After about two weeks of prowling the night time streets, I finally finished my first roll of Fujifilm Natura ISO 1600 film last week and had the it developed that Friday afternoon at Kanota. I spent my Saturday alternating between playing with my daughter and scanning the strips of film. Saturday night I killed myself post-processing until Sunday morning. And guess how many keepers I got? Out of 36 shots, I was only contented with 9. What a terrible yield rate! I reviewed all of my shots from the roll and the first thing I noticed was that I had a lot of repeat shots, it seems I've been very concerned about not getting the correct exposure, which I think stems from my previous experience of busting what could have been a perfect shot save when I scanned that particular frame, it was horribly underexposed, which I attribute to me metering to close to the light source.
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| I took three shots of this particular scene in three different exposure settings. All of which turned out fine and perfectly processable through Aperture. |
Another thing I noticed is how trigger happy I have become even after pledging to a goal of minimum filler shots. I have repeatedly told myself not to press that shutter release unless I am fully satisfied with what I see in the viewfinder but I just was not able to help it, I let the shutter go more times than I wanted to with no feelings felt, just wasteful, useless excuses to hear the M6 breathe.
Well, I have another roll of the ISO 1600 film and last night proved to be a test of self-control to me. I thought I did well, initially, as I was able to capture what I thought was a beautiful feeling with just one shot. However, I left the scene repeatedly convincing myself that my hands were steady when I released the shutter as I took the shot at 1/15 seconds. I wanted to take another shot at 1/30 seconds but my goal of high keeper rate won over me. I just hope I lost to the right goal. I didn't fare well with my self-imposed sanction going though the rest of the night but I thought I shouldn't be too hard on myself.
Here are the remainder of my so-called keeper shots from my first roll of the ISO 1600 Fujifilm, the photographs are also featured in my Photography Page with titles. I hope you enjoy them.
