Utah Family Portrait Adventure on Film & Review

I love working with Sadie (her art will knock your socks off), Nick and their girls are exactly my kind of friend-clients. Permissive, up for anything, open and creative allowing us to get into a very out-of-time vibe that’s a lot of talk, talk, photo, snap, chat, walk, notice, create.

We made our way up to Utah’s Snowbasin on opening day when the mountains were transformed to one of Sadie’s imagined snowy scenes and the location and togetherness made for a laid-back family portrait session adventure on film (film notes below)

Thanks for the kind review, Sadie…. (keep reading)

“Ashley has a very open and playful way about photographing. She has an ease about her that makes the person being photographed feel calm- she lends a bit of her confidence if you lack some. She's very collaborative about vision and ideas. She's excited about her projects and can pivot on a dime if some other idea pops up. She's willing to take the time, explore till the vibe you're trying to achieve is accomplished. It feels like her top goal is to give you this timeless gift of these photographs, little snapshots in time that are genuine and deeper in content than the standard portraits. She wants to infuse the images with as much realness and spirit as she can, and she does.” - Sadie

Film & session notes:

Backdrop- Ultraviolet Backdrops

Film- Kodak Gold 200

Camera- Rolleiflex 6001 Professional with 80 mm lens

Film rating & development notes- Box rated the film, set my light meter to ISO 200 and “push” the film 1 stop in developing (+1)

Scanning notes: Frontier+borders at The Find Lab

now+film notes: Into it. I was a lil worried the whites would blast out any detail but no! Love!

Gygi on Film

Snowy drive, hot drinks, a winter walk to the meadow with Gygi. A lil talking, a lil crying, a little screaming in the trees.

These last few years Gygi and I have both lost our parents, connected already, we’ve seen each other deeper as we’ve stumbled at the threshhold of death and experienced the strange rebirth that has come in its wake. Her deep presence. Her deep love of life. The way she inspires me to be. I love you Gygi.

Film notes:

Very foggy, snowy day- first snow. Shot rated at 200 pushed a stop on the Rolleiflex 6001.

Film notes:

Camera: Rolleiflex 6001 w 80 mm lens

Film: Portra 800 rated at 200 pushed 1 stop in development. So that means the ISO is set to 200 and then in development you do this THIS which adds a dollar to the cost. WORTH IT.

Lab: Standard scans at The Find Lab Scan with borders on Frontier