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Joel & Carissa on Polaroid, It’s the Future!Monday, January 16th, 2012

Blogging two days in a row? That is unheard of! A record I won’t be breaking anytime soon I am sure.

I wanted to share a Polaroid photograph I created of Joel and Carissa. I created this at their wedding reception in Orem, Utah on Saturday. A few months ago I bought 2 Polaroid CloseUp cameras – one is for black and white film and the other one is for color photographs.

The past year has seen a number of changes for my shooting style. I have been seduced by the novelty of film and Polaroid film is probably the most unique film out there.

Joel & Carissa on Polaroid Film

To each of my weddings, bridals, and engagement sessions I have been bringing along at least one film camera and often one Polaroid to snap a few photographs. I am definitely seeing the world a bit differently when I shoot film. My hope is to create a unique look for my clients.

In most cases I will scan the film into my computer and then send the client the original Polaroid. In the future I will probably just hand the Polaroid over to the client and they can have a truly unique one of a kind photograph of their very own.

I have a few more Polaroids that I will be posting. Brides have been head over heals for the look. Everyone likes the vintage look and feel. I can imitate that in Photoshop, however, there is a certain magic feeling that a real Polaroid or film photograph contains that can’t be captured digitally.

For those that are curious – Polaroid the company no longer makes the film for Polaroid cameras. There is a new company called The Impossible Project. They are the masterminds who have reverse engineered the film to work with Ye Olde Tyme Polaroid cameras. I just call everything Polaroid since that is what people think when they see this film.

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Bought Some New Rolls of Film – Trying New (Old) ThingsTuesday, March 29th, 2011

Right now this is more of a personal project than a service that I am offering. I am experimenting with different types of film. Yep, you read that right – FILM!

I am not giving up or abandoning digital photography. I am hoping to added film as a creative tool to my photography. Much like an artist may use oil paint one day and then water color the next I am hoping to achieve the same thing. Film has a look that is unique and some would say more organic. Digital photography benefits from being more versatile, faster, and cheaper.

Film benefits from the grain, color, and the nature of the emulsion. I have a list of about 8 different color films that I am experimenting. Once I have the films I like I will be using them in my wedding photography on occasion.

Fujifilm Pro 400 H and Fujifilm Superia 200

Currently there is a real boon in wedding photography – and there are a LOT of photographers. And at times – everyone’s photographs look the same. They all use digital, they all use Photoshop, they all use similar or the same techniques to process photos. I am thinking that adding a bit of film to mix it up will help make me a bit more unique.

And it is entirely possible that people will never notice that I am starting to feature some film in my wedding photography – but I think that will be the fun experiment.

Oh, and I ordered another film camera – you can get them for dirt cheap! Woo hoo!

And I will try to avoid sounding like a snotty “purist.” I have heard a number of people claim that film photography is the “pure” form of photography. Pardon my french when I say that is bull pucky! There is no pure form of photography. Everything is a paint brush from what lens we use, to what camera or film we use. Whether we spend time in the dark room or in front of the camera we are all manipulating images to our own artistic vision.

Anyway, I will get off my soap box for now.

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Salt Lake City through a Holga Film CameraThursday, January 21st, 2010

Imperfection, thy name is Holga!

I received a roll of film back from the lab (they forgot to make prints) and they had the developed film scanned to disk. I’ll pick up the prints tomorrow. And I am really enjoying the photographs that are created with my imperfect film camera. Yes, right now it is a toy – but it is camp, it is old fashioned, and it has it’s own character.

You can even seen that the camera has developed some light leaks – there is some red light that is getting through on the top left and there is some white light on the top right. I might have to seal the camera up with tape to minimize the light leaks – but I also like them. If I wanted perfection I would be shooting digital.

Salt Lake County Building

I think I need to have a spin with my medium format camera next – I haven’t shot with the Bronica for a few weeks and I don’t want to get rusty. Maybe after the Sundance film festival – cause I won’t have much time photographing while Sundance is in full swing.

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Showing off my first Holga photographMonday, January 4th, 2010

For the longest time I have been curious about photographing with film and more specifically I have been curious with photographing with a Holga camera. The Holga is an imperfect camera which takes imperfect photographs. But that i the charm of the camera.

Well, I bought one and then for Christmas I received one as a gift – so I now have 2! And here is the first photograph from the camera. It really is everything I was hoping for.

Winter snow with a holga

You can see a bit of a vignette around the photograph. The edges are also a bit smudgy and blurred. I did learn that it doesn’t work very well indoors. I had tried using a flash attached to the camera’s hotshoe and the photos were still dark. But for shooting outdoors it is great.

And since I have 2 Holga cameras I use one for black and white and one for color. I haven’t shot a whole roll of color film on a Holga yet but I think this week will be perfect to do so. And I want to try this on some people.

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Salt Lake City through film photography and at nightTuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Another roll of film is back from the photo lab! This has a few photos from the recent photowalk that visited Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.

These film photographs look amazing printed out – I really love the black and white photography that my film camera creates. Can I do better with digital? Probably. But the film does have a unique vibe that I can’t describe. And I didn’t have to do any photoshop work on these photos. It just cost $20 to process the film, get prints and have the film scanned to a disk.

Salt Lake City Temple as captured on black and white film

I am going to be practicing some people photography soon with my film camera. Since it is manual focus it’ll require a little patience but I think it’ll be fun. Maybe I can have an all black and white photo shoot with a victim – I mean volunteer.