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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.

Tensets

Jordan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:19 +0000

Mike Johnston over at The Online Photographer has a post up today about photography website design and the painful navigational hurdles that some photographers impose on their website visitors. He proposes the idea of “tensets” –selections of a photographer’s 10 (self-chosen) best and most representative images, displayed clearly on the “landing page” of his or her website as a way for visitors to quickly get a handle on what the photographer is all about.

I actually put together a Top 10 set of my own on Flickr a few months ago, and Mike’s post motivated me to revise it. Should it go here on Photosensitive.ca?

Cemetery Statue

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

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

Fall Colours

Jordan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:42:15 +0000

Fall colours in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto (resting place of many famous Canadians, including several former Prime Ministers).

I took this on a very pleasant Sunday afternoon walk with the family using the Rolleiflex 3.5E on 2007-dated Provia 100F film. The film was obviously stored well — I can see no evidence of fogging or colour shifts.

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.

Flower Fingers

Jordan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:52:01 +0000

A flower growing in our front garden — originally taken with the Nikon D70s, then processed in PS as a “split-toned” B&W image through the magic of the Select Colour Range tool.

Crossed leaves

Jordan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:12:14 +0000

Posted as-is from a drugstore scan (1500×1000 pixels) of cross-processed Ektachrome GX film. The scans were mostly blown out, but I liked the look.

They say that Kodak film works “best” at cross-processing. I have a lot of 120-format Provia lying around, so it might be time to test that hypothesis.

I shot this at a local park with the good ol’ Nikon F90 and 50mm f/1.8 lens. For all you Torontonians — I bought the film (expired 2006) for $1 at a camera fair last year, and had it developed and scanned at the Shoppers Drug Mart at Eglinton and Chaplin for $3. Talk about a cheap thrill!

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.