I began my photography experience with film, and when digital format came out it seemed like a dream come true: take thousands of photos and you can view them without ever having to pay for them to be developed. Talk about living in the future.
However, like others, I have found myself missing something tangible. I've found a lot of joy in printing my own photos on a Canon Selphy Printer and a Fujifilm Instax Camera. I recently purchased a vintage Canon AE-1 camera, and I had a wonderful time visiting Longwood Gardens and taking photographs.
This isn't something I would advertise as part of my wedding packages, but I intend to photograph a roll of film at each wedding. Since I'm using vintage technology that is over 40 years old, and could not work correctly at any moment, I'm hoping to leave it as a surprise addition to my full day wedding coverage.
The thing about film is it requires a lot of patience. You take the pictures, and you need to finish a roll of film before you can rewind it. Then it gets mailed off to a film developing center. Ah, the anticipation builds as you await notification of your images being ready.
Here are a few photographs I took using a Canon AE-1 with Kodak 400 color negative film. For this role even though it is 400 speed film I went ahead and set my camera to a speed of 320. I was very pleased with the results. I did a lot of experimenting with light, and not all of my results were pleasing to me. But, what fun is there in art without a little experimentation?
