Bill Smith's Photography

 Jo-Anne and peeled off from the group after lunch Saturday and went for a hike in Limberlost Nature Preserve, one of my favourite happy places. We chose a shorter hike around Clear and Turtle Lakes but the network is designed as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" and scale up to a really long hike if you wanted to. We both are introverts by nature and need some downtime from the crowd.  I also had a chance to shoot with my Nikon AF-D 20 F2.8 prime lens, it's almost an essential for landscape photography as you can tell with the last few images. The F100 was the perfect camera to roll with while hiking, easy to use and you still have the sophisticated matrix metering system sort of 80% of an F5 without the heavy chassis.  As you can tell we were two weeks early for fall colours in the Northern Muskokas and Algonquin Highlands. You roll with what you have and enjoy the early fall day.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 proc...

  I'm getting my sea legs with scanning 250D, the secret is, try and solve things in the scanning stage and use Lightroom the put the finishing touches on an image. I think I'm getting better at scanning at Vision 250D, it's a lot like Cinestill 400D but there's an anti halation layer courtesy the remjet.  Haven't shot much in Little Italy and I'm pondering a photo walk route, still working on it. Shooting colour in Kensington Market pulls in the neighbourhood character in as much as black and white does. Been a while since I shot with my chrome Nikkormat FTn, it was recently overhauled by Halton Camera Exchange and it feels like a new camera despite being almost 50 years old. I rolled with a Nikkor Ai 35 F2 lens and it was a perfect compliment for the environment being document.  Camera: Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor Ai 35 F2 lens.  Film: Refix Labs Spooled Eastman Kodak Vision 3 250D, processed by Graination Lab in ECN-2 Chemistry  ...