All posts in B&W Film

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sherwood Park runs along a natural ravine in the middle of Toronto. It’s a beautiful spot for a walk on a spring afternoon. This weekend we paid a visit with the…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } We spent some time this weekend in Leslieville, an up-and-coming trendy neighbourhood of Toronto, where this little lamp (hanging in a restaurant) caught my eye. I tilted the camera way back…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Another view from Ward’s Island last weekend. This was taken with the Zenobia 6×4.5 folding camera (Japanese, ca. 1952-5) — a fun machine I wrote often about on the old version…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The grounds of the Fishers Loft Inn in Port Rexton, Nfld., where the feature film The Shipping News was filmed. Nikon FG, 24mm f/2.8, orange filter, Ilford FP4 Plus, PC-Gly-TOL.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A cloudy Newfoundland sky. This image was split-toned in Photoshop but is otherwise unmanipulated. The high contrast comes from the use of an orange filter with B&W film (Ilford FP4 Plus,…

I am trying to catch up with scanning some of the many rolls of film I took in Newfoundland last summer. This image comes from Port Rexton, where my wife and I stayed for four days. More Port Rexton images can be found here, here and here. Taken with the Nikon FG and 24mm lens…

Sometimes there’s just only one way to go… Nikon FG, 24mm lens,  Efke 25 film.

Aside from some well-corrected nearsightedness, my vision is good. Why is it, then, that I’m almost unable to “see” photographically in colour? Though I enjoy taking colour photos, and it’s a simple process to convert a colour image into tonally rich B&W in Photoshop, I often find myself up against something of an internal mental…

Every February I start longing for spring. But somehow, when March comes around, I’ve usually resigned myself to some kind of permanent frosty existence. The late-March thaw then comes as a pleasant surprise. Our first thaw happened earlier this week (a balmy 16C), bringing with it the promise of longer days and sunnier skies to…

Some brush poking through the snow at Sherwood Park.