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Chateau Laurier

Jordan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:19:27 +0000

Not much time for photography these days — but yes, I am still alive. Taken on expired Ilford XP2 Super with the Rolleiflex.

Hillcrest Park

Jordan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:56:04 +0000

“Fine art” photography has taken a back-seat to family photography lately, but I am still alive.

Rolleiflex 3.5E, late-afternoon June light, Kodak Tri-X 400, developed in Rodinal. This combination is too grainy in 35mm for my taste, but it works well in 120.

Cemetery Statue

Jordan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:08:46 +0000

Another image from my productive afternoon of photography at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Swamp

Jordan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:05:58 +0000

At the Don Valley Brickworks, a little marshland oasis tucked into the middle of the City of Toronto. I’m not quite sure what to think of this image — part of me is very drawn to it, but part of me finds it very distracting.

Taken with the Rolleiflex on Fuji Acros film, guesstimated exposure, developed in Barry Thornton’s two-bath metol developer.

Gone to pot

Jordan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:50:58 +0000

Plants for sale at a local store, earlier this month.

Toronto Skyline

Jordan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:44:33 +0000

Sunset over the Toronto skyline, as seen from the Polson St. pier last weekend. This was taken on Fuji Acros with the Rolleiflex, which was securely mounted on my big heavy Manfrotto tripod. Exposure time was about one second at f/11.

On-ramp

Jordan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:34:28 +0000

Another picture from the one-roll project, taken with the Nikon FG and Sigma 18-35mm lens on Efke 25.

Split Tones

Jordan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:59:45 +0000

Trying to make an interesting but non-overwrought rendition of lilies in B&W by starting with a colour image (from the Rolleiflex, Fuji NPZ film) and doing selective B&W conversion to tone gradients based on colour ranges. Enough Photoshop-speak for you?

Wheel of Light

Jordan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:59:19 +0000

I’ve felt a bit uninspired lately, so I decided to kick-start what’s left of my artistic brain by giving myself a project.

For about a week, I carried around a deliberately limited rig (the Nikon FG loaded with a single roll of ultra-slow Efke 25, mounted with a slow and somewhat unsharp Sigma wide-angle zoom). Rather than rattling off pix at every opportunity, I tried to take just a few carefully chosen photographs each day.

I’m still going through the results of the One-Roll Project, but so far I like what I see.

This was 35mm Efke 25 film developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 5 mins at 18C.

Hillside view

Jordan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:54:02 +0000

From our recent short jaunt to Wakefield, Quebec. I mostly shot colour film on this trip, but did manage to squeeze in two rolls of Neopan 400 that I then massively under-developed (in Instant MYTOL).

I’m 95% sure that the problem is with my thermometer, which seems to be reading everything 3-4 degrees colder than it should. In the meantime, I scanned the negs on the Epson 4490 and rescued them in PS as best I could.