Portra 160 – Carmencita Film Lab

July 4, 2014/2 Comments/in Clients /by carmencita

Martin Condomines: 5 Months Away

Today we’re really glad to feature client Martin Condomines ‘s 5 month travel through Australia adn Bali.

When his rolls arrived at the lab the Order Form said “first time shooting film… hope something works out”.

Just after scanning the first couple of frames we knew this was special. Besides the obvious beauty of the stuff he photographed along his road trip his compositions really stood out. Perfect framing and spot on exposure and never more than one shot for a given moment/subject.
Read on and check kurt what a this French photographer who works mainly during the Summer wedding season did to have a second chance to get summer in the Southern hemisphere.

Oh, and for the curious, this was all shot with a Canon EOS 3 using Kodak Portra 160 and 400 films.

October 10, 2013/3 Comments/in Clients /by carmencita

Jan Sholz – Leica/Contax – Portra 160

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 😉