KKE – Film photography for a local architects

By Hamish Gill

26 June, 2016

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I haven’t posted any film photography that I’ve taken for work for a little while. I should make more effort really, as quite often it’s the photography I enjoy taking the most. I run a little film photography off shoot of my creative agency (F8 Creates) – we shoot a lot of digital, but when its film, it’s Shoot Rewind

This particular job primarily involved taking some head shot portraits of a team of architects in Worcester. KKE are a creative team, and as such it seemed quite fitting to shoot them on film. They agreed, so that’s what I did.

Using TPE we timed the shoot so I could frame the portraits with the office building in the background whilst the sun glanced across the faces of the team. All the headshots were taken with the Leica M4, Zeiss 50mm ZM Sonnar and Kodak Portra 400.

Additionally to this, I also shot a range of office reportage photos, as well as a few images of the office and space itself.

To capture the nature of the business some care was taken to capture a few shots that played on the geometrical shapes within the office. For a few of these shots I also used the Zeiss 28mm ZM Biogon.

Hope you like them as much as me and my client do – I love my job sometimes!
A couple of others in the portfolio on the Shoot Rewind website

Cheers,

Hamish

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By Hamish Gill

I started taking photos at the age of 9. Since then I've taken photos for a hobby, sold cameras for a living, and for a little more than decade I've been a professional photographer and, of course, weekly contributor to 35mmc.

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Dexter on KKE – Film photography for a local architects

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

These are great man!

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Hamish Gill replied:

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

Cheers :)

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Simon on KKE – Film photography for a local architects

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

Superb images, whimdis you light the indoor shots or was it just the natural light?

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Hamish Gill replied:

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

Thanks. Just natural - big windows and a lot of white walls and furniture...

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Simon replied:

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

Sweet, totally love the look from that film stock :-)

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Aukje on KKE – Film photography for a local architects

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

These photos are very nice Hamish!
:-)

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Hamish Gill replied:

Comment posted: 26/06/2016

Hehe, thanks Aukje :)

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Alex Hakimi on KKE – Film photography for a local architects

Comment posted: 28/06/2016

Thanks for sharing some of your professional work Hamish. Very nice indeed. Do you have a preferred exposure index for Portra 400? I typically overexpose it by 2/3 stop, rating it as EI 250, and process normally. I've noticed that even a slight overexposure has quite an impact on perceptible grain. I know how difficult it can be to slow down a film, but when you're working with an f/1.5 lens and static subjects, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. ; )

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Hamish Gill replied:

Comment posted: 28/06/2016

I shoot based on a sort of controlled version of what you can read here I probably overexpose a little in most shots - though not through differently rating the film as such. In these circumstances I take a few box speed readings around the room to gather a feel for the light, then pick a single setting that will give me a good average that errs toward over exposure for the most part of the room... if that makes sense?

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Ian Do Carmo on KKE – Film photography for a local architects

Comment posted: 08/08/2021

Beautiful work, I love how natural it seems, as if they are just going on with their days and the details of the close up photos, with the beautiful portra colour rendition.

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Hamish Gill replied:

Comment posted: 08/08/2021

Thanks, Ian!

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