So I got my first roll of test film back from Richards Photo Lab, and to tell you the truth I’m surprised anything turned out. I was using a Kodak 400TX, 50 1.8 lens, 1982 Nikon FG 35mm and my not-so-hot-skills at manually focusing.
Since I’m keeping this learning experience real and telling you guys everything it’s kinda refreshing. Going from digital to playing around with film is hard. My Nikon d700 became a part of me, I knew when I was nailing my exposure without even thinking and I could change all of my settings with my eyes closed. I know how far I can push my camera/lenses and trust my auto focus to do a good job. With film, its kinda like handing me a camera and telling me I have to use it one handed and blind. But at the same time you’re excited to see what comes out of it…so it’s thrilling. You have no idea and you just have to trust your math and the moment you hit the shutter.
The first five photos are from Andrea and Andres wedding back in September. To tell you the truth, I actually thought I was shooting color film. Haha. Yeah….I’m special and didn’t look at what film I was loading. It was a learning experience, but I really like the few photos I took. Their wedding started the roll of film and I took a few photos every time I had a shoot.
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I wish I would of taken more durring Courtney and Chris’s engagement shoot. They were really excited to see me pull out my film camera, and stayed really still for me while I was trying to manually focus at 1.8 since it was getting dark. <3
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The few photos I took of Shayda and Andy are my favorite. In that spot I was working with some pretty, but funky colored light…and if I shot it from the wrong direction I would have 4pm light shining directly into my lens. But again, I’m so glad I brought out the film…two of those shots are in my top favorites for the entire shoot.
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Since I got really anxious to send the roll in, I started taking photos of things in my office. The first picture is of my workflow board. After working with so many couples, I started writing down all of the steps for each wedding on scrap paper…and then quickly realized I needed to have it displayed so I could always be remind of what I need to do. It’s just a white board with yellow electrical tape. And for the other two photos, I own about 20 broken film cameras…I started collecting them about a year ago and they line the shelves in my office.
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I’m still trying to take just a few film shots at every shoot I do, and feel free to remind me. Sometimes I just get so excited of what I can see on the back of my camera I forget. I can’t guaranteed it will work, but its worth a try. 🙂
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Candice
I hear ya, sister! I BUSTED out laughing at the end when you said “I got excited to finish the roll” because I can’t tell you how many times I have done that, past and present! But NOW sending it off to RPL you gotta think about ALL of those shots! puts a new meaning to “the money shot”. BAH. Sorry sorry, I’ll keep it clean.
Anyway, I LOVEEEEEE these! The roses are GORG! Can’t wait to see more, how fun that we are into film! 🙂
I started with film so it’s very awesome and interesting to see a photographer start in digital and then pick up film. I am a huge fan of film, medium format and black and white, put them together and you have a winning combo! I’m glad your roll came out with photos you loved even if you thought you were shooting color.
Awesome post! I’ve been making a workflow chart for myself and I keep having to revise and redo the entire chart because somethings out of place or I need to add something else in… would you mind sharing what you have on your workflow chart?? THANKS 🙂