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Post by unclebill on Mar 31, 2006 11:32:49 GMT -5
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Post by kamera on Mar 31, 2006 19:34:19 GMT -5
Bill,
Some interesting shots here...I like!
They seem to have a slight sepia tone. What film did you use? And did you convert to sepia?
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by unclebill on Mar 31, 2006 19:53:36 GMT -5
I used Ilford FP4 125 and I scanned the negs with a Canon flatbed scanner with the standard RBG as there is no black and white setting. So the Sepia though not in all my photos is sometimes a happy accident after scanning.
Bill
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Post by John Parry on Mar 31, 2006 21:45:18 GMT -5
Bill,
Particularly liked the second shot - like it very much!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Apr 1, 2006 6:13:50 GMT -5
Nice set of pictures, Bill. They've got a sort of vintage look about them, maybe because of the slight sepia tone from scanning in RGB. It really suits the subject.
Like John, I like the second shot best. I'm quite fond of single point perspective. It doesn't always work, but when it does ... and it does here ... it can be very effective.
Normally I would like to see a person or a vehicle or something like that in shots like these, but here the emptiness of the scenes brings out the feeling of a big country.
Peter
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Post by unclebill on Apr 1, 2006 7:27:50 GMT -5
I like the second shot a lot in this batch myself. I had a cousin who came over from London England to visit for Christmas about 15 years ago and wanted to drive to Montreal for the afternoon from Toronto. I think it sank in how big Canada was when I told her it was a 5 hour drive at roughly 120km/h or 75mph or the equivalent of driving to Edinburgh from London. Where I took these photos is not that far from home about an hours drive. Go say 2 or three hours north and its real big country as in you won't be seeing anyone for a long time.
Bill
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Post by PeterW on Apr 1, 2006 11:27:30 GMT -5
Hi Bill,
The only time I've been to Toronto was many years ago on a flying visit (literally) on a stop-over on the way up to Timmins in February for cold-start trials with British Leyland. Boy, that was COLD ... minus 42 degrees C around 4am to 5am, which were the times when we did the six day trials. About all I remember of Toronto is the airport and the Tower, which we had time to go up. Marvellous view from the top gallery.
We flew up from Toronto to Timmins in a light plane and I really got a feeling for how big Canada is. We flew for what seemed hours over seemingly deserted, and probably was deserted, woodlands and scrub.
While we were up in Timmins I took an afternoon off to hire a car and drive up to see Abitibi Falls and the paper mills. Falls? They'd only just qualify for rapids anywhere else! The paper mills weren't very exciting either. More exciting was keeping an ear open for the loud air horns of the big articulated logging trucks hauling complete tree trunks. They would bomb along long straight roads of hard frozen polished ice at about 60mph, and not a hope in hell of stopping, so it was a case of get out of their way or get flattened!
Peter
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Post by unclebill on Apr 1, 2006 20:45:52 GMT -5
While the North factors on Canada's collective psyche, the country is in reality a sideways Chile stretched along the American Border. The odd thing while we are best known for Tundra, igloos, really cold winters, we are one of the most urbanised countries on earth and we can get really stinky hot Summers.
Bill
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