stophoto's photostream  

website: www.chrisprefontaine.ca

blog: stophoto.tumblr.com/

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Contact me directly at:
prefontainech[at]gmail.com
403-850-8791

I have been really into photography for 25 years now! It is the only thing I have done this consistently for this long. My interest and love for the craft only grows with each year. I don't know why I love it so much.

I learn so much and am inspired greatly by looking at other peoples work.

I also really love the equipment! I very much enjoy researching and learning about all the different kinds of equipment, new and old. Each lens has a different personality. Each manufacturer has pros and cons. Each one has a time and place where it is ideally suited. I love searching for new equipment, trying it out and experimenting to get new results. I know the camera does not make a good photographer, but it can certainly add a new "flavor" to the look. Like going from clean and crisp digital files from made from a pro Canon set up, compared to a 60+ old lens used in old spy planes together with 4x5 large format expired polaroid film... it is DIFFERENT!

I have recently started shooting film almost exclusively. It has slowed me down and caused me to approach each shot so differently. I was shooting way to many photos with my digital camera. Just "spray and pray". I have really loved the authenticity of the results with film. I found something just wasn't "true" about spending hours in Photoshop adding "dirt" and character to the overly clean digital files. I love film because it creates unpredictable effects which often results in an artful quality I never achieved with digital. Maybe that is just my own perception, but I have enjoyed it none the less.

Thank you to anyone and everyone who takes a moment to check out a few of my photos! I have no other venue to show my stuff, and it is a lot of fun to receive & give feedback to this interesting community of like minded photographers!

Cameras I am shooing with:

Rolleiflex 2.8e - medium format
Hasselblad 500 c/m - medium format
Sinar F1 - 4x5 large format
Speed Graphic - Pacemaker - 4x5 large format + legendary Kodak Aero Ektar f/2.5 lens
Cambro - 8x10 large format
Leica M6 - 35mm
Pentax LX - 35 mm
Canon 1DsMkII
Polaroid 195
Konica Autoreflex A - 35mm
Polaroid SX-70
Polaroid 210
Polaroid Impulse
Lomo - Lubitel 166b
Cmeha Smena 8m
Konica Autoreflex 3T
Pentax Spotmatic
Exakta VXIIa

** Lots of wonderful and interesting prime lenses to go with all of these bodies! I have only two Canon L zoom lenses (16-35mm f/2.8 L, and 70-200mm f/2.8 L), otherwise everything else is a prime!!