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Dancing in The Snow


 
  Dancing in The Snow
Dancing in The Snow
Walt and Joanna dance amidst the snowflakes during their September wedding in Boulder, CO. Their outdoor wedding had been cancelled due to a major early winter storm that came in the previous day; they regrouped and held the wedding at a friend's home and then went outside for a dance in the afternoon. Shot with a 100mm f2 lens with Tri-X.

Paul F. Gero

  
 
 

Shawna Scabar 		 

Love the B&W. How did you achieve this?


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0 April 15, 2011

 

Paul F. Gero 		  Hi Shawna,
That was shot on good old fashioned film (Tri-X, 400 ISO)...
Lots of folks still shoot film (including me!)...
Cameras are cheap compared to digital (you can get a used Elan 7 or 7e from a place called keh.com and find a camera for well under $100!)...or if you spend a bit more, you can get an EOS3 or EOS 1v (still the best film camera I have ever used)...
Color negative film can still be processed and scanned - viola, you have your image in digital format!
I use a great lab called Richard Photo Lab in LA (http://richardphotolab.com) and they have become the place for portrait and wedding photographers to send their work for processing and scanning. I highly recommend them!
Hope that helps (probably more than you expected ;-)

P.S.: Richard Photo Lab can also scan silver-based films like Tri-X in addition to the c41 (color negative films). There's even a c41 b & w film available that gives you some advantages in scanning...though I'm kind of a film purist and LOVE Tri-X.
It's the first film I learned to shoot when I was a kid and it is still an awesome film.


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