Melanie Gabrielle | Snowy Winter in New York City
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Melanie Gabrielle | Snowy Winter in New York City

I am so excited to introduce my new personal project for 2014: Art for Art. Once a month, I will find a fellow photographer whose work I admire, and I’ll photograph them; they’ll photograph me. We’ll get to see each other work; we’ll explore how different or similar our styles might be; and we can challenge ourselves…

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…

VSCO Film Review | Digital Mimicking Film | Shooting Film
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VSCO Film Review | Digital Mimicking Film | Shooting Film

I had been thinking for a while that someone should just create a set of actions that would make digital files mimic film. Well today it showed up: VSCO Film. In short, VSCO Film is a set of digital actions/presets for Lightroom and Photoshop that take digital raw files and make them look like different…

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…

Oscars Photo Lab vs. Richard Photo Lab | Shooting Film, Part 4 of 5
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Oscars Photo Lab vs. Richard Photo Lab | Shooting Film, Part 4 of 5

After I shot my first few rolls of film, I did a little experiment. I sent one roll to my local lab, Oscar’s Photo Lab, in San Francisco, and I sent the rest to Richard Photo Lab in Los Angeles. Richard Photo Lab is easily the most well-known film processing lab in the country today,…

Film vs. Digital | A Modern Day Comparison | Shooting Film, Part 3 of 5
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Film vs. Digital | A Modern Day Comparison | Shooting Film, Part 3 of 5

Film vs. Digital. It’s become clear that it’s no longer a matter of technical quality or megapixels. Digital is the norm of the industry. In many ways, it has “won.” But there are still a select few photographers who shoot 100% film even today, in 2011, and they are standouts in the industry. Jose Villa,…

Color Me Pretty | Kodak Portra 160 | Shooting Film, Part 2 of 5
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Color Me Pretty | Kodak Portra 160 | Shooting Film, Part 2 of 5

Is there anything more beautiful than getting back to the roots of what drew you to something in the first place? For me, shooting film has been an incredible journey back and a total jolting leap forward at the same time. Shooting film is humbling. You have to get back to basics in your technique,…