These are the “lost” images that I was referencing on twitter the other day. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but they eventually made it home. The thing is, I loaded the film in hopes of shooting it in the summer of 2010. I then traveled down to Australia and New Zealand without the film, came home, made it through the rest of winter and then rediscovered it. I couldn’t remember what I had loaded. ISO, film type, colour, black and white, negative, positive, none of it was ringing a bell. Since I only had 2 speeds of film I averaged that it would be about 300 ISO and started my guessing there. You see, with my 4×5 camera that I built out of wood, I don’t know quite what the field of view is. So I have to guess. I do know that the aperture is somewhere around f/216. I also know that my light meter works, so I can tell what the exposure time will be at f/16. Taking that into account, I use this handy chart that I made to calculate my exposure time for the pinhole.
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Landscapes
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Jul 11
Another 4×5 Experiment
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May 11
New Zealand
I started watching The Lord of the Rings the other day and I remembered when I rode a horse through what was, Rohan. Yes, I am a nerd.
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Mar 11
Tasty Tuesday #19
This Tasty Tuesday is from a very long time ago when we chopped a few trees down for some power poles. This was shot on film using my mom’s old camera and I found the film about a year ago. I scanned the pictures and then forgot about them again until recently when I found them on my hard drive.
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Feb 11
Bondi
I hoped to have some fashion pictures for you this week but they won’t be ready for at least another month. Why? Simple, they haven’t been taken yet. In any case, here is a panoramic stitch that I took while I was in Australia. This is a composition of probably 6 pictures. What do you think?
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Feb 11
Inukshuk
Near the beginning of my trip through New Zealand, my girlfriend and I took a train down the north island from Auckland to Wellington (12 hours) and then, the next day, hopped on a ferry that took us to the south island (4 hours) and then another train, on the same day, to Christchurch. The following day we were on a bus, for about 9 hours that took us all the way to Queenstown. It was a long trip, and me being as sick as a dog made it feel even longer. We stopped at Lake Tekapo (seen in the “Northern Hemisphere” post). I took some time down at the lake front to reflect. It was then that I took a few pictures of the area and then started to make my way back to the bus. However, on my way back I noticed that the rocks were perfect stacking rocks. I stopped and had a quick look around and found 4 or 5 great spots to leave a bit of Canada behind. So, I started stacking and made an inukshuk.
I hope that in doing this, another Canadian, on another bus, found this and thought of home. I know that I would.
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Jan 11
Photos By…
One photographic aspect of my life that I’ve been struggling with for the past couple weeks is my editing. That is, narrowing down which images are the best, worst, alright, etc. I have been trying to decide on a couple of pictures for the “Photos By…” competition that the Victoria Boulevard Magazine hosts each year. It’s purpose is to focus on more personal images, rather than professional work. In that case, I’ve chosen to go with some images that speak as to what I’ve done over the past year.
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