Royden & Jiayin
A couple of months back, I hosted a Giveaway with The Wedding Scoop. I got readers to ask me any questions with regards to film photography. The winners walk away with a sponsored photography session. Royden & Jiayin happened to be one of the winners. Their question was simply this…
“I believe the beauty about film photography is that you won’t be distracted by what you just shot, and focus will always be on the next shot. But do you face issues when communicating ideas to couples especially when you can’t show them ‘samples’ of what you just shot? And how do you know that you already have got what you wanted”
Here was my answer…
The common philosophy for most film photographers is to “just shoot and move on”. The folks at Lomography even coin up this term “Don’t think, just shoot”. Essentially, they are both based on the same fundamentals of film photography. Suffice to say, film photographers are not meant for just any wedding couples. Wedding couples who engage film photographers must accept and above all trust the photographer as their art director and image creator. After all, the blue print is only in photographer’s mind. As a working photographer, that complete trust is actually what is needed to really bring out the photographer’s creativity in full force. Yes, communication becomes key here. You have to get the chemistry right.
The session was filmed entirely on Kodak films, more precisely the Kodak TRI-X and Kodak Portra 160. The colour shots were taken on a Lomography LC-A 120
