Recent Street Portraiture
I don’t take a lot of street portraits, so accumulating enough for a post takes some time. Here are several recent ones, all shot on film. This is Mateo, who commented on my camera, and we talked photography for a few minutes. I placed him in front of this plain background. I found him a […]
SF Street Photography on Film
Because I’m shooting film much more than digital of late, I took my film camera into San Francisco a week ago and took photos at a Chinatown street fair, on Market Street, and around Yerba Buena Center. It was a different experience from shooting digital, mainly because, unlike with digital, there’s no immediate feedback: I […]
Choosing Limitations
When I decided to take my film camera to the “We Fight Back” march in San Francisco on January 19 in San Francisco, I got to experience the limitations photojournalists faced back in the film era. No autofocus. No auto exposure. One focal length at a time with primes. No burst mode. No SD card […]
Two Cameras, Two Looks
Because I want to end up with silver gelatin, black-and-white prints that I do myself in the darkroom, I’ve begun shooting film alongside digital when I do a portrait session. I used both cameras when I photographed a friend recently at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Getting images that are in sharp […]
Charlotte in Mono and Color
In my recent portrait session with Charlotte, I used both my digital color camera and my film camera loaded with black and white to get two different looks. The color images benefit from capturing her beautiful, natural red hair. They’re also much easier to process and alter—which should come as no surprise to anyone who […]
Back to Film
Like many photographers in my age cohort, I shot film for decades before digital came along. Also like many others, I did some darkroom work back in the day, developing and printing black and white film. But I hadn’t shot film in probably 20 years … before buying a film camera a few months ago. […]
