Analog,
Film Photography
There’s an undeniable charm to film photography; it’s romantic, poetic, we admit. But there’s more to our love affair with film than just the nostalgia.
When aiming to create honest and profound images, film often proves more effective than digital, as it involves a level of risk, vulnerability, and presence in the moment, as well as tones that are created organically.
What’s more, film photography offers us the unique opportunity to handcraft prints in the darkroom, employing traditional techniques to achieve archival standards similar to those found in art galleries.
While we adore film, it doesn’t mean everything has to be shot on film. In our work, both digital and film find their rightful place.
On this page, you’ll learn more about our hand-made prints and be able to scroll down to a gallery of both wedding and personal photos taken exclusively on film.
1 Liquid Emulsion Prints
These custom artistic photographs are the most delicate creations we produce. We work with beautiful handmade watercolor paper from a mill that has been producing papers continuously since the 16th century. Martin coats the paper with liquid emulsion using a brush, and then the photograph is enlarged on the paper from the film. We frame the photograph with a float mount, giving the appearance of levitation within the frame.
— 1 hour of coating the paper with liquid emulsion
— 24 hours of drying the paper in complete darkness
— 3 hours of enlarging a photograph from film negative onto the paper
— 1 hour of washing the photograph under running water
— 10 hours of drying the photograph
— 1 hour of mounting the photograph into a frame
1. Developing & scanning the film to get a negative that we can work with, and a digital image to share online and print. Each film is processed manually by Martin – developed and scanned frame by frame, which gives him absolute control over the result.
2. – 3. Coating & Printing – We coat the hand-made watercolor paper with photographic emulsion using brush in a complete darkness (but a faint red light). After 24 hours of drying the photograph is enlarged on the paper in the darkroom from film negative.
4. Finished print ready to be framed using a float mount, where it appears to be levitating in the frame, and hung on some cool spot.
2 Traditional Silver Gelatin Prints
Martin makes these traditional “wet process” archival black and white prints in a darkroom using Ilford chemicals and beautiful fiber based silver gelatin papers. Each of them is original.
— 2 hours of enlarging a photograph from film negative onto paper
— 1 hour of washing under running water
— 10 hours of drying
— 1 hour of mounting into a frame
1. Developing & scanning the film to get a negative that we can work with, and a digital image to share online and print. Each film is processed manually by Martin – developed and scanned frame by frame, which gives him absolute control over the result.
2. Printing the photograph in the darkroom by enlarging it on paper from film negative.
3. Finished print framed and ready to be hung on some gorgeous place.
Some of our film photos
Assorted images from our weddings, portraits, travels and personal projects.
