brainwood
Registered Film User
I've been a bit quiet on RFF recently as my latest project has taken up so much of my free time but as its Rangefinder related I thought it was worth sharing.
A few months ago my niece asked me if you would photograph her wedding. She knows my work and she also knows I'm not a wedding photographer but she was quite persuasive and I agreed. As she asked because she liked the look of my film work the decision was already made to shoot on film in black and white using the two Leica bodies I have - the IIIg and M2.
On the day keeping a mental track of two meter less bodies often with different speed films and different focal length lens proved a taxing test. I'm used to working at my own speed but this something you can't really do at a wedding otherwise you just miss so much . Luckily I had only 1 roll out of the 10 rolls I shot that I managed to expose at the the wrong speed but as thankfully I realised before the end of the roll I just carried on and pushed the whole roll from 100 to 400. The guests were very tolerant of the eccentric uncle with his funny little film cameras, in fact many were intrigued by whole idea of shooting on film.
Most of the wedding was shot on APX100 as much of the reception was outside plus Formapan 400 for the interior of the church and later in the evening, with a roll of Delta3200 for the first dance.
From the rolls I shot I selected about 120 shots for scanning , these were then edited down to 86 which I printed into a 36 page Hahnemuehle A4 book which documents the day.
In addition I shot the formal shots on my old Canon D60 and managed a few formal portraits on Portra 160 with a Fuji GS645 by the end I was knackered and much everyones amusement fell asleep at the end of the reception
My niece and her husband are very pleased with the results which is great reward. I am not intending shooting any more weddings like this it was very much a wedding gift to them
Understandably they don't really want to make all their wedding photos public but heres 3 of my favourites to give a flavour of the book
Chris
A few months ago my niece asked me if you would photograph her wedding. She knows my work and she also knows I'm not a wedding photographer but she was quite persuasive and I agreed. As she asked because she liked the look of my film work the decision was already made to shoot on film in black and white using the two Leica bodies I have - the IIIg and M2.
On the day keeping a mental track of two meter less bodies often with different speed films and different focal length lens proved a taxing test. I'm used to working at my own speed but this something you can't really do at a wedding otherwise you just miss so much . Luckily I had only 1 roll out of the 10 rolls I shot that I managed to expose at the the wrong speed but as thankfully I realised before the end of the roll I just carried on and pushed the whole roll from 100 to 400. The guests were very tolerant of the eccentric uncle with his funny little film cameras, in fact many were intrigued by whole idea of shooting on film.
Most of the wedding was shot on APX100 as much of the reception was outside plus Formapan 400 for the interior of the church and later in the evening, with a roll of Delta3200 for the first dance.
From the rolls I shot I selected about 120 shots for scanning , these were then edited down to 86 which I printed into a 36 page Hahnemuehle A4 book which documents the day.
In addition I shot the formal shots on my old Canon D60 and managed a few formal portraits on Portra 160 with a Fuji GS645 by the end I was knackered and much everyones amusement fell asleep at the end of the reception
My niece and her husband are very pleased with the results which is great reward. I am not intending shooting any more weddings like this it was very much a wedding gift to them
Understandably they don't really want to make all their wedding photos public but heres 3 of my favourites to give a flavour of the book
Chris
