Studio With Jerusha

It’s been a quite a bit of time since I have been in the studio. So I kicked off 2023 working with Jerusha in the studio and we agreed on two amazing colors for the background! I’ve wanted to work with this red-ish backdrop color for quite some and it did NOT disappoint. Jerusha and I had no real plan for this shoot, just sort of a hang out and get some shots to be creative. Last year I kicked off shooting with J too, so maybe this will just be an annual thing for us ha!

While all the digital shots came out great, I shot 2 rolls of Kodak Pro Image 100. I was stoked to get those developed and the worst part was….. the camera I was gifted by a great uncle had the incorrect shutter speed so I had just clear strips of film.. RIP the film and the 20 bucks for developing.

Downtown With Katie

I’ve honestly been terrible at updating all my work on this. Its unfortunate that I give Instagram more love than my actual website. At least here I can show whatever I want and also get to show bigger images rather than those tiny little image tiles haha.

Anyways, this was a shoot I did with Katie a few summers ago. She was a roommate of one of my friends and I had seen them create some fun portrait work together so I asked if she’d be interested in working together and she happily agreed to meet up and shoot. One thing I remember about this shoot with Katie, it was so ‘effin hot. We tried to hide in the shade as much as possible because it was when Boise was being hit with its usual 1 week of pure hell heat.

One of the main ideas I wanted with this shoot was to play with some color theory and focus on using Katies hair color and pant color to compliment or contrast our locations backgrounds. I started neutral with the white wall, moving to the orange and then finishing the shoot in this alley with an awesome blue wall.

Enjoy :D

Jerusha At Home

Hello.

It for sure has been a hot minute (nearly 2 years to be exact!) since I have been on here to update and show any sort of new work! I’ve been working on my masters degree and now that it has been successful completed I will have so much more time for all photography stuff. Between shooting and sharing.

This set with Jerusha was from last summer in her downtown Boise apartment. It had this UH-Mazing window light that would ricochet off the nice off white painted walls and just gave light that made me super excited. I shot with my Pentax 6x7 with my 105mm, Im pretty sure I shot wide open at 2.4 or at least 3.5 with both the rolls of Ilford HP5+ and Portra 400. I really enjoyed this day shooting with Jerusha because it was such a simple set up of things and to me it has a real clean, professional look. Only regret is I didn’t bring more film to shoot, I could’ve shot an easy 10 rolls with this light.

Anyways have a look and enjoy. Feel free to give a comment or even just a heart at the bottom of the page!

First Roll: Ilford FP4+

In the fall I messaged Jennifer if she would be interested in creating some work and she agreed. I was super excited about this because I needed a mental health day from work. So we both had a Friday off and I met her at her awesome studio apartments in downtown Boise. We shot a ton this day, however I told her I had a roll of film that required a ton of sun. So we did one last outfit change and headed outside her apartment into the sun to feed the FP4+ extreme hunger for light. I rated this roll at box speed (ISO 125) and went through the roll pretty quick and it sort of saddens me there is no 220 of this in current production. As much as I love the 6x7 negative size, it really cuts short a roll at 10 exposures and if you only have one roll you become quite stingy on pushing the shutter.

Usually I am a Kodak fan boy at heart and I LOVE shooting Kodak Tri-X 400 but I was looking to explore other black and white films and when I ordered my Fomapan rolls forever ago I thought why not FP4 too? This roll was a joy to shoot and I honestly will be investing in more to keep stock in my fridge. The contrast is perfect for my taste, nice rich blacks, solid middle gray and great highlights. It was easy and quick for scanning, I barely spent anytime on adjustments, in fact I spent more time on removing dust. Kodak Tri-X is great but for more mid day shooting and harsh sunlight, FP4 will be an easy go to without hesitation.