Weekend in Pairs with Film

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Sophie (girlfriend) kindly took me away to Paris for my birthday back in March and have been wanting to share a few photos with you all :) I have been growing to love film a lot more recently & decided not to take my digital camera to paris. First off let me just say that the weight difference carrying a small Nikon FE2 film camera compared to my beefy looking Nikon D800 when walking around Paris was a lot more comfortable & also I wasn't as paranoid about someone trying to steal my film camera as its not worth much.

Why the hell are you shooting film? its 2015. Loads of people still shoot film and I think film can discipline any photographer. With digital you can take hundreds of bad shots and then download them to your computers hard drive and forget about them within 10 seconds. Each roll costs you around £5 and to develop can can cost you another £5-7 per roll. So given the price of the 36 frame roll in your camera now costs you 36p per shot there is no way your going to want to take 100 shit photos as this will cost you £36. With digital you can also look at the back of your screen and say to yourself "wow what a bad shot" DELETE. Film however you are going to have that negative/print come back to you from the lab, you will look at that one frame and realise the mistakes you have made.

I like to shoot street photography when ever I get a chance and Paris is full of good shot opportunities. As I haven't been using Film very long Im still adapting to the manual focus and using "zone focusing" where usually with my Dslr I would normally shoot wide open to add a bit of depth of field. I have posted a few of the photos below All are taken with Kodak Portra 400 film :)