My name is Andrew and I am a fine art wedding photographer. When I have some spare time I write the blog and test various film. This time I decided to go ahead and go professional - Kodak Portra 400 Medium format, what could be better? For the last 2 years I shoot mainly this film but I quite often push it by one or two stops so collecting all these samples was not an easy work. I will post my pushed results in other articles and here you will find only the Portra 400 shots w
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). I shoot film and digital however this article is about film photography only. P.S. I assume that my reader is interested in film photography and this is why you are reading this. I do not want to go to basics here so I assume you know different types of film, you know what it means to push and pull and you know what is 35mm film and medium format. All the mentioned features
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). In my spare time I work on different projects and one of my recent projects is a casual film test. This article is going to be about quite popular film - Kodak Tmax P3200. I have learned about this film quite recently. I knew about Ilford Delta 3200 and I already reviewed it last year. But this film was new to me so I did quite a lot of research to find out more about it and
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). I shoot film and digital and this post is going to be about a very new medium format film - CineStill. It has all started after I accidentally found CineStill reviews on YouTube. I was not much interested in it at first since I mostly shoot in a different style but then I thought it would be a good challenge for myself to try something new. Mostly because of this curiosity I
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). In my spare time I work on different projects and one of my recent projects is a casual film test. This article is going to be about the most popular portrait film Kodak Portra 400 pushed to ISO 800, or by +1 stop. While working on one of my projects I decided to try push for the first time in my life. This is really scary when you do it for the first time while working on a
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). I shoot film and digital and this post is going to be about the most popular film among fine art photographers - Fujifilm Pro. To be more precise - Fujifilm 160NS. This photo shoot was arranged quite unexpectedly and I had to decide quite quickly which film should I take with me. Fuji is always a go-go film that you can trust and rely on. However this was my first time with 16
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). In my spare time I work on different projects and one of my recent projects is a casual film test. This article is going to be about the most popular portrait film - Kodak Portra 400. I was lucky enough to meet Paul and Edel on their wedding day several years ago. Back then I had a video studio in Ireland and I filmed their wedding which was amazing by all means. Five years l
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). However whenever I have free time I spend it creating various projects related to photography or film. One of my projects - testing various 35mm and medium format film and posting my results online. This time we are going to have a look at Kodak GOLD 200... When I came to Ireland in March I did not expect such an amazing weather. I had a pre-planned photo shoot at the Atlant
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). In the weddings I work mainly digital and medium format but in my spare time I like testing various films and share my results with other people. So here we go... the 35mm film review: Kodak Colorplus 200 The idea to review this film came to me when I was in Ireland enjoying amazing sunny days and quite a warm weather in the middle of March. I just finished several photoshoots
My name is Andrew and I am a fine art destination wedding photographer in Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi). In the weddings I work mainly digital and medium format but in my spare time I like testing various films and share my results with other people. So here we go... the 35mm film review: Fujicolor C200 Once upon a time I was in the queue in one lab waiting for my scans and I noticed that the lab had quite a lot of customers with Fujicolor C200 film (they literally had bags with