First shoot with my #contax645 I took as a practice sesh and this is untouched! The frames from these #headshots are to die for, I’m so in love with #filmphotography again. Looking forward to sharing more and establishing my film brand after shooting digital for 11 years! Beautiful develop & scan by @photovisionprints
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First shoot with my #contax645 I took as a practice sesh and this is untouched! The frames from these #headshots are to die for, I’m so in love with #filmphotography again. Looking forward to sharing more and establishing my film brand after shooting digital for 11 years! Beautiful develop & scan by @photovisionprints
#fuji400h #filmphotographer #filmphotography #filmcommunity #istillshootfilm #kansascityphotographer #kcphotographer #kcmo #mediumformat #filmisnotdead #jessicastromphotography #naturallightphotographer #overlandpark #kcphotography #kansascityfilmphotographer #naturallightphotography
In the last 11 years of shooting digital professionally I became complacent. Lazy. Even dare I say a bit bored. It was too easy to fix errors or fix this fix that after the fact. Clients were complacent too, as a society we’ve come to terms with “You can photoshop that out right?” and honing in on our imperfections rather than our traits that radiate our beauty. We’ve become a culture of shoot now be fabulous later. As photographers we’ve chained ourselves to our computers to “edit edit edit”. I’m tired of spending countless hours away from my family tied to my computer and editing. My editing style is clean and classic, always trying to emulate film when the truth of the matter is while we can come close, there’s a magic in film you can’t replicate digitally. So as I fell down the rabbit hole into the world of shooting professionally on film, I had the epiphany of needing to stop trying to emulate film and actually shoot it. Back to my roots. I am on fire for film. It’s reignited my passion for photography I’ve had since I was a kid. I feel like while I have over a decade of very successful professional experience digitally that in a way I’m starting all over. I’m doing a 180 on my business and I feel new again, but not new enough to feel I need to work my way up through the camera bodies to land on the one I want. So, having never shot on medium format before but being completely ALL IN as I learn, this beautiful #contax645 is my new baby. I know there’s a learning curve but I’m optimistic to pick it up quick as well as with the help of my film mentor @savanphotography We are going places, this camera and me. Thanks for following along on my rebranding and journey into converting my business to film. #filmisnotdead #filmphotographer #ilovefilm #mediumformatfilm #professionalphotographer #treatyoself
In the last 11 years of shooting digital professionally I became complacent. Lazy. Even dare I say a bit bored. It was too easy to fix errors or fix this fix that after the fact. Clients were complacent too, as a society we’ve come to terms with “You can photoshop that out right?” and honing in on our imperfections rather than our traits that radiate our beauty. We’ve become a culture of shoot now be fabulous later. As photographers we’ve chained ourselves to our computers to “edit edit edit”. I’m tired of spending countless hours away from my family tied to my computer and editing. My editing style is clean and classic, always trying to emulate film when the truth of the matter is while we can come close, there’s a magic in film you can’t replicate digitally. So as I fell down the rabbit hole into the world of shooting professionally on film, I had the epiphany of needing to stop trying to emulate film and actually shoot it. Back to my roots. I am on fire for film. It’s reignited my passion for photography I’ve had since I was a kid. I feel like while I have over a decade of very successful professional experience digitally that in a way I’m starting all over. I’m doing a 180 on my business and I feel new again, but not new enough to feel I need to work my way up through the camera bodies to land on the one I want. So, having never shot on medium format before but being completely ALL IN as I learn, this beautiful #contax645 is my new baby. I know there’s a learning curve but I’m optimistic to pick it up quick as well as with the help of my film mentor @savanphotography We are going places, this camera and me. Thanks for following along on my rebranding and journey into converting my business to film. #filmisnotdead #filmphotographer #ilovefilm #mediumformatfilm #professionalphotographer #treatyoself
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