THE PROCESS

Why and How I Mix Film + Digital

SHOOTING WITH INTENTION

A typical roll of 35mm film allows for around 36 exposures, or images, unlike digital cameras which have memory cards large enough for thousands of photos. With film you also won’t know if you’ve got the shot until you get it developed and scanned unlike digital which you can instantly check what you have captured.

These are some of the aspects of shooting film which taught me to slow down and very carefully consider the frame and scene I am capturing. Something I now practice whether shooting film or digital.

This translates to more “keeper” images on a job or project, images that feel intentional and full of detail, purpose and emotion. This results in curated and handcrafted galleries which beautifully and concisely tell a story without 900 “filler” images.

EMULATING FILM ON DIGITAL

For the past 6 years, replicating the look of film with digital images has been a borderline unhealthy obsession of mine.

I have spent countless days working to perfect my methods of removing the sterile, clinical look of digital and replacing it with the soft, nostalgic look of film.

I do this to ensure cohesion across my body of work which consists of both digital and film whilst keeping the two ever so slightly disconnected so that they are discernible.

One of the benefits of my techniques is that colours, most importantly skin tones, stay true to life. Unlike common heavy-handed editing techniques that wash out or distort colours, leave skin tones funky and bake in a very trend specific look.