Committing to shooting film is quite an investment. It's an investment I made about six months ago, and haven't regretted it yet. Along with my series documenting my travel photography, I will also post articles interjecting film photography inserts that I've taken. I think film offers a really new dynamic to photographers, and it has an aesthetic that can be very powerful.
This photo really shows off the film aesthetic. I left the dust and debris that scanned from the negative in the shot. There is no post-production, and it shows off the latitude of film. I love the blown out corner, and I shot this a hair underexposed intentionally hoping to get the silhouetted palms while still maintaining the blown out sun that I shot right outside the frame lines.
This shot was taken with one of the two rolls of black and white film that I took with me - Tmax 100 and Ilford HP5. I love black and white for architecture. This perspective was me standing right underneath a skyscraper looking straight up.
Another clean shot taken with the cinestill this time.
Cinestill 50D
I'll end the article with three photos taken with Kodak Ektar film.
In this last shot, I blew the frame out of focus knowing that the structures I was shooting (palm trees) were obvious enough to not muddy the photo too much. I love the vibe of this shot combined with the saturation of Ektar.