Film in Fashion Photography - Mamiya RZ67

As you all know I am a student (For now), and with the student budget I can't afford to buy my dream camera PhaseOne 645 IQ180.
Because I don't have the medium format + Digital back camera that doesn't mean I can't have a Medium format camera.
Old cameras now are a lot cheeper than they were back in their time thats why couple of months ago I bought my very own Mamiya RZ67 ProII.

However as I mentioned before digital is only very recent development in Photography.
Digital photography used in fashion photography since early 2000's
1990's were mostly Film and before that was Film and Film alone.

If you look at todays results and comparison in film and digital one can easily see Film can still easily compete with Digital.

However there are some drawbacks in film that makes the current Commercial/Fashion photographers go for digital and the biggest one of that is Film Slows the Workflow. 
There are still some really good photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Patrick Demarchelier, Ara Guler, Bill Cunningham and many more using film.

I am not going to sit and write about which one is better which one is the best. As a person who shoots film and digital I can say that I like them both and I'll use both of them as long as I can.

Since I shoot film in fashion as well as digital, I'd like to share what I go through while I am shooting film. 

Some people might know I am sometimes greedy on certain things when I know the real cost and thats the reason I don't give my negatives to develop to developing/processing Labs.
I process and scan the negatives my self and sometimes I find that faster since I use dip and dunk tanks to process negatives (dip and dunk tanks can take 9 medium format or 12 35mm film in one go).

However here is what happens when I shoot film.

Shoot  Day > Process negatives > Dry Negatives > Cut Negatives > File + Label > Scan > Photoshop > Print

And here is what happens when I shoot Digital. 

Shoot day (tethered  camera to laptop) > Photoshop > Print

But seing the result of the film makes you appreciate that you shot film. 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)

Makeup artist: Alice Bizarre

Model: Gina Harrison

Camera: Mamiya RZ67P ProII + Mamiya Sekor Z 127mm 

Film: New Kodak Portra 160 

Scanned with Hasselbald Flextight 1 scanner 

Pink

Fashion Photography - Beauty Shoot - Pink 

Camera: Nikon D700 + 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bruce (ME)
Hair & Makeup: Alice Bizarre
Model: Gina

BEHIND THE MAKEUP

Behind every great Makeup there is a great Makeup artist. 

Watch on 720p or 1080p on youtube

OR enjoy on Vimeo

Video Shot on Nikon D7000

Not bad for a camera which doesn't even have sync  socket. 

Frustrated (test)

Fashion Photography - Beauty shoot
Here is a photo that I'll be printing large soon (7hours from this post time)

Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Hair and Makeup: Alice Bizarre
Model: Dasha

Killer RED

Fashion photography - Test Beauty shoot 

Brace your self beauty shoots are coming. 

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200 VR II 

Photographer: Bugra ERGIL (Bruce)
Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Ekaterina
Assistant: Anup K Pandey

On this photo I'll actually explain it how I lit it.

2 strobes (SB900 units)
1 softbox - Key light Above her (light meter reading is f11)
1 octobox - Fill light infront of her looking from up to down 45° (light meter reading is f8)
+ silver reflector on her lap

Chimping - Is photojournalism dying ?

Will the photojournalism become uncommon like blacksmith or chimney sweeps? 

This video should be viewed by any PHOTOGRAPHER (Fashion photographer, photojournalist, commercial photographer, wedding photographer, sports, event, entusiast  etc. . . )

Out of every photographer, the ones that I respect the most are photojournalists, not the photojournalists that work for the tabloids which I mean by celebrity and stupid news stuff such as "monkey running from zoo and driving a car" to take the front page or "some celebrity drinking and driving" but those photojournalist that take the photos of war, those journalist that show the world how much people suffering.

In my opinion that is one of the professions that should not change. Other people taking photographs for news are fine for me but those actual photojournalists has to be there because they are willing to push the limits to get the photographs.

Fashion Photography - Beauty Shoot

Snak peek of my current project. 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Stephanie
Assistant: Anup K Pandey

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200 VR II

Here is a Photo, of the project I always Wanted to do.
Out of every type of photography beauty photography is my favorite, then comes Diptych and after that is the editorial.

There are four more shoots scheduled ahead that means four different models and 8 different looks.