My previous post covers all the details of Goodwoods’ 78th Members’ Meeting, and many more images. While I had considered adding these images to my previous post, I thought it might be worth sharing them separately as this is more about photography than the event itself. Getting my head around the Fuji Film system has taken me a while. I’m not sure I’m there yet, but I thought I’d share early as, without feedback, I’m not going to learn as quickly as I’d like.
The camera is an excellent piece of kit, as is the Fuji X 23mm lens I have it paired with. What I’ve found really interesting is that I seem to keep this camera set in black and white. While I can change the colour space of an image in post-production, for me, there’s a different mindset when shooting in black and white—maybe it’s just me reminiscing about the use of film, who knows. Anyway, one of the features of Fuji Film cameras is the film simulations that you can add to the default list. For anyone interested in film simulations, Fuji X Weekly is a brilliant resource.
Having loaded the Kodak Tri-X 400 recipe, I tried to treat this camera as I would a film camera. That is, compose and capture images with the hope of using JPGs straight from the camera. I need to refine the settings more to my liking, as I feel they are too grainy. I also want to explore the Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film simulation, as that was a film stock I used to really enjoy using during my college days.
While I don’t feel these images are great, they give me hope that I can achieve my goal of using the X-Pro3 as a companion camera for black-and-white images. As always, I’d be interested in any thoughts and feedback.
