Jonathan Canlas with his 3 youngest children.
Photographed in Lehi, Utah under a full moon in October on Jon’s 50th birthday.
Last year for my birthday Jon gave me a bag of expired film. In that bag I discovered film stock treasures like Delta 3200 film which is to say shooting film at the pace of feeling, the time it takes to make a portrait and one more roll and during this session we made some magic with Ektar 100.
Film notes:
Expired Kodak Ektar 100, box rated, no push. One of the rolls had humidity which transferred the KODAK writing to the film. The lab told me this could have happened when the exterior package was removed before the film acclimated to the room temp.
Garage studio portraits: Kodak Gold 200- box rated. No push.
Backdrop: Ultraviolet Backdrops “Negative” canvas backdrop. We’ve been testing this durable, long-lasting, eco-minded white seamless backdrop for a few years now. Not sure why we haven’t made it public yet but after shooting it non-stop this month I think it would serve photographers who love the clean look and negative space offered by a white seamless.
Camera: Pentax 645n with a 75 mm lens. I really love a fixed lens. Sure, I have to get away to get wide but I like the physicality and the restriction of a single focal length and the way it cultivates depth in my process.
Film Lab, Developing and Scanning: The Find Lab in Salt Lake City. These are large Frontier scans with borders.