Hey there yall!

I just wanted to share this super lil dreamy film that was done of a wedding day in Norfolk, Virginia last fall. It was a gorgeous, October wedding at the Hermitage Garden and Museum. The lighting was absolute perfection that day.

As a wedding photographer who absolutely loves solely photographing, I have enjoyed dipping my feet into the world of Super 8 films. I am always going to work at improving my skills, technique, and overall style with filming with Super 8. So many ideas that I have yet to try, but hopefully will this year! There’s a couple things I’d love to film personally and professionally with this type of format.

It does cost quite a bit to purchase Super 8 film, process, and scan. That’s the beauty and curse that comes with shooting on film. Magical and unique looking but pricey. Digital films have their place as well as using film to capture video with everything, and there are SO many amazing Virginia videographers out there! Folkes Film is a husband and wife duo that I absolutely love! I also love the look of Kkinscreative, although we’ve never worked together.

I choose to use Super 8 because I think it captures a certain essence of any wedding style or day. It also captures a wedding day a little differently as I film in spurts throughout the day. If you can book both digital and me for Super 8 film I highly recommend it.

I hope you enjoy this filmy, wedding dream film.

One of my best friends, Victoria, came into town recently to visit after what seemed like ages with everything that has happened in 2020. We are both artists, so having time to be free thinking and create is imperative. She hadn’t been to the Outer Banks, North Carolina before so I decided we should go there for a night while she was in town. We stayed socially distant of people the entire time which is a welcoming concept in my mind.

We arrived to the beach in the early afternoon and set up a mini beach camp right off highway 12. Barely anyone nearby, we had an entire section of the beach to ourselves to sunbathe and dip in the ocean. In the evening, we sat on our AirBnb deck and painted and drew. The cicadas whispering in nearby woods and a neighbors music lightly playing in the distance. We discussed waking up at sunrise the next morning to catch it from the beautiful Jockeys Ridge. It is the tallest living sand dune on the Atlantic coast and its ancient presence is unequivocal. I have chosen this spot to photograph with clients before but had never actually gone with friends to relax or watch the sunrise. As artists, we both brought our cameras to capture the beauty.

We arrived just minutes before the sun rose. I had brought a white, linen dress for Victoria to wear for just the occasion of galavanting around the dunes. I took my camera out to test, and the humidity immediately fogged up my lens that wasn’t acclimated to the temperature. I continued to do test shots even with the their being a slight softness and fog to the photos. Even those shots had character to add to the story of that morning.

I think as artists we were so happy to be creating while the sun continuous rose and fell upon us and the dunes. It created interesting shadows, golden hues, and cloud colors. This was the only sunrise I had experienced all summer, and I’m so glad we decided to rise to the occasion.