film photography
I’m happy to now be offering hybrid shooting, a mix of digital and film. You can add film into any package, right in the booking form. We’ll have a chat before your shoot to decide on a mix of colour and/or black & white film, 35mm or 120.
35 mm
35mm slots in easily to the day, I shoot quite organically, and will alternate quickly between digital and film.
120 medium format
Shooting 120 really slows me down, the camera is fully manual and takes a second for me to focus, frames become very deliberate and considered. This works better when we have a relaxed timeline without any rushing between locations or onto the next part of the day.
Why shoot film? The nostalgia of film has made a big come back. There is something so beautiful and raw about film grain, and the way light and colour is captured in the emulsion that can never be replicated by digital. For me I become more purposeful and deliberate knowing every frame has a cost to shoot and develop. There is also the anticipation from not getting to see the photos immediately, getting the scans back is a little bit thrilling.
I learnt photography on my Mums old fully manual 35mm film SLR when I was in high school. It was a tank of a camera, a Russian Zenit B, I still have it, it still works. Dad got me a Canon 35mm SLR and it was a total dream, it had auto focus. I shot on this camera for years through high school and university. Uni was where I started shooting 120 medium format, almost all my assignments were shot on Mamiya 120 cameras.
In my very early days of weddings I shot them totally on 35mm film.