Bill Smith's Photography

This was from a roll of Kodak Gold 200, stored at room temperature in my condo, expiry date, unknown, I'm going to say, current, and leave it at that.  I wandered around the neighbourhood with my Nikon FE2 and Nikkor AIS 35 F2 lens and kept things simple.  Scanning into TIF files prior to importing into Lightroom, I was blown away with the previews, granted there were some very minor colour tweaks and cropping the image as well as some dust/space junk removal. Heck it makes you question why you want drop big money on Portra series of films. Again I'm not looking for perfection I want to capture the essence of the 1980s and '90s, not the faded photos when the blue dye couplers give up in family photos but more how they looked when the prints were fresh. Yup, old enough to remember the first time around.  I over expose my rolls of Gold 200 at around 100-125 ISO and I get a lovely punch with colour.  Camera: Nikon FE2, Nikkor AIS 35 F2 lens.  Film: Kodak Gold 200, ...

 Walking back up from the bottom of Roncesvalles at Queen St. you can tell Roncessvalles is an intriguing street, the west side of the street is, my guess over 60% residential with walk up apartment buildings, duplexes and houses while on the east side of the street was retail and restaraunts.  The last time I was in Roncesvalles Village, it was in the before times on a Summer photo walk, back then I was more of fan of the Beaches. This time around while on the photo walk, revisiting with fresh eyes, I noticed street level retail is pretty healthy and has a lot of amenities for a walkable neighbourhood, further afield by Henderson Brewing is a C-41 colour lab, and up on the edge of the Junction Triangle is Film Plus. This neighbourhood is ticking off a lot of boxes as a long term spot to live. In the end, we'll see, I'm not one for jinxing things.  Camera: Nikon F4S, Nikkor Ais 35 F2 lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400 @1600 ISO, Ilfotec HC 1+31.  ...