We vacationed pretty hard this summer. I mean, don’t we always? Any chance we could get we were packing our bags for the next adventure. And I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way. This summer was a season of discovery for me, and I picked up a medium format film camera (A Hasselblad H1) for the first time in a few years. It felt good. It was freeing. It taught me patience. It taught me to take it all in before pressing the shutter. Yes, everything that comes with shooting film is real. It’s an authenticity that is really tough to find behind a screen.
For once in a very long time, it felt good to just go in whatever direction I wanted to. To shoot for me. With no destination or goals to accomplish or business plan or any of that. Just me and my camera, making mistakes and learning along the way. It brought me to a fork in the road and made me question the way I shoot and the tools I’m using to tell what I see. More on that later …
I joined a fun group of like minded creatives as we set out to document our “summer on film”. The assignment was easy. Shoot as much film as you could manage, share the images, and print them to have them forever. So that’s exactly what I did. I took my camera and a few piles of film on every trip we had. I made time to shoot a roll here and there. I played with a bunch of very different film stocks. I established a relationship with the best lab in the land, FIND. Ok, I may be a little biased but for someone that was looking for a little bit of guidance they were just the perfect fit for me. I even shot a few rolls of Portra 400 & Fuji Pro 400H on a few paid/client shoots, and had some of my images shared by the big daddy of film, Jonathan Canlas. Yes, I was pretty humbled. I’ll share more of those in the days to come.
So here are some of my favorites, a hardly touched a jumble of film stocks and lighting situations and perfect in their very own way.
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