Bill Smith's Photography

After my time with my cousins, I went up to Beaverton. Jo-Anne was up north visiting family so I did a solo trip and visited extended family. Again the cliche, the less than wonderful weather makes for great photographs. Beaverton is the what I would call the almost gateway to cottage country be it continuing north on the Trans Canada Highway to Orillia or head east over to Highway 35 and the Kawarthas. My cousins own the family cottage just south of Beaverton at Cedarhurst Beach, only there's not much of a beach anymore thank you to erosion on the shores of Lake Simcoe.  This Smiths have deep roots in Brock Township and my great uncle Masson was the town doctor in Beaverton in the first half of the 20th century. Glad I got another photograph of his house on Beaverton's main street which also doubled as his surgery.  Beaverton outside of Summer is dead, winter is probably even more dead. What's interesting are the boathouses on the Beaver River which are alternatives for co...

  Slide film, isn't forgiving compared to say Kodak Pro Image 100 or Ultramx 400. I do love shooting Flic Film Chrome 400, which is motion picture Eastman Kodak Etkachrome 100, which is also the same as Kodak Alaris E100 but with sligthly different shaped sprocket holes. The big plus of Flic Film Chrome 100 is cost, and it's the same stock. Plus having Graination Lab investing in a new E6 line makes shooting slide much easier.  What's not easy is scanning slide film, sadly Silverfast 9SE isn't set up for slide film, I have to upgrade to the Studio version and that's not cheap software but I plan to do that at some point. Thankfully I still have Vuescan and it does a decent job with slide film. Granted I have not used Vuescan for several months since I made the switch to Silverfast.  I rolled with my Olympus OM4Ti which uses off the film plane metering which I trust, same with my Nikon F4, F5, F90X and F100 with Matrix metering. Shooting slide requires being on point...