Bill Smith's Photography

 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

I first visited the Oxtongue Rapids 10 years ago on my first photography retreat with the NLP group. I'm using the same gear sort of as I was a decade ago but with different film stocks this time around. On this post I rolled with the Nikon F3/T and Portra 160 which fast became my new favourite splurge for medium speed colour negative film. I prefer Portra 160 over 400 any day of the week and it fast replaced Ektar 100 as the new go to landscape colour negative film.  It was Jo-Anne's first time at the Oxtongue Rapids and was blown away at the beauty. I myself had another chance to photograph an extremely beautiful spot in the eastern edge of Muskoka Region. We also went further up river to see the upper rapids which I did not visit decade ago. I would love to shoot medium format colour film here at some point with my Mamiya C220F.  Camera: Nikon F3/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.  ...