Best of 2011: Shooting Film
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Best of 2011: Shooting Film

2011 was the year I really delved back in to film. Yes. Real, tangible, old-school film. It was one of the best things I’ve ever done for my photography. I rented the beautiful Contax 645, purchased my own Canon EOS3, and blogged all my adventures and experiments along the way, from comparing film vs. digital to comparing photo labs. My…

Jenny & Kevin | Little Tokyo | Los Angeles Anniversary Shoot
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Jenny & Kevin | Little Tokyo | Los Angeles Anniversary Shoot

This is an anniversary shoot. It’s also a story of love and family and Thanksgiving. It was just over a year ago that we were all gathered in Southern California for Jenny and Kevin’s beautiful wedding. I was their official photographer, and we were also there with our brand new videography company Seaglass Cinema, which…

Matching Digital to Film | Richard Photo Lab | Shooting Film, Part 5 of 5
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Matching Digital to Film | Richard Photo Lab | Shooting Film, Part 5 of 5

If you’ve been following my blog and the Shooting Film series, you may know that I’ve been documenting all sorts of unscientific experiments in my venture into film. Part 5 was originally going to be about getting started in film, but I figure you can just go to Jonathan Canlas for that. And instead, I’ll…

Spring Colors of Atlanta | Kodak Portra 400 | Shooting Film
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Spring Colors of Atlanta | Kodak Portra 400 | Shooting Film

The warm air wrapped around me as I walked down the street in Virginia Highlands and headed out in the beautiful Atlanta neighborhood to take some photographs– on film. Here are a few of my images on Kodak Portra 400, with a couple more black and white frames from the previous roll as well. Love…

Atlanta in B&W Film | Kodak 400CN | Shooting Film
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Atlanta in B&W Film | Kodak 400CN | Shooting Film

Shooting black and white film has a whole different feeling than color or even digital black and white. The image itself comes out wrapped in a thin blanket of nostalgia. And being committed to black and white for 36 frames at a time forces you to see the world in a different way, hyper aware…