Dead lights!!!!!!

Taken with a Pentax K1000 with Lomography redscale film.

Dead Lights is an amazing local band. They describe themselves as Gloom punk. I've tried to come up with a way to describe their sound, the best I can say is it reminds me of some early hardcore punk band playing shoe gaze. I've seen them play twice so far and I have been blown away each time.

On a sad note I took half a roll of film of them playing but I'm still trying to figure out how my stupid flash works. So most of the shots were major photo fails. Oh well you lose some...

More pinhole photography.

Pinhole photography.

Taken with a Diana camera converted to a pinhole, on Ilford's HP5 film

So I had this wonderful original Diana camera that my camera dealer sold to me for a very reasonable price and for awhile it was my favorite camera. Then one sad day it gave up the ghost. I was able to convert it to a pinhole camera but I seem to be having trouble getting the pinhole size right. I'll keep farting around with it to see what I can do.

Taken with a Mamiya 645 on rollie infrared film.

Montreal Metro

Montreal is a beautiful city, but shooting street photography is very difficult as there are strict laws about taking pictures in the street. Basically you can't show faces

Taken with a Mamiya 645.

This is an example of Lomograpgy's B&W 100 film. I don't know who manufactures it or where it comes from and the film has no label. I've had wildly diverging results from this film. Sometimes it beautiful and other times it looks faulty with a strange pattern and even the number from the paper backing showing through.

Busker's on Somerset

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a pentax K1000 on Kodak T-max 400

Taken with a Mamiya 645 on Rollie infrared 400 film

Rapture Day Potluck.

All these pictures were taken on the day the Rapture was supposed to destroy us all. Good Times were had indeed.

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The previous pictures were taken at a Potluck gathering of a bunch of local punks.
I came to the party loaded with a roll of expired Fuji velvia 35mm film and a roll of 35mm
Ilford Delta 3200. The camera was my trusty (though in the last few weeks it has become continuously less and less trustworthy!) Pentax K1000. I started in on the velvia as the light was out in full glory. For the majority of these shots I used a F=135/1:2.8 lens that allowed me to isolate subjects while staying out their space. As the light got low I switched to the 3200 film and faster lens. I am continuously blown away by the delta 3200 film. The man who sold me my first roll warned that this film was addictive, He was right I am now a full blown low light junkie.