Tags archives: Film Photography

How The Best Film Photographers Meter Their Film

by Nancy Ray in Shooting in Film
How The Best Film Photographers Meter Their Film
One principle I live by? Never stop learning. That was the reason I wanted to create this PDF - I wanted to not only learn from other amazing film photographers - their approach to metering and light while shooting in film - but I wanted to make it available for other film photographers as well. When I read every photographer's response, I was amazed! Some of us do[...]

Shooting Hybrid: How we do it

by Nancy Ray in Shooting in Film
Shooting Hybrid: How we do it
Here’s the deal: we LOVE film. We are film photographers, and every opportunity that we can shoot in film, we will. We educate our clients about our love of film photography, and why it’s important to us. We adore it. We will choose film all day e’ry day, because it’s just so beautiful. We are also clear on the fact that film works the best in well lit scenarios, a[...]

5 Steps to Shooting in Film

by Nancy Ray in Shooting in Film
5 Steps to Shooting in Film
Here's what I love about film: It's SIMPLE. As photographers, I believe we tend to overcomplicate things while shooting. We overthink our settings, our styling, our approach. One thing I've learned in my almost 10 years of being a professional photographer: Simple is best. So I'm going to boil it down for you: these 5 simple steps are really all you need to k[...]

Ideal Wedding Day Timeline

by Callie Davis in For Brides
Ideal Wedding Day Timeline
After you have decided on a wedding date and venue for your wedding, you will want to begin planning the timeline of your wedding day: your ceremony time, dinner time, and exit time. As a photographer, your wedding day timeline is one of the biggest factors of getting the most beautiful, natural light pictures. Let me share a little secret with you: I planned my whole[...]

How to Plan Your Wedding Day Around Film Photography

by Nancy Ray in For Brides
How to Plan Your Wedding Day Around Film Photography
Here's the most important thing to remember about film photography: it's all about natural light! If you're a bride that loves the look of film photography (like we do) and has booked a wedding photographer that shoots in film, here are important steps to think through as you are planning the details of your wedding day. Your most meaningful details: Prepar[...]

Best of 2016 : Families

by Elizabeth Tate in Families
Best of 2016 : Families
2016 was an amazing year for NRP Families and NRP Newborns! We met many new faces and also had the privilege of seeing the same sweet faces come back again... not just clients at this point, but friends. It's the highest compliment to us at NRP when we do see those same faces over and over again, and our goal is that our work reflect just how much we treasure those un[...]

Lucy is 2! and Merta Film Family Session

by Elizabeth Tate in Families
Lucy is 2! and Merta Film Family Session
This family. Guys. Here is my goal as a photographer: to see your family grow over years and years and to document it along the way. I like random photo sessions as much as the next person, but they don't hold a candle to the joy that I get from photographing the same family year after year after year. Being THEIR photographer, not just A photographer. Let me te[...]

Jessica and Adam Creedmoor, NC Film Wedding

by Olivia Suriano in Weddings
Jessica and Adam Creedmoor, NC Film Wedding
Y'all. I sincerely thought about giving every person at Jessica and Adam's wedding an invitation to my wedding. They were fun, so excited for the new couple, and the best dancers I have ever seen. Jessica and Adam's beautiful wedding took place on a farm outside of Raleigh. It was the perfect combination of Adam and his roots, and Jessica's Colombian heritage. Ever[...]

Thomas Family Day in the Life Film Session

by Elizabeth Tate in Lifestyle
Thomas Family Day in the Life Film Session
I take a lot of portraits. Candid portraits, even, that are a little more photojournalistic. But. There's something that I love so much about straight up documentary-style photography. It's real, it's raw, it's unplanned. I've loved it since I studied it in college, and now that I can apply it to the portraiture side of photography? Dream come true. Especially when it[...]

Bailey Benson Film Newborn Session

by Elizabeth Tate in Newborns
Bailey Benson Film Newborn Session
The thought of writing a blogpost about this family overwhelms me. They're the Benson's... Lindsey and Chad... they're two of me and Robert's best friends. Lindsey and I have known each other for about 16 years, which sounds crazy to say. We hung out one time about mid-way through college (I'm going to pretend like that wasn't 10 years ago), and that was that. That[...]