm f/2.8 spherical fisheye lens, and I like the results I got.
Images from a couple of cathedrals in downtown Toronto last week. All taken with my Sony a6100 body and 7.5mm fisheye via adapter.
Back to the Art Installation at Woodbine Bach in the Beaches this morning, armed with a fisheye lens.
In a day of pervasive right wing propaganda and attacks on schools, public libraries have never been more important. Knowledge is an important weapon for fighting back!
Last week I was at the Metro Reference Library here in a Toronto. It is an amazing space, well suited for a fisheye lens!
My Third Eye 