One Day One Roll Project | March 2020

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Time for my March installment of the One Day One Roll project. Today’s installment was a great idea, with a couple variables that made for some pretty big fails in a lot of ways. But, as we often have to do, when I let go of all of that, I have a pretty interesting record of our day.

This month, I decided to try a “time lapse” of sorts. This basically means that I tried to take roughly 3 photos each hour during a 12-hour period of time. I was not strict about this. Sometimes I took 1 during an hour, sometimes I took 5. I only took the photos when interesting things were happening, so it’s not a true time lapse. But I tried to really grab the times when normal everyday things were happening, so I’d get a true representation of our day.

Some notes: This was before social distancing due to COVID-19 really took off. Our schools were preparing to close by having “minimal days” so the teachers could prep for distance learning, but they were still in session. This was the very last day any of my kids had friends over. It was a strange in-between stage where we were just starting to realize how much things would really change.

Notes on settings: I started this roll in the dark, and thought it would be a bright day, so I loaded Fuji 400H, because I just had it on hand. In order to get the most of the scene, I used a 17-40 lens, which had some distortion, but did capture the room. However, it also meant I could only go down to f4. I was hoping that would work with the light. The sun never came out, and I was shooting at 1/30 to 1/60 the whole time, knowing I’d need to push the roll. Not ideal for Fuji, but what do you do! Even with the push, most of the roll was flat and underexposed, which I also expected. But it gets the job done after some edits. These were never going to be works of art! Plenty of things I would do differently if I were to do this again, so good lessons learned.

Scenes from this day:

One lightbulb out, two eating breakfast.
One STILL eating breakfast while others finally get up and started on the day.
A couple quiet moments for me.
Homeschool.
A constant state of letting pets in and out.
My oldest coming home just after breakfast with lunch.
Me just trying to get a few minutes of work done when I can.
General mayhem.
Jane and her friends constantly making up recipes and doing gymnastics on the furniture.
Facials.
Me trying to document things as they happen.
The couch in the distance being occupied by each of us in turn.
Target employee leaving for work.
Finally changing that lightbulb.
A strange day where my husband and I eat alone, because they kids have all fed themselves.

A pretty normal day, but now feels like the “calm” before the storm. Who really knew what was coming? Who knows what’s next!