Bill Smith's Photography

I really have to take my Leica M4-2 on more adventures outside the city. The annual No Light Pollution photography retreat came up quick this year. with one major difference, I was starting in Toronto, not in Oakville and I didn't have to get quite so early this time around. We drove up to the Shortis/s/ Cafe in Beaverton for breakast before hitting Highway 35. Fall colours this year as bit of a bust, we were a few weeks early and honestly, it felt like late August. That said, not one drop of rain and we got lots of sun.  This year I packed my Lcica M4-2 and a couple of lenses for the drive up and back and a Nikon F100 for the hikes where more versitle lenses were required. I will say this again Kodak Pro Image 100 is a great film I love the results I got on the drive up.  I had to do very little work in Lightroom, pretty much just cropping pretty much.  To re-cap, Light Lens Labs lenses love colour film. and I have to shoot more with my M4-2 outside the city.  Camer...

 Alright, this isn't the last of my NLP 2023 set of photos, I have two rolls of slide film out being processed and they are a tad late. They are going to get scanned eventually.  I rolled with the Nikon FM2/T on the trip home and to be honest, it just delivered with Kodak Portra 160, I've fallen in love with this emulsion, hard. I do plan to buy more next year, just as I'm going to buy more motion picture stock Ektachrome 100.  Camera: Nikon FM2/T, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Kodak Portra 160

As much as I like shooting with Kodak Ektar 100, I've grown to prefer Portra 160 over it. For a few reasons, Porta 160 is easy to scan with very little colour correction, almost zero grain, and I'm loving the more "true colour" vibe.  The only thing I don't like like about Portra 160 is price but then I'm sitting on a pile of Kodak Aerocolor IV under the Flic Film Elektra 100 label for more regular work.  One thing I'm really happy about is I finally got a chance to photograph a plane on floats, in this case a Piper Cub moored up behind Robinson's General Store in Dorset. You're up north and you expect to see them but in the ten years I've beeing going up to Billie Bear, aside from the search and rescue DeHaviland Turbo Beaver stationed in Algonquin Park. I haven't seen any float planes up close and personal.  Nikon F3/T, Nikkor AIS lenses.  Film: Kodak Portra 160.  ...