Visual Journal: Exploring the streets of Fremantle, WA

May 22, 2025

Fremantle in Western Australia is a sleepy port city town.

A fantastic place to walk around and take street photos. A haven for street and urban explorer photographers. It’s got a mix of old colonial architecture along side contemporary Australian architectural style of buildings.

I’m starting a little “visual journal” series of posts to share photographs and brief stories of photo walks and interesting place I’ve been. Some will be throwbacks into the photo archive. Some might be from recent walks.

I’m a bit of a Fujifilm camera fan girl.

Been shooting with Fujifilm cameras for the last 9 years and love how compact my camera setup is. Great for travelling!

Back in Australia, I used to host casual photo walks with for a photography group called Fuji X Aus. After COVID lock-downs were lifted in Austalia, we started to kick off our walks again.

We kicked off our afternoon photo walk in the quiet side streets in Fremantle, then meandered our way to the sea side.

Camera setup for the day

For this photo walk, I challenge myself by just “seeing” and shooting in JPEG and trying out a new Film Simulation Recipe

Photographs in this post are all straight out of camera photos based on Fuji X Weekly’s Kodachrome II Film Simulation recipe.

Classic Chrome
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlight: +1
Shadow: +2
Color: +1
Noise Reduction: -4
Sharpening: +1
Clarity: -2
Grain Effect: Weak, Small
Color Chrome Effect: Strong
Color Chrome Effect Blue: Weak
White Balance: Auto, +3 Red & -4 Blue
ISO: Auto, up to ISO 6400
Exposure Compensation: +1/3 to +2/3 (typically)

Photos were taken on my Fujifilm X-T4 and the Fujifilm 23mm f2 lens. One of my favourite go-to combo for street photography shooting.

Visual Journal

The photo walk started around 4pm so the afternoon light was fantastic down in Fremantle.

It was very experimental more than anything. I didn’t get any keepers shots, but I really enjoyed the process of just getting out there to shoot for fun and with the intention of sharing the images in JPEG.

While I did shoot JPEG + RAW, it was mostly for me to be able to compare the unedited JPEGs straight out of camera with editing my raw images.

It’s been a while since I walked around Fremantle.

I always enjoy photographing the mix of old and new buildings as well as some usual suspects like the wharf and ferris wheel.

My favourite creative image of the day the one below.

A silhouette of the trees in the reflection on the window. The warm afternoon light shining upon the colonial architecture Esplanade Hotel was also pretty neat, especially contrasting that against the blue sky.

I thought it would be fun to do a compare and contrast between the Kodachrome II Film Simulation JPEGs straight out of camera with no editing, against the edited RAF files.