Paparazzi, Paparazzi…the taunts seemed almost to be sung as I grabbed a shot of two women walking across the street. They don’t bother me, besides I’m far from a paparazzi photographer, these two women are not famous nor am I going to be selling these photos. Besides I can barely hear the voices over the History Extra Podcast about Richard I and the Third Crusade.
Having just come from a beautiful photowalk in the High Park Area I had some time to kill before meeting up with my buddy James at Trinity-Bellwood Park to head up to the Dakota Tavern to catch the Silver Hearts playing live so I popped down to Downtown Camera and picked up another roll of film to load up and do some street photography as I walked along Queen Street.
I don’t practice Street Photography that often, I have to feel in the right mood, the camera I have has to sit right and the film has to suit the light. The film I ended up grabbing was Rollei Retro 400s a film I hadn’t ever used but my gut was telling me this would be a good film to use in the slowly dying light of downtown Toronto.
Some of the people whom I caught on film noticed me, well with the gear I was using there really wasn’t any surprise, there’s a reason many street photographers prefer the smaller silent cameras to the bulk of a professional SLR. I flashed a quick smile which was returned and then I was gone, carried on west by my quick pace the camera settled back into my arm waiting to be used again.
And it just goes to show…that in the long run, I’ll leave the stars to the paparazzi, for me, real people are more interesting.
Nikon F5 – AF DC-Nikkor 105mm 1:2D – Rollei Retro 400s
Kodak TMax Developer (1+4) 9:30 @ 20C
Epson V700
Adobe Photoshop CC (2015)