What are your favorite places to shoot in Toronto? Then try a different format/ratio/camera/stock and do it all over again. Just shoot and shoot and shoot until composition is like breathing. I've taken great photos on cardboard instant cameras, shitty old Polaroids and point-and-shoots. The body is just a box with some bells and whistles that lets light in to hit a sensor or film.
The most important thing on a camera that people overlook is the lens. In the end, it really doesn't matter what you use. I have one of the weird 80's MF rangefinders (Bronica RF645) that makes shooting at that detail as easy as a carry-around camera.
I'd read somewhere once that a medium format shot was equivalent to 50 megapixels, a level of detail still unmatched in consumer/affordable DSLR's. It just picks light up differently, warms up dull real life a bit.Īlso the detail with shooting medium format film is insane. Expired stuff, Chinese film off ebay, different grains etc. I find the uncontrollable variables in film part of its charm. It's also pretty easy to just point and shoot with 2 speedlights all metered automatically, taking all the challenge away and making photographers lazy. Personally I also find digital flat and contrast-less without some post processing work of course. You forget just how the scene looked until you see the negatives next week and you're like "yeaaah! it came out great!" There's something to the waiting with film. It's never going to be just what was in your mind, so you shoot it again.and again. Sure it's convenient, but I find that you are constantly disappointed because you can see your photo right away. It's rewarding in a way when you are good at the "art" of it and it turns out for you.ĭigital is shit. Now, doing the odd fashion shoot, I will work in film and trust that I only have to shoot it on 15 exposures. There's a shitload more skill and confidence involved with shooting film properly â I never went to school for anything photography-related.just learned from doing as is the case with most things. I had to sell my digital SLR after Henry's jacked the interest to 35% â that and nobody pays photographers anymore, so I said fuck it. I noticed that you often shoot with film, what is it about the medium that you like? And how do you think it differs from digital when telling a story with your photos? It's got the classic glass focusing back with the black hood but it's small enough to use a medium format back with, which is still pretty convenient and cheaper than going over to large format. I guess I'd have to say my old 50's Graflex Century Graphic camera. What is your favorite piece of camera gear/equipment right now? Why? But I always have a camera of some sort on my person, so whatever kind of catches my eye. I'm really into classic portrait sittings these days. What is your favorite subject matter to photograph?
But I've always been framing things in my mind if that makes any sense. I had been working on music until it went dry about three or four years ago, and thought I might try my hand at photography again. I dinked around, and some of it must have stuck. Back then we still had arts budgets a bit in high school so we had a darkroom, which was great. My father handed me his Minolta film SLR when I was young. How long have you been taking photographs, and what made you want to pick up the camera in the first place? It's the least creative work I've ever done, but it pays for living and the stupid things to make living a bit better. I work at a pretty menial graphic design studio, which is what I went to school for.been doing it long enough to know I don't want to be anymore.
#Bronica rf645 flickr series
In light of such local talent, every Saturday we feature the work of a Toronto-based photographer in our series "Toronto through the lens of."
#Bronica rf645 flickr professional
In addition to being one of the most photographed cities in the world, some of the best professional and amateur photographers out there can be found roaming our streets with camera in hand.
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