Kodak Portra 400

Week 32 – DJ System Fail (ROLL 52!) – Kodak Portra 400

**EDIT** I completely forgot to write anything about this series. As you can tell by the title it is the official 52nd roll of the 52 roll project. I'm still going to try and finish the series through the rest of the year. But it may become a bit of a challenge.

This set was part of my testing of my DIY black background. Check out the Extra blog for more info. Cody aka System Fail saw some photos from an earlier test and wanted to be a part of the process. I gladly took a chance and shot some great photos!

Week 18a – Brianna – Kodak Portra 400

I met Brianna through Morgan (which you all should remember since she has been featured twice so far in this blog so far).  

It took a good while for us to get together but when we did it was totally worth it.  We kinda went into this shoot the same way I work with anyone who models for me. Its all about getting to know how someone works. Nothing too exciting or hard, it was more like "come as you are and let's make something happen". The biggest down side was once we finally were able to get together we were working on borrowed time before the sun went down. But that allowed us to work during a very special time. 

It's pretty known that magic hour is amazing. Add Portra 400 to that and it's a beautiful thing. I only wish we had more time to prep a tiny bit more, but between this week and next I am pretty happy with what we got.

Development Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit
Standard Development
Scanned and Color Corrected in Photoshop 

Week 12a – Jackie – Kodak Portra 400

These next two weeks were many weeks in the making. Lots of back and forth scheduling went into making this shoot happen. 

Jackie and I met a few years ago in a bar, and have kept in touch since. She was looking to start a portfolio and asked me for assistance with grabbing a few images. We shot 3 rolls together. Below are the images in color (and a few from my trip back from NY that ended up on the same roll).

For not having any experience I think she did a bang up job of interpreting what I wanted out of her. 

Developing Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit
Standard Development
Color Correction in Photoshop

Week 11b – Rochester NY – Kodak Portra 400

Right before the wedding proper (but after I realized I loaded the wrong kind of film for the job) my travel partners and I stopped in at the Rochester museum and science center where the ceremony was to be performed. I had a frantic hour of shooting just about everything I possibly could so that I didn't waste anything.

It was another great little pit stop on our journey, and my only regret is not having longer to really spend a good bit of time there.

Developing Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit
Standard Development
Color Correction in Photoshop

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