Long Live Film

Banjo playin** Film... it slows me down the cameras themselves... inspire me because each camera sounds different, each camera feels different the when you ask people why they shoot film that primary answer always seems to be like the look you know I love the look of film and while that certainly applies to me, I can honestly say that I like HOW it makes me shoot and WHY it makes me shoot as much as I like the look. ( ( GOOD COUNTRY MUSIC ) ) ( ( GOOD COUNTRY MUSIC ) ) ( ( banjos rocking ) ) the first time I shot film was on a Hasselblad 501 cm and I'd started in school and you had to do a film class and so I got it on and remember holding it and looking down into the camera it was a waist level viewfinder and I was like oh my gosh this is completely different like not saying it's better or worse but just all the sudden you know I just done this zoom lens right through this and of course on the Hasselblad only a 12 shots per back on and instead blasting away like it was when I was learning has like Wow me to be really careful and just looking through like a medium format camera would looking at the ground looks at how different everything looked for a while even when I wasn't shooting I would just walk around with my camera just like pointing at things like wow that looks so cool and wow that looks so different and that's one of my favorite things about shooting film is there's so many different camera types and while the cameras and everything I think some I think the camera tapes can inspire you to shoot differently like if you have a waist level viewfinder all the sudden you're framing a different if you have a square you know you see different shots or if you have a rangefinder where you're not seeing any the depth of field you're seeing everything in focus all the sudden composition become so important because you're not looking at a blurred image up the lineup everything and all all of a sudden i'm looking at the images I was about to make in a completely different way the I'm Stephen DeVries and I'm an editorial photographer here in Birmingham Alabama and I do mostly editorial work, I do some weddings as well but within my editorial work I specialize in a food, travel and portraiture on and you know within that I do fashion lifestyle and stuff but I yes I saw she didn't next year digital comic films always been my favorite and I just captures light in different ways and its allies and to me they're both tools that but having uses Batman films just always been where my heart is gone Darby for budget reasons um as a as a photographer just soreness outside like the physical activity film it makes me she differently do and then you know on top that changes the way they interact with clients whether it's a travel assignment working with a Shetland the sheen wedding portrait it slows me down a lot me to connect with down my Mustang back to the camera all day on and I can really back in a motion to connect with them in a way that allows me to take the photos that I wanna take I it to me much stronger than I can do digital with them I can see everything from syntactic sandwiches might mean camera which is shooting a 67 the perfect format for a magazine page without any cropping actually square format I can even she white lights and she also align see have all the different formats that are no one that changed the way that you think about images change the way we think about storytelling through your images and when you go into an assignment and to travel assignment that can include two important really going to it you can think about is seen and think about how the white much in a wide shot gonna read the scene and housing and translate that seemed to the years in the people that are reading the story it really really changes the conversation how you catch me the yeah man why I shoot film car Anna water reasons probably I am I started on film it's something I've been 10 it comes with my whole life always had a little pull reuter Kodak camera something like that and I just the the processor up shooting in then on where you get that film back and see the surprise and see what I shot as always just been a arnold's really fun experience for me and then and school on college shooting com dumb but first a serious a film SLR and was shooting older tow truck black and white film c41 process a black-and-white film and that's kinda what I really learned on and is getting that back in being able to to see them as I made on film I might never just done anything quite like that than any other in any other medium for it any other format that a shot so yeah films awesome themes are is awesome as I could a good depth to it like a way to Amherst that disorders doesn't seem to have gets the images that a bummer really awesome had like a lot kneeling in like 20 and then you know later discovered that both the moment that although for villages I just don't get it at like excited about the dole images or parity like by getting new whole camera the bill ever I don't know I skip about it there when I shoot a role some just get really excited about it I just I just don't but that's only work but I've grown man when the course things to me is that people in a min they felt the Darby they really care what they're doing today will ship something that they have to put more parents do but they get a better result from it it makes you know me really excited to go out there and great some but I really care urge my name's Padre and my wife and I have a small production company here in Birmingham we do a lot of weddings we do use some music videos and commercials to and we kinda carved out a niche for ourselves doing %uh a mix %uh eight-millimeter film and digital video I shoot film because it had something to especially the leading to the issue debt weekend get any other way we tried on filter is on kinda post production processes to mimic that look really nothing looks like film and when we show the work with you to arise due to potential clients on the CNN is just looks different from the work and other people are going out there I love the warm colors in a stock buy-back to crown 100 as you like to try it the year 200 ASA absolutely love that film love how rich the blacks are love a smooth gradation through all the crazies just a wonderful some stuff we shooting film he makes you consider a little more carefully %uh seen here me to capturing the way lands hitting unjust everything about it because you know debt you have three minutes on this role separate unit had burned 50 seconds on it on the shuttle flight you know something I can't use this application client and I feel like that we see an opportunity here and so on tight end issue a little bit longer takes when shooting film on just because and have been so careful find the shot and one that when a stark warning I don't really want to stop so so the since the film's we've got and has hired first place it was one daughters for for additional pointe shoes first girl time as a graphic designer and so when actually to split into shopping you know vintage out there before their eyes before there's actions something I our stuff okay yes way well at the time I had hell poor on that's it us for help years cooler so took me awhile to realize battery for to get from for answer to shoot it jus intrigue me beyond words is amazing tool and and what how much so I I've embraced instead comments it's there pay for it rush namely hi medium format she polaroids it's a magical Fido see it in your activity they the down him E me yeah so for the main reasons and come back up the main reason I shoot film is it slows me down you know the cameras themselves inspire me because each camp sounds camera you instead they all have characteristics back speak to I'm speak to my vision but also feeling form especially developing it harder by shoot my kids I'm get impatient have got it got it anticipate shot guess perhaps week what happens having be courageous by when that happens trust everything trust me instinct and that poor tile for love back *** work all around she all CA see this were racist that's that's why mom and E saying K in name any film be domain me me mad its so we ran scott cook who runs this RV park here in Colorado enough lol we're dealing in a he's a shooter fashion photography back in the day and he shot them course and he was %ah saying how much you love kodak and everything so I he wanna be a camera but a helical sup to say guy where you take photos are taken photos because or something else I well it was there was a of course if you use the the Kodachrome would be called really high and stuff but nobody could go here to send american that *** called but I use tactical all tags eg bought myself what I would do is I woulda under expose it and push it so that doesn't get both for details dark but actually digital kinda makes you ladies know I do it doesn't make sure ways with your lawn mower cameras do all the work too but like Ansel Adams re tagged as: dared to do well as manipulation in his head and then I'm in the dark so some great stuff on as far as I know being a better photographer would you say with the same you notice your better photography show films you get to see your concentrating on all the details digital you take pictures well I can fix it dark her for voters bottom it was exciting me is like companies do you feel like you know the whole lot of film that to me is like of you know one of the great things about having a large film come tonight we do we're be integrated summer capability motion picture found and an increase can only be opened also decreased the grain the time was just perfect couple years ago we're able to produce quarter for 100 60 Aktar around generate great which increased her interest yeah D's these means on day means windy hyman leading importer photographer here why she 100 percent now she on Kodak color film I love Kodak Ektar temperature 800 in me sack fillers apply asians here sky p really right fiber colored I he'd their work on it yet watched yeah me issue care by home getting the I okay where years well hands he may collide look great money mister and I'm in Tulsa Oklahoma I'm a film photographer and I A shoot film because its for me its easy it stays out of the way its silence part of the equation that makes everything work um I feel like if I can just pick up a film camera I can begin the Nikon p and I wrote riots go out in to shoot there's nothing that's going to separate me from my client for me moment so I i'm I don't connect with digital anything I'm miss this mechanised and when I play I would much prefer playing an acoustic piano then a digital you know would be that way with tired I love the fact that it allows me to be I guess in my emotions who camera it allows me to stay in the moment there's no LCD screen that is demanding that I take a look at it every second of the day you know he keeps me to film keeps me there its minimum like it has sold like it alive I love those qualities other with easy for me to get into film because I just call home but everyone has a father or grandparents mother the some old film camera in the house yeah doesn't cost a thing to get the camera go up by couple rolls go start shooting Bruce so out both from the reasons why she easy its here right alive Sheen film since be another 15 years old and a so my dad Olympus camera which key players back benso do naturally took pictures at each other been transworld yet awesome so that's another thing that the tire being mentally senator pursue it mourned getting to like the technical aspects we to darken class in this the love that yes I did on the past missus like nothing is its you can help it here over K touch its okay hmm he start taking pictures just the CM and minimum a good you just Paris is here Nena by it changes your own technique is so take great photographs but it changes the entire you approach finding the photo you know finding the image that you want to create very few people liked all the provisional as structure shot they have a story where exactly how they want in these go out and execute something that's already in the head and but even people that do that I think the majority of attire his discovery and how you see the world in that one split-second and recognizing and taking a picture did okay so I was a Dodgers game and his star checkmate or something like that concerning year which basically do like Isakson anniversary day the survey is right they do fireworks for the Saturday and make after the game they open up the outfield every comes down to Santa you like to lick the spoon only fair to help cool it saying LCM anderson et StarTek Inc has a prayers I this is so meaning Anna down and the crowd was almost as bright as the fireworks all their phone cameras business me in a like a fun up there video a then I get a ring try again later this year like full blown out there like do look it up some blue screen that beautiful of cornish game in there like senator a basic level prior to going is missing everything in break the majority of people there were doing the same thing be you know there's a twenty thousand people a stadium in Lake 15,000 shared on Facebook the lake here they got out others Google afterwards Dodger Stadium fireworks you pick I people like upsets me Lake many people take more photographs today in history but they don't really appreciate what they're getting home %uh looking down the cameras digital on this whatever have a second year the second you go like this: waiting for something to happen and actually use the United just a click click click the likelihood only fifteen shots *** we r we divide did they get a going home yes I'm tapping you miss me yeah you know and the playing in the film like yes close care in the world bread you know page looking for focusing so both eyes Haverhill now and I had to fix your then all said you ready you're always ready he was he read I K its closer MacBook focus this guy %uh still here you hit that he didn't like by just got that moment when they got me if I was go through the other over to use any yeah he did you look down and I i only to see it because I know it's there and it's permanent only shared immediately to this kid got cation I it's like now I got that it's there I know exactly I got the shot is a cat bond issue discipline as you like yeah I only got 30 shots being a teacher for me check out and then you taking in you just know how good it can be just like up before you click the shutter to go click click click click click that by removing you like not make changes make this better not much change it and then you take a shot where he just clicking Like business-like thing like okay we know it you know I just took like 15 shots I I think I got it wait let me check in in you had a moment but some you you really look see Lance in use but do you really wanna make sure you got it while you're shooting Sharon in in photography for the first year to you digital rocks because I learned it's not seen this film but you're still learning how to use a camera surely I credit digital with making allow me to fall on monthly tight be and then this film like I was I was never saddest the guy was never like love my father I love my did your fashion a narrow toys like this skating about it doesn't look right and every time I see an image in something on tumbler online or something I really really really like nine times out of 10 it was film image and make this is getting out shortly this is ridiculous why am I trying so hard and spending so much time attempting to you recreate something that I like 1i just shooting it could be this scene shot it could be the scene lighting it could be the theme Dec situation I will every single time film over vigil every time matter how much I denied you usually get it close I will always she's the film image he was just late I got the the SAT Reasoning screw this week I'm just going to go I'm just gonna go try my hand at this one out bot Narsi and I just members but in the role and and then and then getting the rollback mine I'll crap you know he but the exact same thing only it's done in you know I mean its medium format obviously in she and then it just kinda spiraled from there I'm first put a camera about to have years ago I'm estar digital and quickly have traded and about three months after I started shooting my friend ask our wasn't awesome photographer I miss you seen gotten conducts start using her contacts and I'm paying after that I just couldn't stop sitting down I'm kinda took over everything I did so I'm still hire a cheater came about eighty percent film by it yeah can change again it's hard to say actually I really I liked it a lot making has a lot of potential and there's a lot uses for it but on I mean obviously song looks better like if the way and come back it it works for me but it's more the process I am when I look in my contacts Lake I see completely differently than I do and I look through digital camera Celtics for me more beginning to end my pictures come out so much better just because processor when I started I learned on digital and I feel like I am just kinda shot just to shoot and it wasn't LA for shot a film camera that I realize that I was actually paying attention to how it was composing an israeli President I was actually thinking about what I was trying to portray in my photography adam has suggested shooting changing changing and I mean I got something no meaningful and worthwhile and that was even expressing my liberty mine pirated on on I shoot film because well I started I learned on top so I am that'll I and now I learner film I learned in high school shooting them team at by tonight for under and I just love I never gonna take everyone learned it had time kinda fell in love with their the contract and you via a darker like Tyler watching at work come to life and Nana when did you know came out I I went into that just like noonan's cheaper and I just never loved my images as I like I magnin compose an image I create an image but that lie just wasn't there and silent back Tom homes for years ago now have her back II that I can create in damage like there's something living in natural light there something alive and breathing when I actually fell which I to stop when I shoot digital I mean I'm and I'm in no way one additional haters like I i get I I some there are some people out there blow my mind shooting digital I that permeates just right Irish for me my my are comes through the creation and using gonna the way different stocks capture lightened at it speaks to me ashey film is its its there's so much more to it you get a digital camera and take pictures so flat did in it is a matter which you what can we use use film cameras are so much more like to isn't 30 quality the colors better than renditions better the resolutions better II he added take your time focusing compose so shot yet not upset I'm a better shot you never take additional games shooting away 10,000 images time so its it's a better workflow its better images its which is the better way to do things I there's so many more stops dynamic range are so much more resolution his stuff you can't get can even be in the nicest disappear box if they're really getting the shooting film mom you know two years that they really got into digital and I just want to learn more about the tire been I think film took it to the next level for me to learn something at felt like I just platter out shooting digital had a really feel super excited sure anymore and when but started showing film I remember getting my first medium format camera in the box kahi open it up like oh my gosh but as I don't know how to word it or anything for that actor was my first film ever shot and a super colorful mom I love the way that'll work than actually still use while others pictures from a very first role that a shot has like my main better my website everything what they got him back with the picture on the screen is like so sharp a sharper than anything I've ever seen before on picture any red there's gonna go to another another spot ima tired rear so I shoved down my main issue weddings I love bring more romantic look to weddings instead of just the it's a perfect picture every time I like imperfection film gives especially with weddings pretty cool having a different camera the most people are seeing when you shoot weddings so it's like they definitely want to come up to you and talk to you good but that camera and then you get to town shooting down there always so surprised when you tell me shooting film and units by Tom like lives better are not better but but it's a different world I I dislike pure colors that it does the highlighter their everything everything for their no where digital there's only so much that it can hold the main reason that I would shoe film is because I feel like that's my personality I like a a little bit more but challenge than just shooting way looking the back to the screen like I want to challenge you and I want that but look I wanna for my sup apart from other photographers because there's not especially among government is now a lot of people this year down by the just getting into it shooting 30 but no matter which 35 millimeters of number medium format just minutes left %uh %uh %uh %uh it %uh this mcafferty apk app but surely after mom got married documenting like animals breaking the law and then my sector behind me in this little-known other camera week after the only memories I have are like and act like yeah the store picking up some film looking into the camera taking this honor now picnics actions to Macau I love these photos are in pretty rough shape we still have some the negatives that means we can get them scan become back good as new one reason why a film because the cameras like this simple mobile camera thinking easily repair collapse like pass on generation I decided she'd because we wanted to start a family in any the eight hours at my computer for every wedding wasn't conducive to being accounted at I wanted to be I wanted time this down my daughter wanted to understand my wife I wanted time to pursue other things like sailing and if ours padlocked my computer it wasn't gonna happen film allows me to do the job send it to the lab and I get back beautiful images that I don't really have to mess with so I can produce worry that I'm proud to have without being changed to a computer film allows me to connect with my clients I'm not confident looking at the back my screen checking histograms super worried about Max treasures I can worry about expression I can remember that connection with the subject I can worry about taking a beautiful photograph without worrying about the technical part quite so much people act like film is so difficult but think about your grandmother used to do it how hard can it be a certain working with her p.m. 2005 in I work at a a film out and and a converted over to digital because films dude police estimate of me %uh to get rid of older film whitman and so on her moose or in going into the different direction doing pure additional stuff I'm I notice that was the same stuff you know same winning shots same poses same the senior shots and in it was mainly seniors families weddings I'm working on a film where a notice differences in the typeof shots that are sent to us it's it's more artsy it up bill like the that the photographers personality comes a loved one film I'm gonna think that has a lot to do with it what you have to do in order to achieve film shops I'll you have to wait you have to slow down film force you to do these things it took four seeded thing as what it does for me any filter for the tough talk to you it does the same for them whenever I shoot film a slowdown capture the image look at in my head him issue how to make sure everything's ok so we have some shots film call additionally shooed away all there's like creativity in in film photography and there's a lot of different looks I can look at digital photography in there can be different tire covers but it has him looking I think that has to do with there's only so many digital cameras on the market right now and everybody season you know the same campus northolt are being is are so many protector film in so many different actor film cameras that you can get a different look you can get one look with one film on one camera and then get another look with that same film on different camera and you can also get a different look with one camera in one type of film in if you change it film to another type you gonna get a different look you can't do that with additional unless you go into a photo editor and change their and with additional it seems like there's more post-production would if you're trying to get in the way that you wanna look dinner is actually shooting in the way that you want to look so yeah how's you know group maybe so everything I saw from you know cool skate magazines to you know to the movies we watch their own down son is used to the section in the stones and the whaler so on they have a lot to do with you know when I'm rediscover film again I was like wow that surrounds missin him up talk to be you know is this textures in the sounds that in our group saying I'm at Oliver's and the movies now watch is that you know just has a slight cinematic like you know mature latina so yeah Inspiron actually load my camera cuz I know I have a certain amount shots to get the shot tiny to slow down to pose correctly now take my time and just get the shop you know i really wanna get considered just blast away in picking view actually slow down and take my time in trying to capture home come to me bring is like the most important part the entire process com you know so when I'm shooting film I know that from the darkness point two lines point the whole range is going to be there thomas hasn't scared you to it and you know the the grain is too much textured do not print that this looks amazing with his hands as depth to it I was mature look to it and risking getting round the opening is super important like that final stage processing you were not present someone free and you know they can't see it right there and i'm having a look on the computer lookin the on Facebook for anything to see it you know through like unkown reminders something that's not corrects the 1i have the pre you know there's no variable in their system here's the present in they can see it so it's kinda be presenting to the world the final print are I love my work so on you think it's super *** founders captures the like no other medium so it started with the film mainly because my mom %uh broke homie old film camera and I just want too many years CVS or Walgreens picked up the very familiar role read the manual make sure the year little mark was over 20 took the first pitch so if housing thirty five-millimeter get 36 shots and just 36 chances to get a good shot not only are you changing the number brains that you're shooting you changing the bill actual building I guess super shallow just accept I don't have to worry about white balance I do have two pages and lighting situations there is a right way to do it the wrong way to do it and sometimes it's nice to master the right way to do it but then you become complacent board yep step away from that maybe even outside the box break the rules get some cool images and find out you develop the three biggest things for me when shooting films composition exposure and like quality if those are the only things I have to pay attention to it makes shooting the breeze I can connect with my subject to me there's more you have more relationship with yourself your client tools are using whatever camera may be whatever bill maybe you have a relationship with it the amount of work you have to put into that image before you take it is a directly relational to what you get back from I'm standard the give-and-take relationship if you give your all gonna get back some pretty amazing stuff I think that's what people are going keep shooting down so what we've discovered after talking to all these two for photographers about why these film is that although film has a unique look and feel it's just what allows them to tell their story capture life the way they see it so long live film long yeah E got a new chain yeah mu jeans Gaia alone you know many from the house this has been going on like proposed billion you a do it well a cool yeah I but listening any I'm I'm Graham one has a high yield very beautiful me alright good good expression yeah over here we'll make this just even a little better in the world we just %ah dade real knowledge great Mon yeah embracing many well there's nothing to lose yeah especially when there to make a cash to get my the with open to people about yeah and why did with their mothers not will vary the the whole the book a markup for now available I shoot film because people are more likely to take their clothes off the no its not do you think is the most basically action I kept what on mtv2 code I'm in it for me I'll what up internet yeah the Euro your brand represent streak for but where long telomeres game in the rain haha now collects heavy CN on the non-action radio glad I'm home you know right home go right nominee the whole yeah Raheny yeah you know very cool the glass the yeah many but the team Jeff and now I E the all 0 whereby you know about by funny movie but thank you do but a the town of this is actually gonna win hunter