Christopher Rebo Photography

Here’s a fun video from the shoot I did with Katie and Kalli last week.  Thanks to Tony over at PictureFilm for the video work!  Let us know what you think of it.

I’ve been itching to go shoot some stuff just for fun – no particular agenda, just go out and play around.  Got to do that today, and had a blast.  Had a fun bunch of people come out and play along, too.  Big thanks to Katie and Kalli for being our models for the day!  Suzie of Zo-Mak Photography also came out and played some, as did Tony from PictureFilm (Will be posting a little video from the shoot as soon as he has it all wrapped up!). Thanks guys!

I have to say that I was pretty happy with how the day went – I had some ideas that I wanted to try, and I think I got exactly what I wanted form them.  Love that feeling! Doing personal work also lets me play around a bit on the processing end the workflow – which you will definitely see here.  Just a little different feel to some of these…  Let me know what you think!

Again, big thanks to everyone!  Here are a few favorites from the day…

Chris

OK, so a bit about this session.  I wanted to shoot something a little more editorial looking, so I asked Ashley if she’d like to model.  Obviously she said yes, so I got a make-up artist (Thanks, Erin!) and off we went!

We weren’t going for a really high fashion look – more catalog style maybe you could say?  Whatever you want to call it, we got exactly the look I was wanting.  Thanks Ashley – you rocked it!  Mostly outdoors, with a few fun studio ones thrown in.  Let us know what you think!

Thanks to Josh and Jeremiah for coming along and shooting some, too.

And, without further ado, the images…

Chris

I had the chance to tag along with Janna Beecher (whom many of you know as my trusty 2nd photographer from your weddings) on a fun shoot tonight.  She had donated a session for a charity auction, and Jessica’s mom won it!  She wanted to get some pictures of Jessica in her dance outfit, so off to the woods we went…

These are just a few of my images that I liked and wanted to share tonight.  Now back to packing for tomorrow’s wedding…

Thanks for looking!

Chris

Something a little fun here today…  A couple weeks back my good friend Jeremiah and I decided we should do a shoot – just for fun.  While that doesn’t sound like any thing revolutionary (and it isn’t) it is surprising how many professional photographers don’t take the time to just go out and shoot for themselves.  I am can certainly be included in that group all too often, although I am working hard to shoot more and more personal work.  It is a great way to shoot what you really want, try new things, and just remember why you love the feel of the camera in your hand.  All without the pressure of having to deliver something to a client.  Anyway, I will climb off my soapbox now…

We really wanted to have a model for the shoot, and so I put up a quick notice on Facebook to see if anyone was interested.  Well, we got more than we bargained for, in a good way.  We got two models, which was awesome, and we got to make some great new friends on top of it!  Angela and her sister Tegan came along with us to see what kind of fun we could dream up.  Angela also happens to own Timeless Photography up in Choteau, and is an awesome photographer.  Big thanks to Angela and Tegan for coming along and rocking it as our models for the evening!

All of the shots I am posting here were shot on film.  And as promised, I’m going to do a little explaining as to why you’ve seen so much film talk on here lately.  First a few reasons why I’ve been shooting some film: For starters, I love the look that some of the new film provides.  And, working with a great lab (thanks Richard Photo Lab!) means I get great, consistent results in the scans I get back, which means getting images that look great right of camera, so I spend less time in front of the computer.  Which is a good thing, trust me.  Secondly, shooting film forces me to slow down more and really think about the shot I am trying to get.  Shooting film isn’t cheap, and that really makes you think about what you are doing, and why, before you click the shutter.  Third, I am really falling in love with the 645 format (and my Mamiya 645 AFD).  The format is a bit more square-ish than 35mm, but not too square.  Hard to explain – it just fits the way I shoot and the way I see.  Finally, I feel like there is a look and feel in film that is hard to copy digitally – so why not just shoot it on film anyhow?

So, that’s all great for personal work.  Are we going to be shooting our client work on film?  Yes and no, for the time being.  All of our weddings booked for this year (thus far) will be shot digitally, with some film shot alongside just because.  We are looking at transitioning to shooting more, or even mostly, film at our weddings for 2012, but the logistics of all of that aren’t quite sorted 100% yet.  We will let you know.  (and if you are a booked wedding client for 2011 and want to talk about us shooting your wedding on film, just let us know!)  For portrait work, you will likely see me shooting a lot of film, or even all film, depending on the type of session and so forth.  I’ll address more of the specifics of shooting film for client work in another post coming up soon.

Alright, after that mountain of text, it must be time to get to the images, right?  Yup!  There were all shot on 120 film with my Mamiya 645, and developed and scanned by Richard Photo Lab.  The only adjustments I have made have been slight curves adjustments, resizing for the web, and touch of sharpening.  All were the new Kodak Portra 400 (shot at box speed), except for the last two which were Fuji 400H (and overexposed 1-1.5 stops).

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we did shooting them!  Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to leave some feedback in the comments.

Chris

And the Fuji 400H shots…