Moments in Time with the FujiFilm X-T2 and Acros Film Simulation

For some time now I have been making a personal effort to capture Footscray as I see and experience it so that I can hopefully preserve my own memories of it. My time in Melbourne is quickly coming to an end due to our impending move to Oxford in January. Through my ~5 years living in Melbourne's inner-west I have come to love the elements that make up this place, particularly my home suburb of Footscray. It has an incredibly rich cultural history that has served as a new home for migrants from all over the world and each culture has made its mark on the architecture, food, and character of this wonderful place. Unfortunately, as the area gentrifies I am sure some of the suburb's history will be lost as the facades of streets and generations move on.

This is my first post using the new FujiFilm X-T2 but it's not intended to be a review post much like many of my others. I've had the camera since its first day of release and I am yet to fault it. Fuji have taken the few niggles and irritations of the X-T1 and produced a truly phenomenal camera that can hold its own and then some against the big boys. I'll save that review for another week though.

This entire post is devoted to a weekend of shooting for enjoyment and moments, of which I have captured using the Fujifilm emulation of Acros. All of these pictures are Straight Out Of the Camera (SOOC) JPEG small with either AcrosR or AcrosY used (sorry, I don't remember which ones) and have +1 highlight, -1 shadows, +2 sharpening, and strong grain effect. I used the XF16, XF35 F2, and XF56 1.2 for various shots featured.

UPDATE (next day) Apologies if you read this when I had Astia written down instead of Acros, which is what these are using. I was trying to be productive yesterday after a day at a rather nice winery (pictured) and made some mistakes on here. I have also added in a few other Acros JPEGs where I have pushed the shadows out to +4, which is a look I really dig. They're at the bottom of the post.

A massive shout-out to everyone I got to hang and create with over the weekend, particularly Dragan and Ann. What was set to be a casual photo-walk turned into an amazing afternoon and evening of learning new street portrait skills from Dragan, and passing on some of my more posed portrait skills to him after we bumped into the ever awesome Ann. Ann is a bad ass martial arts actress who stars in the new Hard Target 2 film. Check her out!

Cheers!
Mathieu

The photos below are also using Acros but with Shadows at +4.
They were all shot with the XF35F2