http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/268 Developing your own black-and-white film isn't especially difficult, but it can be tricky to get the hang of the whole process -- especially when problems don't reveal themselves until the very end. Many of the questions that get asked on photography forums relate to troubleshooting the development process. Here, as a ... http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/262 Another image from my productive afternoon of photography at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/260 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 ... http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/258 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 ... http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/256 Plants for sale at a local store, earlier this month. http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/252 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. http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/250 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. http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/248 Posted as-is from a drugstore scan (1500x1000 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 ... http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/246 Another picture from the one-roll project, taken with the Nikon FG and Sigma 18-35mm lens on Efke 25. http://www.photosensitive.ca/wp/archives/244