Notes from a small camera and a notebook.
These are short pages from the back of my exposure notebook: what a slow lens actually looks like in flat light, why I stopped carrying a second body, and what the contact sheet shows after the walk is over.
- Thirty-five millimeters is wide enough if you take a step back
- Sunny sixteen works because negative film forgives the shadow
- The contact sheet tells you why you missed the frame
- Half a second that sounds like a full second
- Overcast noon is kinder to concrete than golden hour
- Finishing one roll a month instead of carrying three
- The black paint wears off where your thumb actually rests