My eyes aren’t getting younger, and focusing manual telephotos is not getting any easier, so I treated myself to a Tamron 70-300mm lens. I was out at the Beaches yesterday, and paired it with my Sony a6100 body.
Tag: Toronto Beaches
Building in the Beaches
I was in the Beaches in Toronto yesterday, and was shooting using the slit aperture technique for the first time this season. I tired combining that technique with some intentional out of focus, and like the result I got.
A Sunday Visit to RH Harris
It was a lovely morning yesterday for going to the RH Harris water treatment plan in the Beaches here in Toronto yesterday. I have been here many times, but I found at least one new angle I haven’t done before, and the liught was good for photographing through windows to get views I wouldn’t have been able to get during Doors Open last week.
All images taken with my Sony a7ii and either my Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 lens or 50mm f/2 NIkkor-H 50mm lens (via adapter).
ICM Storefront
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.
Inside an Installation
Every year the Winter Stations art installation exhibit takes place by the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto.
I went down this morning to take advantage of some bright sunshine, taking a fisheye lens along with my Sony a6100 camera body. I quite liked this piece, and the fisheye lens allowed me to feel as if I was inside it.
Some Telephoto Work
It is easy to get in a rut, and my happy place always seems to be wide-angle and normal lenses. So I am going to try working telephoto lenses more into the mix.
This morning I was back at the Toronto Beaches, with my Sony a7ii body, and my Pentax Takumar 135mm f/3.5. A lovely, smooth and compact lens!
Contemplation
A few days ago I was at the Beaches very early, just around the beginning of sunrise, and saw this solitary soul contemplating the waters of Lake Ontario.
Back to the Beaches
Yes I like a red filter effect equivalent in post!
All images taken with my Sony 6100 and either a TTArtisans 23mm f/1.4 or 25mm f/2.4 lens.
A Different View
Back to the Beaches yesterday, and another flower picture but a different view. IT’s a sunflower, but not taken from the usual head on angle.
Chairs In the Ice
Down in the Beaches again this week, and noticed two Muskoka chairs frozen in the ice. I took this image with my Sony A7ii and my TTArtisans 50mm f/2 lens.
My Third Eye 