Bill Smith's Photography

This is what happens when you procrastinate in processing pushed rolls of HP5, they sit for a frew months,  Let's roll the clock back to late October 2024, when things were slightly less weird in the world.  Andre Domingues of Negative Positives Podcast fame told me that his employer, Cinestill was hosting a photo walk in Toronto, Alex Luykx and I flew the Classic Camera Revival flag. Going to photo walks you didn't organize is fun, because we're not the ones herding the group.  We met up at Downtown Camera by the used counters, along with well over a hundred other people. By the time we went across the street for the group shot at Metropolitan United Church across the street, the group was up to 200 plus. Both Alex and I were thankful we weren't leading this photo walk. Usually with the monthy Toronto Film Shooters FB group walks, we get maybe 20 people on the busiest walk.  It was pretty simple, start at Downtown Camera, pit stop at Graination Lab with the end poin...

 The Halton Radial Railway Museum is a lovely place to visit. The only downside for photographers, most of the exhibits are indoors in dimly lit barns. The obvious workaround is either shoot with Ilford Delta 3200 or Kodak Tmax P3200, alternately take the route I did, push Ilford HP5 to 1600 and shoot with a moderately wide angle lens (35 F2 AF-D) and set the camera onto Matrix Metering to get the exposure right.  Camera: Nikon F90X, AF-D 35 F2 lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400 pushed to 1600, Ilfotec HC 1+31.