Beer Parlor Project 5.0

On Friday August 4th Chris and Connie travelled up to Edmonton and stayed with us at our place.  We headed over to the Tofield Hotel that evening, for another edition of the Beer Parlour project.  This would be Beer Parlour 5.0, the fifth location visited on our tour.

These two shots were both taken with my Ebony 4x5 view camera on Ilford HP5 film, rated at 320 iso and developed in 510 Pyro.  As the light was very low, and the shutter speeds quite long, I had to ask the subjects to remain very still.  Mostly it worked out.....

The crowd shot was taken at about 5:45 in the afternoon.  I used a 90mm lens.  The exposure was F11.0 at 1 second.  There is a little bit of motion visible in some of the people, but mostly it is pretty good.

The second shot is a portrait of Lana.  She is a local and a long time patron of the establishment.  Her boyfriend used to live at the hotel before he passed away.  She comes in regularly for a glass or two of wine and to visit with her friends and neighbors.  I shot her portrait at about 7:00 in the evening with a 210mm lens.  The exposure was F9.0 and 1 second.  She did a pretty good job of holding still as well.