Behold the joy-pill that is picture making on a grumpy April Saturday with a roll of medium format film.
FILM NOTES
Film & Developing Notes: Kodak Gold 200 box rated, no push
Scanner: Frontier
Backdrop: Custom Ultraviolet Backdrops
Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens.
Film Lab, The Find Lab in Salt Lake City
Senior portraits are an opportunity to thoughtfully document your child’s home life, hobbies, and personality, as the teenhood chapter ends and early adulthood begins.
Captured on high-quality, detail rich medium format film, I offer custom Senior Portraits for art-loving families who crave intentional, personality-filled, heirloom-quality portraiture.
My slow, laid back process results in dynamic, feels-like-them portraits, candid moments, and close-up detail features, of the most important places, passion, and details of your senior’s life.
My most popular add-on is the Mobile Studio. Adding a timeless studio feel to your gallery I’ll bring the studio to you with hand painted canvas from Ultraviolet Backdrops.
Once we got Z’s film back we designed the family’s favorite portraits in a 10x10 storyboarded Archival Book bound in a taupe linen bookcloth. All curated print products are handcrafted, printed in the USA using sustainable practices, include customization, and are lifetime guaranteed.
Film notes:
Film Kodak Gold 200 box rated, no push:: Ektar 100 box rated, no push
Garage studio portraits: Kodak Gold 200- box rated. No push.
Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “Seamless White” backdrop.
Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens.
Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City. These are large Frontier scans with borders.
Me, 2026 with my garden strawberries
Dad, 2022 with his garden tomato, from our last photo shoot together.
One of those shoots it’s gonna be the last. I knew it, I know it now. Death speaks its inevitability acrossthroughbetweenwithin and from aliveness. Can’t help but photograph the mundane, can’t help but let ideas be wild and alive.
I asked my arthritic father to lay face down on the grass like a kid, like a subject, like an actor in the way I saw him, like a return, like a prophecy, ground bound, a ghost. And now I write from his absence.
Film Notes
Film Strawberry: Kodak Gold 200 medium format film box rated, no push | Tomato: Portra 160 medium format film
Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “World Forest” muslin backdrop.
Camera: Strawberry: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens | Tomato: Bronica 645
Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City
From the golf course to the garage studio with backdrops, blooming new life on Aspens to holding puppies at home- a laid back, stress free day hanging out with Cooper.
Film notes:
Film Kodak Gold 200 box rated, no push.
Garage studio portraits: Kodak Gold 200- box rated. No push.
Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “World Forest” muslin backdrop.
Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens.
Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City. These are large Frontier scans with borders.
“I’m so angry right now.”
Read MoreFor the building, creating, and instructional images I shot 35mm b&w (HP5) on the Pentax K1000. For completed installs, wearables, and photoshoots I shot medium format (Kodak Gold 200) on the Rolleiflex 6001. These mediums tell the story of the luxury florist. Alway working in a team sharing a vision, engineering a flow, pivoting, and troubleshooting their processes and environment to create an ephemeral experience and image.
Nicole integrated these behind the scene images into her sites beautifully. The mix of gritty process and polished editorial shots layered with Nicole’s affinity for textures are evocative of her style, the high key dry desert place, and the mood of her luxury retreat workshop.
Read MoreMonths later she’d muse about what it meant to be, or not to be, a ghost.
Read MoreOf course it wouldn’t be me photographing Jon without Jon photographing me.
And it wouldn’t be garage portraits without Ultraviolet.
Jonathan Canlas with his 3 youngest. Photographed in Lehi Utah on Jon’s 50th birthday under a full October moon.
Read MoreThat day, more than anything, I wanted to shoot fast.
Read MoreIf my friend were on the fence about hiring Ash I would tell them this: Ash makes it SO easy. Just do it because you’re not going to get a better experience creating art. She’s amazing.
Read MoreThere’s something portal about the feeling of, “we’re done”. Something like a venting of the pressure of initial ideas or expectations that move out the obvious making way for the less obvious, the flow. Like everything up to that point was summoning what we’re actually there to do.
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Children’s Portraits with Ash are back! A low-stress portrait experience for you and your kids.
Read MoreOne Sunday afternoon the river came to us.
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Jon gifted me a box of 10 rolls of expired Delta 3200 film for my birthday and I had a feeling I’d like it…
With a few minutes left in our session and a roll already shot I asked Janessa if I could shoot something a bit more experimental. Maybe nothing would turn out but maybe it would…
When I shoot film, I shoot more.
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I’ve been craving something a bit more nimble, more responsive than my so-slow-they-forget-me Rolleiflex, something not square, something more intuitive…
Read MoreA collection of yin yang nature iterations available for print purchase.
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