It’s fun to go out from time to time with my “Oreo Cookie” lens. A single element, fixed focus lens reclaimed from a single-use camera. With a lens like this, you aren’t shooting for technical quality; you are shooting for fun.
These are images of downtown Toronto yesterday, using hte cookie lens on my Sony a6100.
Photographing the Dragon Boat races at the Islands this past Saturday morning. I do not have a modern long telephoto lens, and was forced to use an old 200mm Pentax lens, and an old craptastic Spiratone 500mm f/8 mirror telephoto lens. Both manually focused.
My focus hit rate was not good, lol.
I have been to this bridge a coiuple of times, but this is the first time shooting it with my 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5 lens (Sony a6100 body).
A good friend of mine, deep in conversation while camping this past weekend.
Today I checked out the largest secondhand bookstore I have ever been in, in Amherst, Nova Scotia. One image cannot capture the size. It was huge but felt cramped at the same time!
Some more images of Amherst, Nova Scotia, but with black and white treatments. All images taken with Sony a6100 body and 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5 lens
I am on a trip in Nova Scotia, and yestreday was a very sunny afternoon in Amherst. Not a lot of people out and about (compared to what I am used to) and I ended up creating a surreal look. The colours in this image were inspired by Lomo Turquoise film.
I have being trying some more ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) recently, and two evenings ago in the Beaches here in Toronto I passed by a Queen Street storefront for a store that makes awards, plaques, trophies, that kind of thing. It was getting dark so I tried some ICM and I like what I got.
The first image is a side to side movement, and the second is an up and down movement.
Both images were taken with my Sony a6100 and TTArtisan 27mm f/2.8 lens.
The Sheppard line subway in Toronto is by far the least used. But it does have some interesting stations. All images taken with my Sony a6100 body and 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5 lens
A lovely morning in Toronto today (compared to the dismal day we had yesterday), so perfect for an outing to the Glen Stewart Ravine. I used my Sony a6100 body and TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 lens for these images.
