It’s a beautiful spring day and I was excited to take the Fujifilm Instax SQ6 out for a spin to take some landscape test shots as promised in my unboxing video and blog post. I have not shot on one of these instant film cameras in a long time but I had nine shots left in one of the film packs and I wanted to have them all count today, so off we go on a photo adventure.
Backstreet trees and road – SQ6 Landscape
The first place I wanted to go was this eerie wooded area off this rarely used back road that had some interesting trees – they look far creepier in low light and fog but I wanted to take a photo of them anyway to warm up. Landscape mode enabled and 1st photo down but while walking back to my bicycle I saw an interesting slope in the road and before I knew it I was laying down in the streets looking to frame the shot just right.
Ferry shots auto and landscape mode
Two shots down, 7 to go. I rode around a bit but couldn’t find anything interesting so I decided to get something to drink and unsurprisingly I ran into one of my students – I seriously cannot hide on this island. After a short chat and a drink, I switched to my car and headed to the port to get a photo of the docked ferry. I had only been out less than an hour and I was already losing my blue sky and things were getting hazy. Across from the port, I snapped 2 shots of the ferry because of course I forgot again to put the camera in landscape mode for the first one so took another one to see if there was any noticeable difference. I liked the 1st shot in auto a little better.
Shinto shrine x Pokemon
From the port, I drove to the largest shrine on the island. I wanted to get a shot with the lines of the tori gate. I took shots, again comparing auto with landscape mode but this time landscape mode was much better.
Because walking around with pokemon in your pocket is a perfectly normal thing to do I whipped out the OG starter set of Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle and this is where I noticed an issue. I am not sure if I am just failing to understand framing and I have tried with and without my glasses but the framing always seems off compared to what I am seeing in the camera vs the printed photos. I’ll have to experiment a little more with my next set of photos.
Now for the shots and my feeling about each. Let’s just say the adventure started well but ended badly. The trees and road pics are by far the best followed by one of the two ferry and shrine tori gate pics. Of the three pics, I struggled to get framed right of my pokemon friends only one was barely usable! Leave any questions or tips in a comment below and check out my Youtube channel for videos of my hobbies and travels.
