We had such a fantastic time watching Ankita and her talented team at Weddingmana in action when we went along to see this video being filmed in Goa. They have limitless energy and such talent and enthusiasm, it really was a fantastic experience. We believe that the love and passion that Ankita has for wedding photography and for shooting black and white film really comes across in the video. We hope you enjoy watching it. Please let us know what you think in the comments below.
Thank you @Ilfordphoto for making us a part of your amazing Ilford Inspires series. We love all your previous videos and hope you continue this wonderful initiative. It was great fun making this film in Goa. Thanks to each and everyone who was a part of this video, specially Matt, Shivani, Vijay, Sanaa, Sidhanth. It's humbling to read all these kind and generous comments from the photography community. Thanks you all so much for your support. We hope to continue capturing love stories with the same zest and passion!
WeddingNama by Ankita and Akash Thank you for your most infectious enthusiasm! I suppose using film, especially b/w, is a tremendous selling point these days, compared to most - including the proportion of "cowboy" operators. The selection of cameras used certainly adds another dimension to it all. By the way, while I do not have an Intrepid, the photograph at 11:30 looks a bit odd: I cannot see how it does not have a reversing back requiring the camera to be mounted that way.
@@Seele2015au Thank you so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the video! Shooting on black and white film certainly adds a different dimension in your portfolio. About the photograph that you have mentioned, as you can see in the video, the intrepid wasn't used that way for the actual photos. We had just tilted it for a test shot and almost immediately put it back. Things happen fast in weddings and for some reason the back wasn't tilting how it normally does so as a quick solution we used the tripod head for the same thing!! And it was momentary just to check if a horizontal frame looked better. Guess that's the moment when the behind the scenes photo was made! The next second we had gone back to the vertical frame as you can see, all the photos made on that camera were actually vertical :)
"…you can say my photography is my language…" That’s just the start of a perfect philosophy, as is Ankita's attitude. Personally, and I hate photographing people, I think this is the best yet of the series. Talent, work ethic, great knowledge and passion by the bucket full. And a little nod to Fan Ho towards the end. What more can you ask for? And now I know what developer she uses.
I was waiting for you to comment Mark:) Thanks for watching and for the lovely feedback. I love that quote that you mentioned, and theres another where Ankita talks about using black and white film to shoot colourful Indian weddings where she says " ..when you remove the colour, what's left is pure emotion..." I think that's beautiful.
Thank you. She is very talented with a camera but more importantly can read the scene and is experienced enough to know when and where to be to capture the action or emotion. She makes a very tricky task look very easy!
Ilford thanks for all these videos. They are so inspiring and thanks for still making film especially 120 and 4x5. Ankita thanks for showing me a slice of Indian culture I have never see before. Your work is so good. Your clients are lucky to have you and your team.
Beautifully done! Ankita is such a great story teller with her photography and totally agree with her choice of B&W film for Wedding photography. Thanks for sharing this Ilford!
great video, and a fantastic exemplar of using MF and LF cameras in a genre not usually associated with them, and showing others you CAN, and get the boon of all that quality, it takes effort to shoot, but, having just experienced this "magic" moment myself, totally understand it, the slow thinking of 'will it work?' and knowing your film, camera and the subject so it will work!! and having the extra art of developing a print... PRICELESS.
Weddings can prove to be difficult in their own right. This young gal does an incredible job. The great thing to me (besides Ilford film) is the joy in her voice. Gotta love your job.
Thanks Scott, you are right weddings can be very challenging and the chaos, duration and number of people at an Indian wedding makes it even more so but she makes it look easy and is supported by a great team. Her passion and enthusiasm really is infectious!
Thanks David - Ankita has a great outlook doesn't she? i don't know how aybody can watch this and not be affected by the sheer joy. You can see in her black and white photos how well she captures the atmosphere and emotion of the day.
Thank you Ilford! For giving the inspiration of pulling the wagon in my home town... in my photo-shop to learn people about photography and showing the results of your beautiful films. Thank you again for this movie... this will help A LOT!
Thanks for watching John. Ankita is a very talented lady and Akash did such an amazing job filming the video. We couldn't be happier with the final film.
Since I took this step back from digital photography to film photography, I really made two steps forward in the way I m taking photos. And by the way these "ILFORD Inspires Film"-Series boosts my enthusiasm for film. Thanks a lot for that. A very happy costumer (mostly HP5 Plus) ;)
It is hard to add anything to what has already been written in the comments and replies about this beautiful and inspiring video other than one more vote of thanks to Ankita Asthana and the team at Ilford Photo. Thank you!
Very good. Takes me back to the 30 years of my shooting weddings on film before digital came in. Then I shot film and digital while transitioning. I shot mainly in colour but used Ilford xp2 for black and white. I still recommend that film to people. It was and is so versatile and very forgiving.Keep up the good work Ankita. I am now no longer fit enough to shoot weddings but I am still doing it in my head.
@@Ilfordphoto I am always intending to and I have a large collection of film cameras.I am hoping to do some over the next couple of weeks.I recently was given a Rolleiflex TLR F4 wide and I want to test it out.
I love film and made the entire switch back in spring when I realised that I was carrying around a Mamiya RB67 set and a digital around Brecon for days and had only used the digital once and all the others had been on the RB! I use both your films and Fomapan 100. Love your films and may you last forever!
Ankita, I also shoot film. I also have a Rolleiflex and Leica M4 . Film is still alive. Thanks for shooting film. Thanks for making and sharing this great video.
Thanks Jesus. It's great isn't is. We were all smiling by the time it finished. We love that Ankita let us see her full process from shooting black and white film on location to developing it herself in her studio.
Thanks Jay - I'm sure they are the first 2 of many rolls. Hopefully they turned out great and don't forget to tag us on IG or Twitter if you post them.
Thanks for watching Rachael. The DELTA 100 is a beautiful film, i like to develop it in DD-X as it so smooth. If you ever want to share some of your black and white shots with us, we'd love to see them We are @ilfordphoto on Instagram.
As a strong supporter of film, I own three Nikon film cameras 📸. The Nikon F5, Nikon F100 and the Nikon EL2. I do shoot Polaroids too with my Mission Impossible Polaroid Camera.
@@Ilfordphoto Black and whites would be the hp5+. Color film would be cinestill, kodak and fujfilm. I still use the Kodak black and white films and I have tried the Kodak Tmax P3200. All of these companies make very good film including Ilford. I have many powerful landscape photography done with Ilford HP5+ film. It is very good if your company was willing to have a gallery show. Your company would love to see my work.
With all the colors at an Indian wedding, why would anyone wanna shoot in black and white? Not to knock B&W or ilford but colors would have been better here. We are missing something when we shoot in B&W for such a colorful, joyful occasion. Haiz.
Hi Terence, we understand what you are saying. Indian weddings are so large that there are a team of photographers and videographers capturing each one. Ankita's team (WeddingNama) was shooting digital and also video for the couple so that they get colour digital files but then also something different and special - black & white negatives that will last forever! I know the couple loved the images on film!
I love Ilford and black and white in general but I have to admit Indian weddings look like they beg to be shot in colours. In saying that the photos look great.
I can't help but wince when I saw her squeegee that roll of film. Do many folks these days squeegee soft freshly developed film? It seems like such an unnecessary risk.
We had such a fantastic time watching Ankita and her talented team at Weddingmana in action when we went along to see this video being filmed in Goa. They have limitless energy and such talent and enthusiasm, it really was a fantastic experience.
We believe that the love and passion that Ankita has for wedding photography and for shooting black and white film really comes across in the video. We hope you enjoy watching it.
Please let us know what you think in the comments below.
ILFORD Photo ... yes! her testimony for shooting B&W was very well said. Keep on w/ this series plz!!
@@jmarvosa6x3 Thanks for watching James. We're glad you enjoyed it. We definitely plan to make more ILFORD Inspires videos in future.
Thank you @Ilfordphoto for making us a part of your amazing Ilford Inspires series. We love all your previous videos and hope you continue this wonderful initiative. It was great fun making this film in Goa. Thanks to each and everyone who was a part of this video, specially Matt, Shivani, Vijay, Sanaa, Sidhanth. It's humbling to read all these kind and generous comments from the photography community. Thanks you all so much for your support. We hope to continue capturing love stories with the same zest and passion!
WeddingNama by Ankita and Akash Thank you for your most infectious enthusiasm! I suppose using film, especially b/w, is a tremendous selling point these days, compared to most - including the proportion of "cowboy" operators. The selection of cameras used certainly adds another dimension to it all. By the way, while I do not have an Intrepid, the photograph at 11:30 looks a bit odd: I cannot see how it does not have a reversing back requiring the camera to be mounted that way.
@@Seele2015au Thank you so much for your kind words. Glad you liked the video! Shooting on black and white film certainly adds a different dimension in your portfolio. About the photograph that you have mentioned, as you can see in the video, the intrepid wasn't used that way for the actual photos. We had just tilted it for a test shot and almost immediately put it back. Things happen fast in weddings and for some reason the back wasn't tilting how it normally does so as a quick solution we used the tripod head for the same thing!! And it was momentary just to check if a horizontal frame looked better. Guess that's the moment when the behind the scenes photo was made! The next second we had gone back to the vertical frame as you can see, all the photos made on that camera were actually vertical :)
"…you can say my photography is my language…" That’s just the start of a perfect philosophy, as is Ankita's attitude. Personally, and I hate photographing people, I think this is the best yet of the series. Talent, work ethic, great knowledge and passion by the bucket full. And a little nod to Fan Ho towards the end. What more can you ask for?
And now I know what developer she uses.
I was waiting for you to comment Mark:) Thanks for watching and for the lovely feedback. I love that quote that you mentioned, and theres another where Ankita talks about using black and white film to shoot colourful Indian weddings where she says " ..when you remove the colour, what's left is pure emotion..." I think that's beautiful.
ILFORD Photo It is, and it shows the thought she puts into her work.
We were so glad to be a part of this, such a great video!
Shoot in colour you get the clothes, shoot in B &W you get the personalities, the soul.
what a gorgeous little production!
Thanks Aussie. I love this film. Ankita's passion for what she does just shines through
And again ilford nailed it... lovely little movie
Very well produced. I am in awe of this young lady's skill. I aspire to take photographs of this standard.
Thank you. She is very talented with a camera but more importantly can read the scene and is experienced enough to know when and where to be to capture the action or emotion. She makes a very tricky task look very easy!
Ilford thanks for all these videos. They are so inspiring and thanks for still making film especially 120 and 4x5. Ankita thanks for showing me a slice of Indian culture I have never see before. Your work is so good. Your clients are lucky to have you and your team.
Beautifully done! Ankita is such a great story teller with her photography and totally agree with her choice of B&W film for Wedding photography. Thanks for sharing this Ilford!
Thanks Shawn. She is a great storyteller as well as a talented photographer. I think her passion for what she does really shines through in this film.
great video, and a fantastic exemplar of using MF and LF cameras in a genre not usually associated with them, and showing others you CAN, and get the boon of all that quality, it takes effort to shoot, but, having just experienced this "magic" moment myself, totally understand it, the slow thinking of 'will it work?' and knowing your film, camera and the subject so it will work!! and having the extra art of developing a print... PRICELESS.
Weddings can prove to be difficult in their own right. This young gal does an incredible job. The great thing to me (besides Ilford film) is the joy in her voice. Gotta love your job.
Thanks Scott, you are right weddings can be very challenging and the chaos, duration and number of people at an Indian wedding makes it even more so but she makes it look easy and is supported by a great team. Her passion and enthusiasm really is infectious!
I love the love stories , thank you for give me a new photographer follow and admire.
Our pleasure Kern - definitely check out her IG and her own TH-cam channel.
Same here. I'm following her on IG now.
So well done Ilford!!! Looking forward to the next one. I love Ankita's philosophy about black and white capturing the emotion in a colourful scene.
Thanks David - Ankita has a great outlook doesn't she? i don't know how aybody can watch this and not be affected by the sheer joy. You can see in her black and white photos how well she captures the atmosphere and emotion of the day.
ILFORD Photo absolutely! I am sure we could all use a little more joy. This inspires me to keep shooting black and white.
Thank you Ilford! For giving the inspiration of pulling the wagon in my home town... in my photo-shop to learn people about photography and showing the results of your beautiful films. Thank you again for this movie... this will help A LOT!
Thank you. We glad you like it and we also hope it will inspire others to shoot film.
Love it! Thank you for sharing. Yes, without the color, all that is left is emotion.
Thank you Paul :)
Respected Ankita ji,
You made super cool photos !
Super inspiring! Love this video
That was beautiful. Thank you Ankita
Thanks for watching John. Ankita is a very talented lady and Akash did such an amazing job filming the video. We couldn't be happier with the final film.
Since I took this step back from digital photography to film photography, I really made two steps forward in the way I m taking photos. And by the way these "ILFORD Inspires Film"-Series boosts my enthusiasm for film. Thanks a lot for that. A very happy costumer (mostly HP5 Plus) ;)
It is hard to add anything to what has already been written in the comments and replies about this beautiful and inspiring video other than one more vote of thanks to Ankita Asthana and the team at Ilford Photo. Thank you!
Very good. Takes me back to the 30 years of my shooting weddings on film before digital came in. Then I shot film and digital while transitioning. I shot mainly in colour but used Ilford xp2 for black and white. I still recommend that film to people. It was and is so versatile and very forgiving.Keep up the good work Ankita. I am now no longer fit enough to shoot weddings but I am still doing it in my head.
Thanks for watching Geoff. Do you still shoot much film now, even if you aren't shooting weddings.
@@Ilfordphoto I am always intending to and I have a large collection of film cameras.I am hoping to do some over the next couple of weeks.I recently was given a Rolleiflex TLR F4 wide and I want to test it out.
@@pembridgehouse You should definitely get it loaded with some black and white film and shoot a test roll or 5!
@@Ilfordphoto Yes I should.
I love film and made the entire switch back in spring when I realised that I was carrying around a Mamiya RB67 set and a digital around Brecon for days and had only used the digital once and all the others had been on the RB!
I use both your films and Fomapan 100. Love your films and may you last forever!
Thanks James, because of your kind words and love of film we'll even forgive you for using Fomapan ;)
Don't you just love that robust beast of a camera???
I'm unfortunately neglecting mine 😔💔
@@myahya1987 Same here :/ haven't used it since July! Just been using my 35mm cameras instead. Will bring it out soon though!
Ankita, I also shoot film. I also have a Rolleiflex and Leica M4 . Film is still alive. Thanks for shooting film. Thanks for making and sharing this great video.
I've got camera envy Jerry! Thanks for watching
Just fabulous and inspiring!!!
She really is isn't she? I love how Ankita's passion for what she does shines through
@@Ilfordphoto thanks for your response, means a lot!! 😃 Passion is everything.
Beautiful story and this is why film is not dead 💀
Splendid! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks James - glad you enjoyed it.
Great video, loved it.
Great work! And shout out to those janky Kiev 60 cameras still going strong out there!
That was an amazing moment. That Kiev 60....
Thanks Reid - that Kiev is a beast of a camera!
Wow this makes me want to shoot film. I've got some old vintage Zeiss lenses that I use on my electronic camera.
I bet you could find a film camera that those lenses would fit on without too much trouble:)
This is so beautiful. what amazing video ILFORD Photo.
Thanks Jesus. It's great isn't is. We were all smiling by the time it finished. We love that Ankita let us see her full process from shooting black and white film on location to developing it herself in her studio.
Beautiful film! Very inspiring - I've just shot my first 2 rolls of HP5+, looking forward to see what I achieved
Thanks Jay - I'm sure they are the first 2 of many rolls. Hopefully they turned out great and don't forget to tag us on IG or Twitter if you post them.
Made me cry :-) Thank you
Hopefully happy tears!! :)
loved this.
Great film my favourite ilford film at moment is delta 100
Thanks for watching Rachael. The DELTA 100 is a beautiful film, i like to develop it in DD-X as it so smooth. If you ever want to share some of your black and white shots with us, we'd love to see them We are @ilfordphoto on Instagram.
Excellent work - more like this, please :)
Is this episode by exploredinary?
No, it is shot by Akash Agarwal who also happens to be Ankita's husband and part of the Weddingnama team
Wonderful!!
Lovely photos
Thanks for watching. Ankita is a fantastic photographer.
As a strong supporter of film, I own three Nikon film cameras 📸. The Nikon F5, Nikon F100 and the Nikon EL2. I do shoot Polaroids too with my Mission Impossible Polaroid Camera.
Great to hear. Which of our films do you enjoy shooting the most?
@@Ilfordphoto Black and whites would be the hp5+. Color film would be cinestill, kodak and fujfilm. I still use the Kodak black and white films and I have tried the Kodak Tmax P3200. All of these companies make very good film including Ilford. I have many powerful landscape photography done with Ilford HP5+ film. It is very good if your company was willing to have a gallery show. Your company would love to see my work.
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how do you started career in photography ?
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Why are wo moving toward digital medium I don like changes stay with analog stay with illford
The tilted intrepid in the end triggered me so much, it has a turnable back.
fritzlimo I think it has a reversing back, not a revolving back.
With all the colors at an Indian wedding, why would anyone wanna shoot in black and white? Not to knock B&W or ilford but colors would have been better here. We are missing something when we shoot in B&W for such a colorful, joyful occasion. Haiz.
Listen to her explanation... it is in the movie...
Hi Terence, we understand what you are saying. Indian weddings are so large that there are a team of photographers and videographers capturing each one. Ankita's team (WeddingNama) was shooting digital and also video for the couple so that they get colour digital files but then also something different and special - black & white negatives that will last forever! I know the couple loved the images on film!
I love Ilford and black and white in general but I have to admit Indian weddings look like they beg to be shot in colours. In saying that the photos look great.
I can't help but wince when I saw her squeegee that roll of film. Do many folks these days squeegee soft freshly developed film?
It seems like such an unnecessary risk.
Great video, loved it.
Thanks Andy, glad you enjoyed it.
Great video, loved it.