Due to a lot of bad decisions, Toronto is not a city known for amazing architecture. But I have started to enjoy shooting wide shots of row buildings in black and white, cropped to emphasize the horizontal. I took these two last week with my … Continue reading Toronto Streets
Earlier this year I was in downtown Toronto on Front Street with my Sony A7ii camera. At the right time of day, and bright sunlight you can get some interesting building reflections. I lined up the sun behind the construction crane, and added the equivalent of a dark red filter in post.
I haven’t been to Toronto’s Distillery District for around a year or so, because of COVID. That changed late last week when I went down early on a sunny morning, with my OM-1 kit and some Fomapan 100.
We are all reflections.
Sony A7ii, 20mm/f2.8 Nikkor lens
Toronto developers and politicians have always been experts at ruining our lakeshore.
Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm/f2.8 CF Planar lens
Ilford HP5+ film
A couple of weeks ago I was out shooting with my friend Jo-Anne downtown. She was testing an Olympus Trip 35 she got from her parents. After decades of non-use it worked perfectly. There’s a reason it’s considered a classic :-).
I was shooting with my trusty Voigtlander Bessa R2M and 35mm/f1.7 Ultron combo. Hard to beat!
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f.7 Ultron lens
Kodak TMax 400 film, developed in Xtol stock
This image is from a recent trip to Riverdale Farm. It was a bright sunny day (the kind that Toronto doesn’t get enough of), so the challenge was to manage the contrast between light and shadow.
Rolleiflex 3.5E3 (Xenotar lens)
Kodak Tmax 100 film, semi-stand developed in Rodinal
Downtown Toronto on a misty morning a few days ago.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 50mm/f2 Heliar lens
Kodak TMax 400 film developed in Microdol-X
I shot this image under the Gardner Expressway in Toronto, To me it looks like the decaying underbelly of a city that has lost its way.
Nikon N90S, 20mm/f2.8 Nikkor lens
Kodak TMax 400 film, developed in Microdol-X
Inside Balzac’s Coffee shop in the Distillery District.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f.17 Voigtlander Ultron lens
Kodak Tri-X film @ EI 3200
2 hour semi-stand development in Rodinal
My Third Eye 