One more of the Ice in the beaches yesterday. One of the most interesting things was the sound the water made hitting the ice covered rocks. A very distinctive sound!
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Zeiss Sonnar lens
Rollei RPX100 film, semi-stand developed in Rodinal
1+100, 1 hour
It was a beautiful, dazzling and cold morning today by the shores of Lake Ontario in the Toronto Beaches. If it gets cold enough, the ice is always interesting here.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 150mm/4 Sonnar lens
Rollei RPX 100 film
Semi-stand developed In Rodinal 1+100 for 1 hour
January 2nd, around 7:50 am. Rather chilly at the Beaches.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 50mm/4 Distagon lens
Kodak Portra 400 film
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.
My Third Eye 