35mm Film Wedding Photography
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
Romantic, Subtle, Refined and Timeless. Just a few of the ways Film Photography is described which is why I believe it's the perfect choice for photographing weddings
Coming Home...
I got my first "proper" camera in about 1988; a Pentax ME Super which is a 35mm SLR. I used it for days out, my kids, holidays and so on. Occasionally I'd go out with the sole purpose of getting some particular photo but it was then mostly a hobby.
Around mid 90's I decided I wanted to get more serious and swopped the Pentax for a Nikon FA; another 35mm SLR that was then the most advanced SLR you could buy.
I bought my last SLR in 2003 on a trip to USA from B&H in New York; we now had auto focus and auto film advance and could shoot 4 frames a second!
After that it's been all digital with Nikon being the main camera brand; by 2010 I'd forgotten what film even was and until a couple of years ago only shot digital and of course since 2020 it's been mirrorless.
Then, 2 years ago I bought my Leica M10 - a throwback to the original M3 of 1954. Whilst a digital mirrorless camera it's also very much all manual and requires skills I'd long since forgotten.
But it was so much more rewarding...
I started to use at weddings for some parts of the day and fell in love with the aesthetic of the images - they were so film like, softer and more romantic than any of my other digital cameras.
Which got me thinking....
35mm Film Wedding
I still had my last Nikon 35mm Film Camara somewhere - it needed new batteries and of course some film but then worked fine. The next wedding I had saw me get shots not only with the Leica but I also shot a roll of film with the Nikon SLR. A week later and I get the files after processing and I'm so pleased; none incorrectly exposed, all pretty well dead on focused, and just so beautiful with a "look" that's perfect for weddings.
So....
For 2027 I'm switching to "35mm Film Wedding Photography" only. This will give me about 25 weddings this year where I can practice and perfect the techniques needed to be able to photograph every part of a wedding and be 100% sure everything will work. I'll actually also use my Leica M10 so there will be some digital photos but as I said, using the M10 is so similar to a SLR and the photos look so film like anyway I really don't think it will be an issue.
If...
If you want photos you can actually hold in your hands, that you know you'll have for decades to come, that you can put into an album, that you can pull out and show people a real photo. And if you want those photos to have a timeless romantic quality then please get in touch and let's see if this might work for you.
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