35mm film stock can be a daunting place, particularly when you are starting out. With that in mind, I decided to film and track my progression in 35mm film, reviewing the different film stocks, cameras and gear I use. Hopefully you will find it useful.

I have been a part time photographer for 15 years. Shooting over a 100 weddings, some small corporate and commercial gigs as well. Always balancing it with a day job (well apart from a 3 year gap when all I did was weddings). I found that my love of Photography was at its best when i wasn't totally focussed on the business side of it, so i decided to carry on working a city job whilst always making room for 5 weddings each year and some other work. That way, I stay in love with Photography.

About 3 years ago I hit a small crisis of confidence in photography and after some artist sole searching I decided that my inferior complex was partly down to the fact I came in to this area as a fully digital photographer.

Something you might say isn't a problem. However, for me, Photography has always been more than a simple photo, I see it as a artistic vision that I get to portray, particularly in my street photography work. I love story telling and love to create an image that tells lots of stories in one shot. Anyway, im digressing. My point here is that i felt by not learning what clearly is the soul of photography I was somehow missing my foundations and I was starting to sway.

So, I set about slowing grabbing some cheap second hand cameras (Nikon F65) and some basic Fuji 200 colour. Then I bought a Nikon F301, a few more older lens (as well as some newer Nikon lens I had) and boom.

Thats it, I have learnt how to shoot on a camera made in 1985, learnt (although im still very bad at this) how to develop my colour shots. Learnt about pushing and pulling and what happens. Even had a peak in to the commercial side of devolving and printing and I am keen to keep on learning.

I have a vision for this channel that i can bring you lots of cool shots with films, show you so that you can decide before forking out your hard earned cash. At the same time, do it with my normal geeky personality, you know, a bit of history to the films, maybe even show you some processing , scanning etc. So sub to join the fun.

I love to make films, shoot photography in general and i don't subscribe the notion a channel on youtube has to be so specific so you will see a few vlogs, silly stories and even some bigger productions on things i am passionate about. However, you can find all the 35mm films neatly saved under the playlist '35mm'.

Thanks so much for reading, if you have gotten this far, then throw a comment in the vid, id love to know if anyone reads my ramblings on here :)

Have fun

Scott

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