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 […]

Today is my baby’s 8th birthday so I get to be a bit nostalgic and weepy, right? I spent last weekend teaching documentary family photography, family filmmaking, and the business of photography at the second Family is Everything Workshop.  On Friday night right before our outdoor lifestyle session, I received 5 rolls of film scans […]

My first time shooting film I nailed it.  What I didn’t realize at the time was that it was just the brilliant convergence of perfect light, color, and the most amazing family.  The two directional soft light coming through those windows was not only sufficient for the Portra 400 film I was shooting but it […]

I will say this time I really gave it the old college try. Despite knocking up against the limitations of film as a mostly indoor shooter who fails to stick her subjects in “good light”, I can now say I honestly love film.  Film can have such depth and brilliant color it makes shooting it so […]

OMG so the biggest fail because I just realized she was wearing the same dress as the 90 seconds on Portra 400 from earlier this year.  Ooops, well you can barely tell.  This is shot on HP5Plus and developed by the FIND lab.  

Boulder Family Photography I have been dabbling in learning to shoot film this year.  The majority of the images I have taken thus far have been Chloe and James, but this month I shot a few rolls during a 6 month Parenthood session of one of my favorite families.  With a trip for Chloe’s Spring Break I […]