Bill Smith's Photography

 Jo-Anne and peeled off from the group after lunch Saturday and went for a hike in Limberlost Nature Preserve, one of my favourite happy places. We chose a shorter hike around Clear and Turtle Lakes but the network is designed as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" and scale up to a really long hike if you wanted to. We both are introverts by nature and need some downtime from the crowd.  I also had a chance to shoot with my Nikon AF-D 20 F2.8 prime lens, it's almost an essential for landscape photography as you can tell with the last few images. The F100 was the perfect camera to roll with while hiking, easy to use and you still have the sophisticated matrix metering system sort of 80% of an F5 without the heavy chassis.  As you can tell we were two weeks early for fall colours in the Northern Muskokas and Algonquin Highlands. You roll with what you have and enjoy the early fall day.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Eastman Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 proc...

 While up on my weekend photography retreat, I managed to shoot two rolls of Kodak Vision 250D, the really cool subject matter in this, is the Fall Manager at Billie Bear owned a vintage speedboat from Deerhurst Resort and it looked gorgeous. The Vision 250D needed a bit more work in colour grading in Lightroom along with bumping up the exposure a wee bit. All that said, the results look nice here. Stay tuned for the walk in Limberlost Forest.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Reflix Labs spooled Kodak Vision 250D, ECN-2 processed by Graination Lab. 

 Oh damn, shooting colour film through a Nikon F100, it's like playing Doom back in the 1990s with cheat codes, I've never seen Kodak Gold look so damn good. Makes me re-think what gear and film stock I'm bringing up next year to NLP.  Camera: Nikon F100, Nikon AF-D lenses.  Film: Kodak Gold 200, processd by Graination Lab.