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March Break in the Beaches

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The standard rule of thumb when shooting with Kodak Ekar 100 colour film is it loves bright sun. This past March Break I didn't get a lot of that while house sitting in the Beaches at my brother's place. I went out on I think Tuesday, the light looked pretty good so I loaded up my camera with some Kodak Ektar 100, a colour film that leans towards a saturated look. Well, mother nature had other ideas as I walked further east along the boardwalk. I like what I got out out of this series. What you see here is the winter art installation along the Beaches, design students come up with seasonal shelters to build around the lifeguard chairs and they get dismantled towards the end of March. The rope structure was particularly interesting as I got to play with my new macro lens with the rope shots. One thing I did notice in some frames the film was not being exposed evenly. My Nikon F2SB was recently overhauled and was worried it was a shutter issue, but it was only with certain s...

Walking up Spadina

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There's a street car theme happening here..... Camera: Rollencord IV, Schneider 75 f3.5 lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600, HC110 B.

Toronto Just West of the Financial District

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I don't wander around west of Spadina often enough. I was in Toronto for an evening seminar and had some time to kill. Now being March, it's just like November only you get cruelly teased with a few nice days only to have a two week stretch of awful weather. I pushed my film to 1600 to get more out the light I had. Camera: Rolleicord IV K3B, Schneider 75 f3.5 Xenar lens. Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600 ISO, HC110 B.