An Evening at Langdon Hall with Diana & Mat

we’ve been keeping an exciting secret… this year we have been quietly shooting film photography at sessions!

I know, I know… everyone and their bff has been incorporating film into their wedding / photo packages for yearssss now, either fully shooting film or a combination of both film and digital. While we have no plans to go fully film, we all have been shooting film for personal work for decades now, we just haven’t really had an interest to mix it into our work work you know? But with more and more people specifically asking for it we thought… why not try it out? And thus, we have been bringing along and shooting some rolls of film this year and it has really reignited a love for slowness, classic colours and tones, and overall we’ve been enjoying this very lovely nostalgic feeling to photos.

Back to Diana and Mat! We were so excited when they reached out learning that they were having a wedding reception at Langdon Hall and mostly wanted photos of themselves around the property, and if time allows, some photos with family and friends before dinner begins. They legally got married just before their reception with one of the city’s best officiants, Tade Credgeur AKA The Marrying Lady. If you didn’t know, Tade offers ‘cere-minies’ at a park in our neck of Toronto, Fred Hamilton Park, and funnily enough that’s where Diana & Mat eloped, a weekend after we just crossed paths with Tade at a different wedding! It’s a small work, and even smaller industry!

Diana and Mat are our kind of people; effortlessly chic, so clearly smitten with each other, and mostly importantly really receptive and open to direction! Editorial style wedding photography isn’t for everyone and we don’t always prompt people to get serious and put their modelling faces on, especially if it’s not your vibe, but it is fun to play around with and play we did! I

With all of this being said, the only film photos from this session are at the bottom of the post because I (Stef) was using Ethan’s Mamiya 645 to shoot and to my surprise (lol) it is quuuuuite different than my Hasselblad 500c. I thought about bringing a medium format camera to this shoot— I knew we’d have a lot of time, wouldn’t be super rushed or pressured with a long shot list, and the venue is incredible— but unfortunately my camera needed to be sent in for repairs but having this idea in my mind already I decided to use Ethan’s camera despite not being familiar with it… what could go wrong? Let’s just say: good thing we had a lot of time lol! It was an on the fly learning curve for me, but it was so fun nonetheless and I can’t wait to do it again!