Film Photography

for your Colorado wedding

Do you love the soul, grit, and colors of film?

Me too. Frankly, obsessed with it.

While I can’t argue with the reliability of digital photography, now that lenses are so perfect, sensors are so good, and lighting is so easy, it feels like something is missing.

I started dabbling with film a few years ago, and am incredibly excited to start offering it to my clients for their weddings. If you’re looking for that magical nostalgia, those incredible colors, and something to take your photos to the next level, this could be it.

So here’s what we’ll do.

  • I’LL BRING MY FILM CAMERAS PLUS ROLLS AND ROLLS OF DELICIOUS FILM
  • WE’LL MAKE MAGIC ON YOUR DAY AND I’LL USE FILM ALONGSIDE DIGITAL DURING ALL THE BEST MOMENTS
  • I’LL DELIVER A SET OF FILM PHOTOS ALONGSIDE YOUR DIGITAL ONES AFTER YOUR WEDDING
I’m ready to add film

What I photograph with

a 120mm (medium format) film camera & a 35mm film camera

To me, 120mm is where the good shit is. The massive size of the negative gives you the highest quality and soul of the image. The grain and colors are absolute perfection. There’s not a huge difference for me between 35mm and digital images, so I focus on the larger format camera for most of the wedding day.

But, 35mm really shines during the party photos for that gritty night time look. I usually use a high ISO black and white film or a color film with flash.

If you add hybrid coverage…

I include a second photographer

Film inherently is a little slower than digital to work with, and having an extra set of hands is great for loading film and capturing moments on digital while I’m making something with film. This makes sure the quality of both your film and digital images are up to snuff.

I use a roll for each part of your day

This may change based on your event, but I usually stick to a roll every hour or so. That means a roll during your getting ready phots, a roll during the wedding party phots, a roll during the ceremony, etc. I’ll often do more than that for your portraits together, or during detail photos.

I still use a digital camera too

Weddings are too high stakes for me to trust using just film for an event. So, I’m still using my digital camera alongside my film one. I’ll make sure I use both cameras during all parts of your day, so there’s never a section missing from either coverage.

Develop your film at a LOCAL professional lab

I never ever mail wedding film, as I am too worried about losing someone’s memories. I have an amazing local lab that delivers incredible quality scans.

I still edit the scans once I receive (this is the equivalent of editing in a darkroom) and make sure you get a stunning and cohesive set of photos. Your edited scans are added to your final gallery as digital files, and you can print them, just like the rest of your images.

Working with Kate was a dream from start to finish! She is organized, communicative, kind, and so patient. She made us feel comfortable in front of the camera and safe to be ourselves, and absolutely nailed our photos.

Jess & Nick

Film Portfolio

Film Pricing

Add it just for a session, for portraits, or the whole wedding

Hybrid Sessions

add $600

I offer film for engagements and elopements too! If your session or coverage time is 2 hours or less, you can add hybrid coverage and I’ll make sure you get an amazing collection of film & digital photos.

BOOK A SESSION

Wedding Portraits

add $800

Add hybrid film & digital photography coverage just for your portraits at your wedding. Great option if you don’t want it for the whole day, but still want some film keepsakes.

ADD FILM PORTRAITS

Hybrid Wedding

add $2,000

Add hybrid film & digital photography coverage for your WHOLE WEDDING DAY * eek * It INCLUDES a second photographer to the day to focus on digital photos. Let’s do this!!

ADD HYBRID PHOTOS

FAQs

It varies a little wedding to wedding or session, but I average about a roll per hour, give or take during some of the higher density coverage hours (like ceremonies and portraits). At sessions or elopements, I’ll use 3-5 rolls.

Heck no!! I respect the heck outta people who do, but I only trust the development and scanning of my negative to professional labs who specialize in working with color negative film. I’m lucky enough to have an amazing lab right here in Denver that I take your film to (I HATE putting professional film in the mail, even though there are some fantastic mail-in labs).

I have a Pentax 645NII for 120mm work, and an EOS 3 for 35mm work. I have a handful of more fun manual focus vintage bodies for personal work, too!

Once I finish a roll, I take it out of the camera, roll it up, and label it with what part of the wedding day it came from. It hangs out safe in my fanny pack, then goes into fireproof safe at my house until I take it to the lab to drop it off. I store your negatives in the safe when I get them back from the lab, and your scans get edited and backed up just like the rest of your digital photos.

let’s talk

I’m Kate

about Your film wedding photographer

Lover of all things vintage, and the smell of old books. I’m obsessed with collecting film cameras, typewriters, and live in a house built in 1890. It might because my British genes are drawn to all things more than a hundred years old, or maybe I just enjoy the nostalgia.

I’m also a total nerd. I read fantasy & sci-fi, am obsessed with video games and board games, and still play things like Pokemon and Magic the Gathering even though it’s not the 90’s. My outfit at last year’s renaissance festival included a corset AND a film camera.

I’ve been photographing weddings since 2012, and am pumped to keep this thing going in this wild industry. I truly love what I do to my core, and will forever be honored that I get to witness such incredible moments in people’s lives.

Contact me & book film!