I once had a new client tell me her favorite thing about my portfolio was how I froze motion in my images.  She said she hired me because the images I make are full of emotion and movement, but motion blur was completely absent.  It is super amazing when my own clients, non-photographers, are able to identify a theme among my work.  We are not really still for a single second in one of my sessions.  They are fun and loud, but also never a quiet or still moment.  It is my silent promise that I can, in fact, keep up with your non-stop kids while capturing their awesome personalities and your life.  In my experience that has been incompatible with shooting film, at least indoors.

So while my partner-in-crime Sara Garcia photographed this amazing family during our August Family is Everything Workshop, I fell back with my Nikon F100 + 3 rolls of consumer film to make this magic.  I am working my way up to using film indoors, perhaps with some bounced flash, but slow and steady wins the race.  I shot so much film this summer and finally had my film from last summer developed.  I am working on a Lessons I learned about film this summer post I will publish at the end of the month.

 

 

In the first Family is Everything Workshop I focused on making family films and you can see those here.  Check back next week to see the magic I made at the indoor family session I led during the workshop.  I photographed some of my favorite humans and it involved a hammock, some hockey, and jumping off the stairs.