Bill Smith's Photography

  More from the second Spring photo walk at the end of May. It was a beautiful day and a great route from Riverdale to Danforth Village Camera: Nikon F3/T, Nikkor Ais 50 F1.4 lens.  Film: Kodak Portra 400. 

What I like about photowalks with the Toronto Film Shooters Facebook Group is a chance to explore the city outside what I'm familiar life. We walked the Beaches a lot over the years, and the walk from the Riverdale locaion of the Rooster and going trough Riverdale Park into Cabbagetown. A true east end walk has never been done, well, time to change that. The late May photowalk route started at Riverdale Perk Coffeehouse on Logan and we went from Riverdale to Danforth Village by way of Little India. Another reason why I like exploring the city is, I don't plan on staying in Oakville and I want to move into the city and would rather be outside the downtown core in one of the neighbourhoods.  The camera of choice was one of my Nikon F3's, the black titanium version, the meter is spot on and shot my last two rolls of Kodak Portra 400. Oddly enough, they were easy to scan, the secret was not using the old Portra profiles in Vuescan instead just going generic and doing any minor ...

 I took Jo-Anne up to one of my happy places, Limehouse Conservation Area a few weeks ago for a hike, she forgot her camera so I loaned her one of my Canon FTb's. I ran with a Nikon F90X with my 28-105 zoom lens. which was perfect for the hike and shot with Kodak Portra 400. With this walk in the woods changed my mind with workflow and with Portra 400, I finally cracked the scanning code, more on that later.  Jo-Anne loved Limehouse, since we were out on the weekend, the trail was surprisingly busy for mid November. What saddened me was due to the number of idiots during the pandemic, the Credit River Conservation Authority had to "bubble wrap" some parts of the conservation area because of local idiots looking for that shot for Instagram or backdrop for their TikTok Video. That's the reason why the arch part of sawmill ruins is now wrapped up in construction fencing. Also, there were rope boundries which weren't there back in the spring. Thanks idiots, this is wh...