Michael Ferire has been sending us film lately from his native Belgium.
This session stood out particulary because of the awesome location, great looking couple and how perfectly exposed the shots are.
Glad to have new awesome clients like you Michael!
Wesley Nulens is the perfect example of what a succesful client/lab relationship can grow into. Since the very first rolls he sent us (about six months ago) he let us know exactly what he was looking for. To this point the relationship has evolved to a point where were are so familiar with his shooting style and color/contrast preferences that he no longer gives us gidelines and he literally says 99% of the scans he gets from us are delivered to his clients without any editing at all. This gorgeous maternity shoot is on of the latest order he’s sent us. Wesly is really perfecting his command of Kodak Portra film, and in this session he used both Portra 160 and 400 for the color images. As always a pleasure to work on your stuff Wes! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wesley Nulens es el ejemplo perfecto de una inmejorable relación cliente/laboratorio. Desde los primeros rollos que nos envió (hace unos 6 meses) nos indicó exactamente qué buscaba en nuestros escaneos. A día de hoy la relación ha evolucionado a tal punto que estamos tan familiarizados con su estilo de exposición y sus preferencias de color/contraste que ya no nos manda indicaciones y dice literalmente que el 99% de los escaneos que le entregamos se los manda a sus clientes sin ningún tipo de edición extra. Esta maravilla de sesión de maternidad es uno de los últimos encargos que nos ha enviado. Wesley está perfeccionando su dominio de las películas Kodak Portra, y durante esta sesión utilizó tanto el Portra 160 como el 400. Como siempre un placer trabajar en tus negativos Wes!
Jan Scholz (known around the internet as Micmojo) has been a photographic idol for some of us at the lab for a while now. Needless to say it meant a lot to us when he first sent us film back in april, when we’d only been open for three months.
Working for Jan is both a pleasure and a challenge, because we’re not usually so incredibly familiar with our customer’s body of work. As you may know scanning is a highly interpretative “art form”, that’s why we insist in you giving us color/contrast guidelines if you’re looking for a specific look. In this particular project Jan shot beautiful model Louise in color film. Most of Jan’s work is shot in black and white (mostly Tri-X) and developed and scanned by himself.
The challenge with this particular project was transferring that black and white portrait essence that we all love from him into color film. Hope we succeeded Jan 😉
At Carmencita we’re super excited about our first client publication being released!
Gustavo Alemán put together this awesome 60 pages photobook entitled “(No) Soy de aquí ” and just released it, so we ran to grap a copy. The printing and design are flawless and most importantly, every picture is shot on film and developed/scanned in the house.
Check it out/buy it here http://gustavoaleman.net/Book-Libro
Everybody at the lab loved this model shoot by Aristotle Liu so we really wanted to share it with all of you guys. Aristotle used the awesome Pentax 6×7 with the 104mm f2.4 lens and Fuji 400H film. Great work Aris!
Today, and for something complete different, we’d like to feature our long time client and friend Mikel Citores. We love people that experiment with their photography, and Mikel really took it to the next level with this roll.
Velvia 50 is a classic slide film that is world-famous amongst photographers for delivering high contrast and great saturation. Historically it has been used for landscape photography, and rarely used for portraits since its high saturation tends to make subjects way too red-faced. Needless to say these characteristics appear when processed as slide film, that is using the E6 process. But what if we develop this slide film in regular C41 negative chemistry? That’s what we call cross-processing, and that’s what Mikel asked as to do with the Velvia 50 roll he sent us.
As you can tell cross-process adds a whole new dimension of colors, contrast and saturation. Most times results are quite unpredictable, but that just adds to the whole fun of it. A little over or underexposure can add a whole new layer of colors! So yeah, if you’re feeling experimental and have a roll of film that says “Process E6” that you never fond the time/courage to shoot go ahead and try it out, most likely it’ll be awesome
PS: and no, Instagram didn’t invent cross-processing. Now you know where it originally came from.
Images by Mikel Citores – http://mikelcitores.com
Shoot by Rohan Thapa
Shoot by Henry Harder – http://henryharder.4ormat.com
photo by Albert Roig
We celebrate Birgit’s last feature in Style Me Pretty, a wonderful wedding we scanned in the lab. And we are sure this is not gonna be the last wedding scanned in the house that it’s gonna be featured, you guys are sending so much quality work! Check it out!
http://www.stylemepretty.com/2013/08/23/german-wedding-from-birgit-hart/
Shoot by Gert Huygaerts – www.gerthuygaerts.com
Shoot by Karoline Kirchoof – http://www.karolinekirchhof.com
Gorgeousness from Belgium by Wesley Nulens – www.wesleynulens.be
Gorgeous Portuguese landscape by Pedro Terrinha Photography.
