If you’ve seen our previous posts on large format photography, you’ll know that it’s quite a challenge to capture even a few photos on film during the hectic chaos of a wedding day!
Aaron and Aggie were keen to give it a try, so during a quiet time (few and far between during any wedding) we managed to set up the camera and get them to pose. The ground was soaking and we didn’t want to get Aggie’s beautiful dress muddy, but we needed the light for the camera so our only option was to pose them in the doorway to the house.

Aggie’s dad was fascinated with the camera

This limited our options a bit, but this was really a trial run and Aaron and Aggie had agreed knowing that there was a good chance we’d not get great results with the film camera. They loved the example large format pictures we’d shown them.

We took several shots and then all moved to the side of the house to take some group shots - hard enough with digital, but all the more so with an unwieldy large format camera. Especially when you factor in that the image you see on the screen is not only reversed side to side, but is also upside down!

We did confirm our suspicions though - people are fascinated with the camera and gathered around comfortably, so that’s a massive bonus!

We fired off the sheets we had prepared in film holders and then put them in the bag to process later, not really knowing that we had.

It’s always with a mixture of excitement and fear when you process important film images, and although we’d promised nothing, we felt quite a responsibility loading these into the development tank.

Success!

We actually got a few good shots, and Aggie and Aaron were very pleased with the results. If we have time and willing participants, we will definitely be repeating this experience.