First Steps Into Film Photography

Recently I purchased a Nikon F90x SLR camera after some research into price and quality, the F90x is one of the best choices I could have made. I immediately went out and bought some film and grabbed a lens.

I ran out to Richardson Dees Park in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear with Tom Angus as my model and started snapping away, feeling quite nostalgic with the noises the camera was making, taking me back to being a little lad when I was first exploring photography as a hobby; it was the film cameras that initially got me into it as not only was it magical to me how images were captured; they were so interesting and I always wanted to know how they worked.

Below is one of my favourite images I captured, the colours aren't perfect but I think that's due to the lens I was using keeping the aperture open for too long and letting in too much light.

The shoot went quite well, but the place I got the photographs processed at didn't really do the best job. I didn't want to attempt to process colour film myself without having someone who knew exactly how to do it to aid me with it as the shoot was an important part of my portfolio. This has made me eager to shoot more on film as I believe the quality and overall feel of the images is amazing compared to digital images.

©Danny Rowland Photography