Fail.

Yes, tonight was an absolute disaster! I decided to head to a spot I had found to shoot the sunset with the big pano camera whilst the heather is at it’s peak. I got there, and had forgotten to take my midge repellent top. No problem, I would be quick… camera out, framed, focussed, light metered the scene, exposure set and fire! Another a couple of stops faster to see if I could bring the colours out… then on with the ND Grad filter and another pair shot.

This was when I noticed that I had forgotten to remove the dark slide. So that was 4 frames of nothing. The midges were out for blood by this point, so a quick frame on the Nikon Z7II and home to reset the camera.

It turns out the dark slide was the least of my problems, I had rolled the film the wrong way and the paper backing was wrapped on the inner side of the take up spool so the whole film would have been compromised anyway.

So two lessons learned. Check the direction of rolling… and put a note on the film back reminding me about the dark slide!

And take a midge proof layer!

The light was borderline anyway… maybe I will try again tomorrow!