Spring in Oakville Part Two
Life comes back the deeper we get into Spring. Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F, SMC Takumar 55 f1.8 lens, 200 f4 SMC Takumar lens.
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Spring in my Backyard.
I live in Oakville Ontario, have been for a long time, downside photography close to home becomes close to impossible due to familiarity. This year I forced myself to shoot more close to home in my travels. Time to embrace #lifeinthe905. Camera: Asahi Pentax Spotmatic F, SMC 55 f1.8 and 28 f3.5 Takumar lenses. Film: Lomography F Squared 400 (Ferrania Solaris 400)
Oakville In January Two
Wandering around Oakville on a grey mild January...... Camera: Leica M3, 50 f2 Collapsible Summicron lens. Film: Rollei Retro 80s, Rodinal 1+50
Oakville in January One
It's been a gloomy January, and a mild one. I heard Vancouver and the Lower Mainland got our winter for a change. I got a chance to try out a freebie roll of Rollei Retro 80S courtesy my friend John Meadows. This was an Agfa aerial surveillance film, very fine grained, while not an infrared film, it's IR sensitive, meaning a slow speed lousy day film. Camera: Leica M3 DS, 50 f2 Collapsible Lens. Film: Rollei Retro 80S, Rodinal 1+50.
Photographing Oakville
I have always found shooting close to home difficult, being a long time Oakville resident I get jaded with the local scenery. This Summer I decided to shoot close to home and hopefully see something a little different in my own backyard. The other thing I wanted to do is start a hashtag #lifeinthe905 just to see if I can get some traction with it in various networks and channels with other photographers outside the city in the GTA. Now, the gear, I used an Asahi Pentax SV, it is a mechanical 35 mm SLR made from about 1962 to about 1968. It is a marvel of mechanical engineering and design. I own two them, the black one below and a chrome version. They are pretty cheap online film shooters looking for a zen experience love them, either you use a hand held meter, the clip-on version if it works or roll with the "Sunny 16" rule. For film I used Kentmere 100 which is a budget black and white emulsion that when processed in D76 looks fabulous. Camera: Asahi Pentax SV (t...