I have lived in Toronto since the early 1980’s and I have never really been inside the old city hall. That was rectified yesterday morning.
Old City Hall
Tag: Sony A6100
The Old Train Turntable
Across from Rogers Centre in Toronto is an old Train Turntable. It was just screaming “wide angle” at me! yesterday morning!
A New Lens On a Sunny Day
Recently I have gotten new lenses for my APS-C (Crop Sensor) Sony a6100 camera body from 7Artisans and TTArtisans. These lenses are compact and lightweight, and deliver much better performance than their cost might indicate.
Yesterday my TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 lens arrived. Only a bit over $100 Canadian! I immediately took it out for a spin. And I was really impressed! The lens is sharp, but in a pleasing, classic way. None of the sterile, clinical sharpness that is sadly the hallmark of a lot of expensive modern lenses.
And the colour rendition! I tend to shoot mainly black and white, but the way colours pop in this lens will have me shooting more colour in the near future!
Blurred
While running an errand downtown in Toronto last week I took the time to do some photography, and tried intentionally blurring people with a slow shutter speed at Union Station. Camera was my Sony a6100 and the lens was my 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5.
At the Rail Museum
The Halton Rail Museum (about an hour outside of Toronto) is run by volunteers. In a visit yesterday I saw this volunteer, in costume, a couple of minutes before he went to give a presentation to a group of visiting children.
Red
Back to images from Rosetta McClain Gardens from Sunday morning. Again, the light was dark and moody, and as a result the colours were just popping. I was especially blown away by how the reds were glowing under the dark sky.
All I did with these images as adjust the exposure a bit and add slight vignette. No colour trickery; nature did the rest!
I took all three images with my Sony a6100 and TTArtisans 27mm f/2.8 AF lens.
More “Cookie Lens” Images
I was at Allan Gardens in Toronto yesterday morning with fellow photographers, and I brought along my “cookie” lens to use on my Sony a6100 body for exterior images. Such a fun lens to use!
St. Lawrence Market on a Quiet Day
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.
Hard Shadows
Normally one tries to avoid hard shadows in portrait photography. But last Sunday, sitting by a window in coffee shop on a brilliantly sunny morning, I decided to go with the hard shadows, and go for an affect of anonymity.
Flowers After The Rain
Coming home from Camera Club in the rain last night, and knowing more rain was forecast overnight, I resolved to go out this morning and shoot black and white macro images of rain drops on flowers.
It was a bit breezy, and focus was a real challenge, but after some work in post I got three images I like.
I used my Sony a6100 body and 90mm macro lens.
My Third Eye 