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| Cambie St Bridge and Science World. Cropped a lot. |
I feel like this roll had fewer strong keepers than I expected because I spent/wasted a few frames trying to get the right execution of a specific idea. This is my first-ever roll of Portra 800 but at this point I'm pretty comfortable with shooting film so I'm falling a little back into my old, not necessarily bad, habits of taking a few variations of an image before choosing a keeper. I didn't do that with the roll of Color Mission I posted about last week 'cause of how hard it is to get my hands on that film stock and how inconsistently its available.
That being said, I like the keepers that I got and the scans are much easier to work with than the Color Mission scans.
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| Science world from the ferry. |
I wanted to get a shot of Science World from the False Creek Ferry with a bit of the ferry in frame and this is it. I tried it a few times across multiple trips but I think this was the best one. I think the right side of the opening is a smidge too close to the middle and it makes the photo feel kind of cramped. For the record, shooting backwards on a trip from Village to Plaza or Yaletown seems to be the way to go to get this perspective.
The other shot that I wanted to get was of somebody looking out the front of the Skytrain at Vancouver's skyline. Here are a few variations of this one.
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| This one's my favourite compositionally. I like that the guy is actively filming the ride and that the view is largely unobstructed. I opted to level the image based on the outside view rather than the interior 'cause I wanted to emphasize the feeling of the train taking the banked turn. |
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| Similar to the picture above but instead of someone holding their phone, it's someone looking out the window. |
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| From the same ride as (2), but now we're reaching the flat part of the track before Science World. I like this because of the tracks leading to Science World but that's bout the only thing it has going for it. No interesting banked turn, figures feel static. |
And finally, a random photo from that weekend. At the time I only owned a 35mm and 50mm lens for my film camera so I was forced to crop aggressively. I think if I had a longer lens I could've taken a better shot.
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| I think they're working on the Apple store |