Snowplow working on northbound Spadina Crescent, February 8, 2013.
I really should have held on to this photograph for another day. Given that there's a two-day-long snowstorm forecasted to begin tonight, I would have looked like a Magnum-class photojournalist for capturing the storm on film and having it available so promptly. After all, the only thing I'd need to do to make it newsworthy is change the caption.
Still playing with perspective, this is the side-on view of stairs that I also photographed digitally. I took two different versions with my film camera, but I preferred this one to the photo with deep focus even though it didn't flatten space in quite the same way.
Sadly, the data back for my F5 doesn't imprint the shooting information the way it should, so I don't officially know what aperture this was taken at. I'm going to guess that it was at f/1.4. On the bright side, since the data imprint doesn't work, there's absolutely no downside to setting the aperture via the lens. Obviously this will only work on my AF-D lenses that I use on my F5, and not on the AF-S lenses for my D800, but I find that I have remarkably little psychic confusion between these two cameras, even when I'm using them both at the same time.
While it was the colour of this scene that caught my attention, I think I like the black and white film version better.
There's a huge difference in composition between this and the digital version, since one of the 50mm lenses had only half of the field of view of the other, but equally striking is the difference in how the city looks when colour isn't captured.
