Bill Smith's Photography

  My friend, fellow film photographer Gaetan Cormier along with his wife Natacha Duquette hopped a VIA Train from Monteal Saturday morning to come down to Toronto to check out the Lee Miller Exhbit at the Toronto Metropolitan University's Image Centre and head back to Montreal. Made for a long day for them but we still had a chance to photo walk around downtown Toronto reasonably close to Union Station for obvious reasons.  I wound up shooting with Rollei RPX 400, it's one of my staple 400 speed black and white films I reach for, I know how it behaves in a variety of developers, but I never processed it in Rollei Supergrain. Well, we had to rectify that. There's a serious amount of tonality with the greys, now granted we're shooting a day with distressed silver skies so the lighting was flat, even then I got pleasing results. The tail end of this roll was shot around my neighbourhood with highly variable light. Note to self, don't run out of RPX 400 and Rollei Super...

 My friend from the film photography podcast and fountain pen collecting communities Jaek Rose was in town to catch a show and wanted to check out some pen stores, prior to meeting up with him I walked down Spadina from College to Grainnation, then made my way over to the Hockey Hall of Fame to meet up with him.  The skies were polished cement, so lets shoot somc colour film. sounds counter intuitive but here we are. I also wanted to try out my niece Charlotte's Christmas present, a Nikkor Ai 28 F3.5 lens which of course worked perfectly. (Spoiler alert) She loved the lens on Christmas Day!  Camera: Nikon F4, Voigtlander 40 F2 Ultron SL II Lens, Nikkor Ai 28 F3.5 lens.  Film: Fuji Superia 400, processed at Graination Lab.