An ancient woman sells little daily essentials — from ballpoint pens to Panadol pills to soap and boiled sweets — to office workers from a makeshift stall in the shelter of the Bristol Building, on the corner of Prince and York Streets, in the Colombo Fort, Sri Lanka. September 2016.
Mounted Crossing Guard
Morning rush hour on York Street in the Colombo Fort, Sri Lanka. October 2014. Canon EOS 600D and EF-S 18-200mm lens at 200mm, 1/500, f/5.6, and ISO 400.
York Street, Colombo Fort
August 2014. iPhone 4S at 42mm (equivalent), 1/60, f/2.4, and ISO 64.
Mounted Patrol #3
Sri Lankan mounted policeman — a legacy of the island’s British colonial history — on traffic duty on York Street in the Colombo Fort. Shot with a Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 and Kodak Tri-X 400 film, with a MC 35-70mm lens, at 35mm, 1/1000, and f/3.5.
Kodak Express
Millers Building, York Street, Colombo Fort. Canon EOS 600D and EF-S 18-200mm lens at 60mm, 1/160, f/5, and ISO 100.
Mounted Patrol #6
York Street, Colombo Fort. Canon EOS 600D and EF-S 18-200mm lens at 200mm, 1/500, f/5.6, and ISO 400.
Mounted Patrol #5
Two more shots of the traffic cop on York Street in the Colombo Fort, this time taken with a DSLR. The first pic is actually a metering shot I took with my 600D of the scene so that I could shoot it on film with the Yashica. I posted a scan from the Kodak Tri-X film last week on my blog if anyone wants to compare film and digital. These digital files look a bit overexposed but that’s because I lowered the contrast when editing. The original was very high in contrast since I had boosted the ISO to 400 to match the film speed when metering, but unlike the film scans, digital RAW files are much more forgiving and one is able to still recover a lot of detail from the shadows and highlights. Canon EOS 600D and EF-S 18-200mm lens at 18mm, 1/1000, f/3.5, and ISO 400.
50mm, 1/400, f/5, and ISO 100.
Mounted Patrol #4
Sri Lankan mounted police on traffic duty during the morning rush hour, York Street, in the Colombo Fort. Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 and Kodak Tri-X 400 film, with a 35-70mm MC lens, at 35mm, 1/1000, and f/3.5.
Checkpoint Ceylinco
The Bristol
Son of the Morning Light 