Shelly Duncan Photography

I LOVE shooting film! I started shooting film about four years ago, and my obsession has only grown in that time. I love how tactile the experience is, and how the look of film has a built in timelessness. I think it’s neat to create photos with a process that dates back over a hundred years. I shoot 35mm film, medium format film, and Polaroid. I shoot with a Canon Elan 7e for my 35mm, a Hasselblad 500CM for medium format, and a Polaroid One-Step for Polaroid.

For those that don’t know a lot about film, 35mm is likely what your childhood photos were taken on. In terms of printed photos, they are the aspect ratio of a 4:6. Each roll of 35mm film comes with 36 shots. Medium format is 35mm’s older sibling. The biggest difference between the two, medium format has a larger negative size so it has a higher “resolution”. Medium format only gets 10-16 photos per roll, and my camera specifically gets 12. The aspect ratio of my medium format camera is 1x1 so it creates square photos. I love printing photos taken with my medium format camera as 12”x12” prints. I use 600 Polaroid film in my One-Step. These are the large Polaroids from the 80’s and 90’s, not the small Instax kind that are more popular today. Each pack gets 8 shots. I like the larger polaroids because they last better with time, and they are “higher resolution” than the smaller Instax. Film for all three formats are available in color and B&W.

Film can be added on to any package and the specific cost is dependent on the final amount of rolls shot at the end of the day! So if you add on 2 medium format rolls, and 2 35mm rolls but we only shoot one of the 35mm rolls you will pay for only what we shot. Rolls are rounded up to the nearest whole roll, so if we shoot 2.5 rolls, you are charged for 3.

All film packages include

• High quality digital scans of every single photo we take together.

• Color corrected images that are very minimally edited to maintain the natural film look.

• Polaroids are taken home with me to be scanned, then you will be sent the scans digitally and the originals back via mail.

• Original non-polaroid negatives can be purchased for $100 per roll. This is for the people that may want to rescan the negatives in the future or archive them, themselves.

When film is added onto a package it will be shot throughout the durations of the day along side the digital photos. Usually we will focus more on film during posed portraits since that time is a little more relaxed, but I try to get shots of all the key moments on film.