FIT TWENTY SIX

Stoic?

Every now and then you make images that are pretty much everything you want a photograph to be. Being in focus is a great start, shooting on film is a better one, beautiful locations, nice light, interesting subjects, small indicators of personality flipped in, all rounded out by something that seems posed but was a casual single frame shot on your lunch break.

It’s so nice to have a frame that really feels like I’m hitting the mark. Not just because it’s something to pepper into my portfolio, but this frame sparked a bit of a refreshment for me, it felt like when I carried around this ‘tiny’ Busch Pressman sheet film camera while a bike messenger. It was weird enough to carry around several pounds of extra camera while riding 80+ KM a day delivering crap, but it was also a view camera, I’d try to shoot two frames (one filmback) a day. That tiny slice of work felt like the most genuine slices of moments in my day.

That said. I’ve been trying to figure out an approach to shooting photographs of the people I work with,. Generally speaking, shooting photographs on a film set is a very specific No-No. I had a sweet gray area to operate in on this day at Whytecliff Park, with Joe being a truly stoic model. But I’m slowly unpacking an approach to operating in this gray area that won’t, well, get me fired.

Anyways. Here’s to the Shoot Film Stay Broke ethos. That said, I’m going to the Lab directly after posting this to pick up a print that a real human being purchased and I’m pretty excited about that.