Film Wedding Photography

There’s an alchemy to film photography. It can pull magical, unpredictable images from a wedding. It can bring a lot of soul in spite of, or probably because of, their imperfection. There’s something timeless about the colour and the grain. All of the images here are straight from my film cameras on a mix of colour or black & white film stock, no filters.

Over the years I’ve owned lots of film camera formats (Leica M6, Hasselblad 500CM, Pentax 67 [still regret selling you], lots of SLRs and even an ‘under the dark cloth’ large format camera) but I’ve found the cameras that fit seamlessly into the flow of a wedding day are the simple understated point and shoots. My current favourite is an old Soviet camera with a plastic lens.

Usually, I’ll photograph all the key moments of a wedding digitally, so we don’t miss anything crucial and your eyes are open in the photos when you need them to be open. But we’re always thrilled when people request a few rolls of film to sprinkle through. We also welcome requests for more extensive film photography on a day, but we’ve found that this model of hybrid wedding photography works well for most people.