travel – Page 2 – Resonant light

I’m not a great fan of Tri X – too grainy for me. However it was recommended for the darkroom course because it’s easy to develop and tolerates inexactness in temperature. I could see as soon as I laid the developed film strip out on the light box that I had overexposed pretty much every shot. I also had a lot of shots where the focus was off. No idea why. Usually I’m ok with the Olympus. And then looking at the scanned images I got back from the lab in Manhattan it all looks pretty nasty. I don’t think they did as good a job as Michael’s Camera House back in Melbourne, who perhaps have learned to correct for my deficiencies. There also seems to be a slight light leak, still, despite having paid almost $300 to get Olympus serviced just before I left.

Ahh well. It’s still the first roll of film developed by me since my early 20s and there are some shots that are ok-ish. The first bunch I took on a day trip with some friends outside Toronto and the rest are of Bushwick, around Maria Hernandez Park and Myrtle Ave.

So the date is wrong on this post, obviously. I was in Boston from August 17-20. Still new to blogging and I edited a practice ‘first post’ instead of deleting it and making a new one. Never mind. I’m definitely not one of those people who reads the instructions first. Just dive in I say, and figure it out as you go 🙂

I really liked Boston. Not least because I spent time with my cousin Roger and his wife, who I haven’t seen for 27 years – they were just as lovely as I remembered – but also because of the fantastic architecture. We walked about 10 miles, or 16 kilometres on Saturday, up through Beacon Hill and then along the Freedom Trail and over the river into Charlestown. All of these photos were taken with the Fuji x100T.