Shooting In Colour In Montreal

Went bike riding yesterday from Ile Des Soeurs all the way to Mont Royal following the Monteal bike lanes.  It was fun.  Brought with me by Nikon FM10 and 5 rolls of Kodak UC400/36 film that’s about to expire next month.  I’ve never kept film so long that it would expire on me.
So I shot [...]

Fortepan Film No Longer Exists?

I was going through my links from my old site and moving them over to this blog (see right panel) and discovered that Forte is no longer making film.  It seems they seased all film and paper manufacturing.  I read a few posts here and there that it may have been saved.  If anyone has [...]

Belief

This is one of the best first pictures I ever printed myself.  It requires some work because the background was quite underexposed and so required a lot of burning in work.  I think exposure was a full one minute including the burning.  This is the statue found in front one of the churches in Toronto.

Shooting In Groups 2

I was just thinking today when I used to shoot with a group of photographers there were a few of us who had connections.  Or someone had a desire to shoot something that none of us had thought of.  Once we got access to the Woodbine Race Track through someone.  Another time I discovered an [...]

Ansel Adams

For those who shoot black and white, there is no better photographer out there than Ansel Adams(wikipedia) for a number of reasons.  The foremost reason is that he knew how to shoot and compose photographs.  But my best reason is that he knew how to print.
He was one of the few great photographers who knew [...]

Shooting In Groups

My best photography learning experience came when I joined a group of other photographers that I had met on a web site.  These were down to earth Nikonians who only shot Nikon cameras. The first outing was cool, we were all using film cameras and only a couple of us actually carried tripods.  This was [...]

Getting Back Into Photography

I’m finding it extremely hard to get back into photography.  I’m not sure why.  I’m cycling pretty much each weekend, even twice a week now, and carry my camera phone with me.  Sure it’s not the best camera out there, but it does take good pictures.
I figured if I want to start carrying a real [...]

China – Bike Jam

I shot this picture in the Forbidden City in China in 2004.  The forbidden city was a wonderful place to visit.  This photo was shot on Kodak Tri-x film.

Spiral Scan

Once I had finally reached the stage where I understood the elements needed to compose a photograph I naturally progressed to how one looks at photographs.  One of the first things I learned about composure and how to read a picture is that the western world composes pictures differently than the old Asian world.  This [...]

How The Eye Sees

I have bought a number of books over the formative years of photography. As with any teachings, some of the books were good and some were bad. The best books that I read were those by Freeman Patterson, specifically Photographing the World Around You. This book thought me the building blocks of a [...]