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Why I still shoot a test roll first

Jul 08, 2026 · 4 min read

This is placeholder body copy — replace it with your own writing. Every new setup gets a short test roll before anything that matters gets shot on it. It sounds old-fashioned, and it is, but it still catches the same problems it always did: a light leak, a metering habit that's drifted, a lens that needs to be checked.

No. 012 — replace with a real photo and caption.

Add as much writing as the post needs between images — a paragraph, three paragraphs, it doesn't matter. The layout doesn't care how much text sits between figures.

And a closing paragraph or two to wrap up the post — followed, if you want, by one more image to send the reader off on.

No. 016 — an optional closing frame.

Duplicate the <figure> or .gallery-row blocks above for each additional image, and swap the placeholder gradient class (pg1 through pg6 in the stylesheet, or your own class) for a real <img src="..."> tag once you have photos to drop in.