When I first got engaged I had an older woman ask me: “Why do you think this is it? How do you know he’s the one?”
At the time, I felt offended by the question. What do you mean? He just is. He’s the one I chose and I don’t have to justify that to you or anyone. I didn’t say this, of course. I think I fumbled through a surprised answer about how we make each other happy.
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So you’ve decided you want to start taking old school film photos of children, but aren’t sure what kind of camera to get?
The first question is: “What is the look you’re going for?”
If you’re an 80s or early 90s baby yourself, you might be craving that saturated, indoor flash-heavy, darkly-vignetted 35mm film appearance that you remember from your own childhood photos.
A great film stock for achieving those striking greens from your childhood is Kodak Ultramax 400.
Here, I’ve used a purposely low-fi plastic “toy” camera (heavy on the indoor flash) to achieve a set of photos that could easily be accidentally dated to 1993.
As the song says: “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone?”
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Unbidden Grace 