STUDIO 1250 | Fine Art Wedding Photography | Charleston Weddings

I’ve been shooting a lot of film lately, mainly to explore the way photography used to be before the digital age took over. With film you don’t fire off random pictures because you can, no, with film, every shot you take costs money and unless you want to spend money on random junk that does not matter then you are forced to think about what you’re shooting. Making certain the first time that you’ve got the exposure perfect and the frame composed well. Another interesting thing about film is that there aren’t many controls on the camera. They don’t give you a million menus to sort through in order to find how to change the (insert camera feature here). With film cameras you have a viewfinder, a shutter button, a shutter speed and aperture dial, a lens and film. Not much to interfere with the process of taking photos. I believe this focuses you on what you’re doing instead of on the camera. Anyways, that was my sales pitch for film cameras. Here are the photos I took with mine.

I was in Charlotte to see one of my favorite artists, Sara Bareilles. She put on a wonderful concert at the Neighborhood Theater, which is located in the artsy district. Two of my friends and I went up together, they however had to work the next morning. I stayed the night in Charlotte and took the next morning to explore some of downtown. Charlotte is an interesting place, quite different from most cities. I noticed that Charlotte is a very wealthy city. Unlike others, people walking downtown were business professionals, dressed very elegant and classy. I was really surprised to see all of the planet life there, such as trees and flowers. Normally big cities are all concrete which I’m fond of. But as you can see, Charlotte is extremely clean and well maintained.

Ok, here are my non-official photographer shots of .38 Special at the fair, meaning I was just only shooting stuff from the crowd. All of these were shot with black and white film for fun.

Stratford Knights Vs Summerville Wave
Final Score: Stratford 27, Summerville 41

Hello Charleston! It is a great honor to finally be back home and most of all, that I’m bringing my photography skills down south to serve you. I hope you’re excited for the what the future holds for both of us. I have been on this live changing journey, one that was so far away that I feel as if I left the planet. Alaska has taught me a lot during the 7 years I lived there. Over the next few blog posts I will be sharing the incredible road trip I took to get back to South Carolina. Almost 8,000 miles of highway and about a half-a-million plays on the iPod, I guess you could say I took the “scenic route.” However, it was absolutely worth it! Well I hope to see everyone really soon. It feels great to be back!!!