One of my goals for 2017 is to do more night photography so last night I went with my good friend Bill Smith down to the Beaches to try shooting a test roll of Rollei RPX100, to determine the best exposure. My favourite image is this one, shot with my Hasselblad 500C/M and 50mm/4 Distagon lens. The exposure time was 15 seconds @ f8.
This is the first post with my new (to me) Nikon P600. It was a very dark dull morning by the water in the Toronto Beaches. I got it specifically for the super zoom capability for the total solar eclipse in the midwest US in August 2017, although this images is more medium-wide.
Nikon P600 Digital
There are a number of these sets of chairs at the Toronto Beaches, and I have featured them a couple of times in the past. This is how they caught my eye in the winter.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm/4.5 lens
Ilford Delta 400 film @ E.I. 200
developed in LegacyPro MicX developer
This is the last image from my series of images taken at the Beaches in Toronto with my Mamiya RZ67 and red/polarizing filters. The film used for this image was Rollei Retro 80s.
The Beaches / Red Filter theme continues, with this image of rocks at the Beaches.
Mamiya RZ67, 127mm Mamiya lens, with red filter
Rollei RPX25 film
.. and the CN tower creeping in on the right.
Mamiya RZ67, 127mm Mamiya lens with red and polarizing filters
Rollei RPX 25 film
I was down at the Beaches again this morning; my Hasselblad is in the shop, so out came the Mamiya RZ67 (Medium format, 6cm x 7cm negative size). I was shooting Rollei RPX25, with a combination of red and polarizing filters to darken the sky, so I was shooting at an effective speed of EI 1, meaning that even on a bright sunny day the exposures were in the range of half a second to one second in length. I love the blurring effect on water, especially crashing water in this morning’s lively breeze. It seems ghostly to me.
On a clear evening at the Beaches, the waters of Lake Ontario take on a lovely intense blue shade, quite unlike the colour in the morning or during the rest of the day. The only changes to this image in post were contrast and an exposure level adjustment
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Sonnar lens
Kodak Portra 400 film
Another image from my walk at the Beaches last Thursday evening. Thinning crowds and empty spaces.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Zeiss Sonnar lens
Kodak Portra 400
I was in the Glen Stewart Ravine in the Beaches last weekend. Everything is so green and alive! (Although the tree stump in the second image leaves me wishing I could have seen the tree when it was alive). All images taken with Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens on Kodak Ektar 100 film.
My Third Eye 