Luchadores #3
Here are the remaining photos of Luchadores shot on Harman Phoenix 200. You can see some of that red splotchy grain I spoke about last time in the shadows of skin tones.
Luchadores #2
I shot these Luchadores at Mexifest on the original Harman Phoenix 200. Apart from the punchy contrast and saturated colors, this film struggles with skin tones. You won’t see it here because the images are too small, but up close, there is a lot of red splotchy grain on the skin, particularly in the shadows. […]
Calgary Farmyard #2
These photos from Calgary Farmyard were shot on a roll of Agfa HDC 400 that somehow managed to get twisted inside the cassette when I tried retrieving the film for developing. It’s easy to retrieve film from a 36-exposure roll, but 12-exposure rolls can sometimes be a little more challenging given the extra room inside […]
Calgary Photo Walk
These are from a long photo walk I took one day from Eau Claire, through Prince’s Island Park, across the Bow River, to the top of McHugh Bluff… and back again. I shot these photos on Harman Phoenix II 200. This film is definitely an improvement on the first version of Phoenix (which I’ve shot, […]
Around Town on 110
I shot these photos around Calgary over the course of many photo walks using Lomography LomoChrome Color ’92 Sun-Kissed 400 film. I have to say, I don’t know what to make of this film. Many of the LomoChrome films have failed to impress me (I’m looking at you Turquoise!), but I kind of like the […]
First Photos on Kodak Kodacolor 100
Here are a few photos I shot on Kodak Kodacolor 100. I bought a couple rolls of this film on the day it was released and shot a roll soon after, but it’s taken me this long to develop and scan the negatives. I’ve always liked Kodacolor 200 aka ColorPlus 200, so I’m not surprised […]
Calgary Fire Rescue
The weather on July 1st last year (Canada Day) was sunny and hot — a perfect day for rafting on the Bow River. I snapped these photos of two Calgary Firefighters as they boarded their rescue boat and prepared to patrol the river.
Downtown Photo Walk #4
I came across this apartment building on one of my photo walks downtown. I shot these photos on an old, long-expired roll of 220 film, Fuji Super G Ace 400. These photos make a great use case for a polarizing filter. As I moved around the building attempting to capture all the artwork in my […]
Abandoned Construction
I’ve driven past this construction site a number of times over the last few years and have always found it odd that no progress has been made. I finally gave into my curiosity and stopped to take a few photos. The construction site is fenced in, but there is a parking lot next to it […]
Lion Dance
These photos are from Canada Day 2023. I was walking by City Hall when I spotted this Lion Dance about to take place, so I joined the crowd. I shot these photos on Fuji Eterna Vivid 160T, a discontinued motion picture film that I wrote a review about last year. I really like this film […]
Calgary Farmyard
These are from a family outing to the Calgary Farmyard. It was a day of mixed blessings. These photos (shot with my Fuji GS645S) turned out nicely, but I discovered that my newly acquired Olympus XA2 was broken.
Shelby
I photographed these Shelby cars – a 1970 Ford Shelby GT350 and an AC Shelby Cobra 427 – at the Traffic Jam Car Show last summer.
Pigs & Frogs
I photographed these pigs and frogs (games called hog hoofers and froggers respectively) at the Calgary Farmyard.
Carifest Parade
I took these parade photos a few years ago at Carifest, a three-day festival celebrating Caribbean culture in Calgary. The photos have a slightly warm tone to them because I had just finished shooting a roll of tungsten-balanced film (Kodak Vision3 200T) and forgot to remove the 85B filter from the lens when I loaded […]
Massey-Harris Tractor
I photographed this Massey-Harris tractor at the Calgary Farmyard. On a previous visit, it was in a fenced-in field and I couldn’t get close enough to photograph it except from behind. I used a roll of decades-old Fuji Super G 800 film that I had previously tested to determine that it was best shot at […]
Traffic Jam Car Show
These cars, two different De Tomaso Panteras and a Ford GT40, were part of last summer’s Traffic Jam Car Show, a fundraiser for the National Music Centre.
The Trouble with Scanning Redscale Film
The trouble with scanning redscale film is that the scanning software will try to correct for the red and yellow color cast in the images. The resulting images are often washed out and grainy and require manual correction to get the expected redscale look. I use VueScan and Negative Lab Pro to scan and convert […]
