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). 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
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 Portra 800 Since I have just posted a very similar review of the Kodak Portra 800 medium format it will be hard for me not to compare those films side by side but I will try. First I shoul
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 my favorite portrait film - Kodak Portra 800. I have decided to test the full potential of this film so I arranged the stylish photo shoot in the Provence studio with a beautiful model Agnesa, my amazing daughter Sofija and a professional make up artist Rita. The florist we involved was a well known master of her art