Sept Issue 9 Looks
by nickhamilton | Jul 29, 2008 |
Our first issue has dropped and in there is our 9 Looks for 2009 style guide fashion outerwear feature. Over that past few years I have shot a couple of these style shoots and been into shooting ultra tight action photos showing both a riders style and clothing mid trick. I’ve shot these on Medium Format film to get a really specific lighting not possible with 35m digital camera bodies and also to get a consistant feel through the shots from using Kodak Portra 160 print film. We shot this years 9 Looks at Squaw Valley in April and I hadn’t shot film for a full year since the 8 Looks shoot in Big Bear. Things started off badly, the film I wanted to use was out of stock at all the major camera stores in my area, full mission to get the film. Then the Polaroid back I was using kept jamming and exposing the whole pack first frame (Polariod film is expense and on the verge of extinction so not that rad when you blow a whole pack in 1 go). Riders turned up without their snowboard gear, the weather crapped out for a couple days etc.. No excuses we got it done, check out some of the contact sheets from the shoot below and the Behind the Scenes gallery here.
Many thanks to my Photo Assistant Sarah Wirtanen, Annie Fast, Big Ben, Tom Richards and Savanah at Squawall the riders Simon, Trza, Kass, Gretchen, Kjersti, Jamie420, Tyler, Fox, Messier
Any questions about the shoot or specific shots hit me up in the comments section below
The editing process with film is way more arts & crafts than digital
Polaroids have such a unique look
It was blowing such a gale when we were shooting these it was unreal. I had Annie & Tom both holding onto my 1 light as it kept blowing over. That day 106 MPH winds recorded on the summit, it was close to that right here while we were shooting. Kjersti was brave and looked amazing
Trza is great, dope style and a ton of talent.
July 30th, 2008 on 2:47 pm
Thats some sick photography
July 30th, 2008 on 10:55 pm
on real film? That’s amazing! Sweet photos Nick!
July 30th, 2008 on 11:15 pm
Windiest dealfest ever!
July 31st, 2008 on 7:10 am
Just wondering if the purple check jacket is nomis?
July 31st, 2008 on 1:32 pm
looks killer! Are you using a Hasselblad?
July 31st, 2008 on 9:17 pm
Yeah, shot it with Hasselblad on Portra 160 Neg film and had it printed. Probably the last shoot I’ll do on film though, it was pretty stressful not seeing the results right away!
August 1st, 2008 on 1:16 am
So Nick, does this mean you are accepting film shots again??? That would be sick!
August 1st, 2008 on 9:24 am
yeah, we like Medium format shots as long as we can edit them as LoRes JPEG’s and have the originals to scan. We have an insane Drum scanner in our Prepress Dept but the Scanner company has gone out of business since then and the only software to run it is old OS 9 stuff. I was blown away at how hard it was to get some 120 Portra for this shoot.
August 1st, 2008 on 12:43 pm
Technology…
Seems like everyone bought into the digi scene just a lil to much and need to realize they need to support film efforts still because it is another medium of photography.
Well i don,t have a Hasselblad or a Lieca yet but I do have a Holga which is way more bad ass, hahahaha.
August 1st, 2008 on 10:40 pm
Hot damm. The photos look great!
August 2nd, 2008 on 11:49 am
Environmentally it’s way nicer using digital too, I had forgotten about all the sketchy chemicals involved with film production, processing, and then making darkroom prints. Even shooting Polariods, every photo you take you peel back the developer page and it’s covered in gnarly stinky chemicals that just get thrown in the trash.
August 4th, 2008 on 12:43 am
Would you ever use medium format with a digital backing?
August 6th, 2008 on 10:43 pm
Yeah Jake, medium format with digi back is my favorite set up, but it’s just so damn expensive to run. We did shoot all our Surplus pages this year with Digital Hasselblad and the shots came out real nice
September 3rd, 2008 on 2:42 pm
what kind of b&w film do you like to use?
September 8th, 2008 on 10:02 am
Thats sick you shot all of this on film! Looks great!
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July 16th, 2009 on 4:58 am
I still think you’ll never get the look you got from these images if you shot digital.
All these images are amazing. Would be good if TWS took more film submissions!