Welcome back to the second “Monthly Round Up” I’m stoked to be piecing together another one for you fellow Substackers.
It’s been a fairly busy April on my side, sun has been shining and we have been moving and grooving. I’ve managed to get a number of rolls developed and scanned from daily adventures and projects that has been photographed.
I’ll take a moment to quickly introduce “The Edit; Interiors & Imagery”
This is a newsletter where I walk you through in quite a descriptive story telling of a project. I mainly focus on the interiors and the flow of a space.
I recently -ish posted a note about two books I picked up from our local book shop. One being Lee Miller (there is a film about her played by Kate Winslet. Meant to be VERY good!) If you haven’t come across Lee Miller, she was a Model back in the 1920’s, then turned her eye towards photojournalism where she documented the War from Various European countries. To me this book sounded like a perfect read. I left it half way through and never finished it! It felt so sad not to finish it BUT it felt like a marathon and a total slog to get through. Maybe that’s why I’ve never run a marathon…
On the other hand I have become obsessed with essays by The Kinfolk “HOME”. If you’re like me and into interior design and appreciate beautiful photography, get your hands on a copy! It won’t disappoint.
Ektar 100 showing its magic
Lets chat Film Stock for a sec…
I’m getting itchy feet…I’ve been photographing a fair bit of interiors as of late with Ektar 100 and I have loved the outcome. I have been noticing in some low light scenes there is a hint of magenta coming through. It’s manageable to correct in post however, I started to dig around online and a number of creators/ photographers have seen the same. Turns out good ol’Ektar loves a lot of light!
Having climbed out the rabbit whole of film stock it lead me onto a question I’ve been asking myself. Is it time to mix it up a bit? This lead me to dig up a photo I shot last year on Cinestill 400d and gave me the urge to try it again. There’s defiantly a richness to the colour pallet and being “dynamic” I think it can be really useful to create contrasts in a scene like this image. I do wonder, however, in low light situations if there is a constant green tone that pops which you can see in the bottom right corner of this image. Saying this, it might just be a cast from the light creating a green hue.
I will report back…
Thanks for reading
Such a lovely pic of our bistro table. Love this round up x
🙌🏼 Sam your photography is so gooood ❤️❤️