Bill Smith's Photography

 It was bleak day for a hike, but I needed to get out of the house, even though it called for rain later in the day. I was pretty much the only person in Boyne Valley and I had plans to get to the north end of the park and shoot the leaf canopy. Well, the rain forcasted for later that day is arrived earlier and I didn't even make it to Murphy's peak. I shot what I shot and went home.  Camera: Nikon N90S, Nikkor AF-D 28-105 lens.  Film: Kodak Portra 400. 

 I was two weeks too early for fall colours at Boyne Valley Provincial Park, if you have a good year, the vistas are downright stunning. I want to revisit the north end of the park inside the Valley, when I shot it, the colour was green.  Seeing the scans from the weekend has me rethinking my colour workflow, the magic of matrix metering with C-41 film (haven't shot slide in a while, I have go shoot a roll before fall colours wind down. There some advantages shooting with the F90(x) body and its descendent the legendary F100 (more on that next week). Again Boyne Valley while officially classified as "moderate" a hike, there's a lot of topography to navigate and if you have been out on semi technical hikes, this will be nothing, those used to flatter pathes and more infrastructure will find it tough.  Camera: F90, Nikkor AF-D 28-105 F3.5-4.5 lens.  Film: Kodak Portra 400. 

 Boyne Valley is considered "moderate" in terms of Bruce Trail hikes, depending on your level of physical conidtioning it could a be a serious 8.5 km long trek with a lot of up and down through some of the most beautiful landscape in Southern Ontario. My friend Nicole and I had a good long walk through some pre-fall colours landscape on the first cool fall day. The big thing with this hike and I like to put the fear into anyone coming along for the first time, because once you start, you are committed to the whole loop which takes a couple of hours. If you're in decent shape, you'll come out the other end slightly achy but in a blissful state of mind from all the forest oxygen.  I took my Nikon F90 and AF-D 28-105 zoom lens. with me on this hike and used Kodak Portra 400. I was pleasently surprised, I usually struggle with this film in terms of scanning and colour correction. I had the F90 on 3D Colour Matrix metering and apertuer priority. Everything looked almost pe...