Family Portraits in Boise with photographer Ashley Thalman
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FILM
Grad Pics with Maren Blake
When’s the best time for Senior Portraits? Right now. No matter the month or time of year we can create a beautiful gallery of sentimental images.
Above all choose a time (both date AND time of day) that’s most stress-free with plenty of time both decompression time before the session and after it. My Senior Sessions aren’t timed but end naturally between 2-3 hours with extra time for breaks, travel between locations, etc. This gives us plenty of time to create and connect.
Seasonal considerations: April and May *might offer warmer weather (emphasis on “might”) BUT one thing is for sure: the final months of the school year are stacked with end-of-year activities. That combined with unpredictable spring weather…
The summer/fall before or after graduation offers flexibility and reliable light and weather without the stresses of year-end busy-ness.
Already graduated? Graduating next year? No problem. There’s no rules, let alone rules about graduation pics needing to be done before or after they “walk”, graduate, move out, etc. Now is always the best time. Want to send a graduation announcement- send them anytime!
Read More16 Frames That Helped Me Feel Better
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
Salt Lake Senior Portraits with Z
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.
Garden Motif
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
Senior Portraits with Cooper
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.
Lemme See with Milan: Anger in the Orchard
in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM
“I’m so angry right now.”
Read MoreBehind the Scenes on Film- Luxury Workshop Retreat Storytelling for Nicole Chapman
For 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 MorePortraits Within Portraits
Of course it wouldn’t be me photographing Jon without Jon photographing me.
And it wouldn’t be garage portraits without Ultraviolet.
Portraits with Jonathan Canlas
Jonathan Canlas with his 3 youngest. Photographed in Lehi Utah on Jon’s 50th birthday under a full October moon.
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Lemme See with Roma at Home
in SEEN SESSIONS, FILM, ARTISTS
Home as a creative place with Roma.
Sitting in the overgrowth of fennel, of Pioneer Day heat I agreed when she said, “I needed this.”
For all the digital pollution, content fatigue and ease of the smart phone dopamine seeking strobe-scroll affect of our time: photography is still special and rare.
To create images on film, let alone the black and white expired film used last summer, points to the ineffable, the transient, the chance. Film has boundaries. No, you don’t know what’s going to happen here. No, there’s not enough light for that. Yes, you have 16 frames on a roll. Yes, you’ll have a week to wait, anticipate, forget, and worry while the lab develops and scans your roll.
For all our trying and scheming and light metering chance gets in, creativity thrives in the parameters of its limitation, and how it all works (and doesn’t) is a mystery we don’t have language for. The images I can’t wait to see aren’t what they were in my head for, the pictures we thought
Film notes:
Just 2 film stocks here: Kodak Gold 200 and Expired Delta 3200 shot on the Pentax 645n through a 75 mm lens.
Film developed and scanned by The Find Lab
Seen with Lacey: On Shooting Film at the Pace of Feeling
That day, more than anything, I wanted to shoot fast.
Read MoreLemme See: Lovers on Film with Claire & Caleb in Review
in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM
If 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 MoreThe Time it Takes to Make a Portrait: Lemme See with Shawna
There’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.
Read MoreMother Seen
in MOTHER, PORTRAITS, FILM, SEEN SESSIONS
One More Roll: Expired Delta 3200 Film
in SEEN SESSIONS, PORTRAITS, FILM
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…
F22, Film as the Massage, and Images from "Lemme See" with Sadie Joy Muhlestein
When I shoot film, I shoot more.
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Pentax 645N with Alex Nibley
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 MoreFound Yin Yang
in FILM, THOUGHTS & SHARES, PRINTS
A collection of yin yang nature iterations available for print purchase.
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Hold Your Own: Fav Film School Road Trip Cuba Pics by Jonathan Canlas
in FILM, THOUGHTS & SHARES, TRAVEL
Aesthetic pics yes, but also the ascetic micro of letting oneself love, rich and dripping like lobster tails in oily red sauce and yucca cooked over pork fat fires, vegetarians salivating. To speak truth through pyramids, to watch and be watched, to let the tobacco bury you- to sing and dance and wear red.
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