Now that the snow has (mostly) melted in our garden, we get to see what’s left behind.
Looks like we forgot to pick a Brussels sprout or two before winter.
Tag / Fujinon
Expectation
The town awakens
Tables vessels plates and light
Wine coffee sushi
Toronto the wet
It’s always good to have a few hours to kill, camera in hand. Yesterday was one of those days… I had to drive my son to Toronto for a sports event (where parents were verboten) and that meant I had the day to myself. Met up with my good friend Bruce for lunch, and then ventured out on a cold, miserable, rainy photowalk in Cabbagetown (a funky neighbourhood east of downtown) and into downtown.
No agenda, no preconceptions, just a few hours, my weather resistant X-Pro3 and an umbrella.
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All images shot with the awesomely weather-resistant X-Pro3 and XF35mmF2 combo, processed with the new Classic Negative film sim in Capture One.
It was a dark & stormy night…
Oh, Canada. Here we are, almost 6 full weeks before the official start of winter and it’s already begun anew.
Delays.
De-icing.
Despicable.
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A Sunny Saturday in Ottawa, SOOC
Every Saturday this past October has just been spectacular. I don’t know who to thank for this (or who needs paying off) but WOW. Can we have some more, please?
On this particular Saturday—October 26, 2019, to be precise—I had about an hour to kill around midday, and I can’t think of a better way to kill time than to shoot it (with my camera, of course).
If you’re not a photgraphy geek, just skip the next bit and go straight to the pictures.
Normally, I always post-process my shots in Capture One, taking the RAW files and applying a variety of presets and settings to get to the look that I want. The awesome JPG files generated by my Fuji X-T2 go unused (but not unloved), because I find that I just have more latitude working from the RAW files.
This time around, i thought I’d try working JPG only. After having come across Ritchie Roesch’s awesome Fuji X Weekly blog and his incredible collection of vintage film simulation recipes, I settled on his Kodachrome II recipe and decided to shoot everything that Saturday using only this emulation.
Here’s some of what I saw around Lowertown and the ByWard Market on that lovely Saturday. All images are Straight Out of Camera (SOOC) and have only been straightened or cropped in Capture One. If I was less cockeyed, I could have bypassed Capture One altogether.
So why do I spend all this time post-processing my images? Great question…
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Sprout
Autumn is upon us. The days shorten, the nights cool. Soon the Brussels sprouts will be ready to harvest.
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