Bill Smith's Photography

I am blown away with both these prints. I have not done much in the way of night photography but finding the Kodak Tri-x rated at 1600 ISO and processed in Diafine makes me a really happy camper. I shot both these prints around the Ryerson University Campus with a Minolta XE-7 set on AE. Printing them was fun too, I used up my remaining Kentmere fibre paper stash and I nailed the tones perfectly.

I hit a magic combination this photo, the lighting was just right and I got the perfect tones printing it. I was out a week ago with my Leica M3 and had a Canon 50 f1.4 lens. Yes Canon made Leica thread mount lenses back in the early 1960's and I use mine with an adapter, I really like the contrast this lens renders. The film of choice was Ilford HP5 processed in D-76 1+1 dilution which gets you a nice grain structure and I printed on Kentmere Fineprint glossy fibre paper.