Man, that trompo at 6am hits different!

Man, that 45 minute thing is everywhere and I think it's because people only talk about the sleep cycle length and skip the part where you have to actually fall asleep at the right time to land at the end of it. If you lie down and take 15 minutes to drift off, you wake up right in the middle of deep sleep and feel like garbage, which sounds exactly like your two weeks. The 10 to 20 minute nap works better for most people because you never get into deep sleep at all, so there's nothing to drag yourself out of.

Curious what you do when the light gets even harsher than noon, like shooting straight into the sun with no shade anywhere. Does the Portra still hang on or do you start metering for the shadows and letting the sky go? I keep hearing people say negative film has like two stops of highlight room over digital but I want to know if that holds up when the sun is actually in the frame. Also do you rate the 400 at box speed in that kind of light or pull it a bit to protect the bright stuff? Trying to figure out if I should just stop babying my digital and treat it more like film, or if there is a real wall you hit that film gets over and digital does not.