This shot is fire!
Do you expose for the highlights or expose for the shadows when shooting a 8 foot tall bonfire after sunset? I just received 4 very different roles back and scanned from Midwest Film Company. The first is this roll of Fuji Superia 400 that I shot during a team bike trip to Floyd, VA for the Appalachian Journey gravel race. There are a few I really enjoy from this roll but the bonfire pictures are definitely my favorite. Happy to get a new portfolio shot from one of the first roles I have gotten developed this year. This was also the swansong of the camera I shot it on, the coupling mechanism that tell the light meter what aperture is selected broke, which makes using a flash pretty tough and forces you to shoot meterless in manual mode. That’s ok, and while not a huge problem, and repairable, the Minolta X-570 I was shooting with isn’t the nicest to use and is only worth about 100 bucks. Ultimately it’s going onto the shelf as a parts body and giving me the go-ahead to upgrade to an older, but sturdier XE-7. I have a lot of nice Minolta glass and it’s worthy of shooting on a more pro level body.
Obviously the lens, a Rokkor 50mm 1.7, stays in active rotation. Also in the mailbag from Midwest Film was a roll of HP5 shot at an art show, a roll of Vision3 250D shot in St. Lucia, and a roll of Fuji Vivid 160T. Shots from those coming soon.