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One day…

JAC Photography — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:58:27 +0000

Trying to remember to soak up all the moments in between the now and the one day…

James and Cecile

JAC Photography — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:22:13 +0000

We met James and Cecile at Anna and Brandon’s wedding last year. They flew out from the UK for an end of summer Palm Springs destination wedding. More on that to come, but first up the engagement session from the day before the wedding. These two completely won us over right away, James with his dry sense of humor, and Cecile with her impossibly sweet (and stylish) spirit.

One last one, with the holga.

And one I didn’t shoot

JAC Photography — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:15:36 +0000

This is my mom…at 19.
Perfect lighting (not a bad subject I might add!) Proof positive that good lighting, solid composition and perfect tones never go out of style!

ivana and arthur, ucla engagement shoot

JAC Photography — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:00:05 +0000

meet paris, arthur and ivana’s beloved dog. beautiful couple, adorable dog.

polaroid session, los angeles park

JAC Photography — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:51:03 +0000

Color shot on expired polaroid film with my hasselblad 501c with 80mm. Below shot on polaroid 600SE with fuji 300b. I gave the positives to aaron and judith to take home, so I scanned the negatives and inverted in ps.

Beautiful Bride

JAC Photography — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:19:45 +0000

More to come. I think this wedding made me fall in love with my hasselblad 501 all over again. Shot on Ilford 400 speed bw.

Float On

JAC Photography — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:47:10 +0000

Grateful

JAC Photography — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:40:05 +0000

For this person, who celebrated a birthday this week. 13 years of marriage and every year just gets better!
Hasselblad 501c, Expired Polaroid Film. May 10, 2011.

Spring

JAC Photography — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:59:02 +0000

Heat

JAC Photography — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:31:25 +0000

Push film from the Impossible Project continues to be a fun challenge I’m trying to figure out. I found my early attempts with the film were too soft and I wanted to experiment to create more contrast. I read that heat will produce more contrast if applied immediately after exposure and I’ve tried putting it close to my body but decided to do something a bit more drastic with these. I developed the close up by prepping a flat bottom kettle at simmer. As soon as the image ejected I covered it with black paper and placed the kettle directly on top. This created some great contrast but uneven color (it may have burned the image!) The second shot I used a hot water bottle and I think it created a more even result. Happy weekend everyone!