Category: Personal

Film Safari.

In order to spice things up in our camera-photography love life lately, we started using our Holga film camera for fun. Lomography is decently unpredictable as Holgas are not standard film cameras. The bodies and lenses are plastic (they’re essentially toys), and light leaks through to the film via a little red window in the back, so most of the time this stuff is crazy, but really fun to see developed. The bad part is that it’s medium format so it’s expensive, which is why we only really do it for fun. ;) 99% of the time we use this for personal use (most of this is our recent Scott family vacation to Hatteras), but every once in a while you might see us take a shot or two at a wedding or a shoot. We’ll update the blog with the film scans from time to time when we get them in and you can see what we’ve been up to. :)

I had this idea floating around my brain for a while and just kinda needed to get it out. For those who know me well, I don’t take my giant camera gear with me anywhere to take pictures for fun. It kind of feels like taking your paperwork from the office out for an evening stroll. So for fun I use my iPhone or (more recently) an old toy film camera (more on that soon). But – sometimes I have an idea that I want to try that makes me really want to bring out the big guns and just shoot for fun. So this time I did.

A very, very big thank you to everyone involved in bringing this to life! Credit for this 1950s swimsuit model styled shoot goes to:

Model: Katie Markelz

Hair/Makeup: Kristen Henry of Carolina House Handmade

Gracious Use of Her Awesome Pool: Beverly McKernie

Set Director (i.e. mover of pool noodles): Gabby Fekete

The ChaCha: Kathryn Mueller

BBQ Master: Geoff Brown

Concept/Posing: Carolyn Scott

Clothing: Model’s own bathing suits (blue owl suit is a genuine 1940s cotton suit)

Accessories: Model’s own and Makeup Artist’s

CSP Tour Dates

Now accepting a limited amount of shoots for certain June and July dates in the Outer Banks, Pittsburgh, upstate New York, New York City, and Charleston. Please e-mail for availability. Shoot spots limited. Awesomeness guaranteed.