Film photo a day project roll one is back! Wow, I’d forgotten how grainy Tri-X 400 is, although the non-adjustable metering of the Olympus XA2 isn’t doing me any favors. I suspect I could improve some of these by rescanning, but that takes a lot of time on my ancient Epson photo scanner.
There’s a bunny hiding in the photo of the front of the house/front yard.
My A-11 flash that attaches to the XA2 is broken, and I could really use a flash for this project on some days. Maybe I’ll nix my “same camera” rule so I can use one of my other Olympus compacts that has a working flash when I need some light. (I have an original Stylus Epic and a few Stylus Epic zooms that I picked up from a thrift store when I went to visit a friend in California).
My original thinking was that forcing myself to use the XA2 with no flash and 400 speed film would make me be more creative in my choice of subjects and compositions, and to a certain extent it has – but it’s also made me feel more annoyed and guilty when I realize at the end of the day that it’s too dark to take anything outside and there are few locations inside that work with no flash.