Because my rate of non-baby photo-taking has slowed down to a trickle, I’ve been amusing myself by revisiting old photos in PS. This one is from November 2002 (our honeymoon!) and shows the facade of the Mikvé Israel Synagogue in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles — the oldest continuously operating synagogue in the Americas. Taken with…
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High-Rise
I have a bunch of expired Agfa Scala B&W slide film that was given to me for free (I answered a local Craigslist ad). The film is four years past date, there are no Scala lines running in Canada anymore, and it’s too much hassle for me to do B&W reversal these days — so…
Cannery area, Monterey, Cal., 2002
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Reposting some images from the past that never made it onto the site — this one was taken in 2002 when I was in Monterey for a chemistry conference. At the…
Sunflowery
The Rolleiflex is much more fun to use when the focus is adjusted. I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll ever want to use 35mm film again (seriously!)
Stepping back in
My first film post in a couple of months. (It’s hard to develop and scan B&W at home with a nine-week-old in the house!) I got these rolls developed at Dwayne’s, a large lab in Kansas that is famous as the last Kodachrome shop standing. They did a decent job and the price is right…
Exercise in simplicity
This started out as a colour, 16:9 image from my Panasonic LX2 point-and-shoot camera. Then I cropped it, converted it to B&W, tinted it, and sharpened it — in Picasa (Google’s free image-manipulation program). Picasa is actually more powerful than people give credit for.
New photo subject
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2,410 g (5 lbs and 5 oz) of newborn baby boy make an attractive photo subject!
Sherwood Park Colour Riot
.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 is a little oasis of forest in the middle of mid-town Toronto, housing a remnant of the ravine-creek-forest landscape that used to dominate the city. Unfortunately, most of the…
Maple Leafs
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunny days, the Rolleiflex, decent colour negative film, and the Epson 4490 (with Epson’s own scanning software) make a great combination.
Looking up at springtime
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } This film (Fuji Neopan 400, shot in the Rolleiflex) was processed entirely using scratch-mixed chemistry: Barry Thornton’s metol two-bath developer (4’30” in each bath), a water stop bath, and TF-2 alkaline…