This time last year my friend Simone, her babies & I went to the Burleigh Markets & the park. The kids were dressed in matching I’m so cute it’s scary outfits which were adorable, and it was also my first time shooting Kodak Portra 400 after hearing everyone talk about it for a few years.

This is the first roll of film where i was happy with 95% of the photos and I do think it’s thanks to Portra 400. Portra has a pretty fine grain so you aren’t bombarded with it like some other films (*cough cough* Lomography) so it doesn’t distract. You get a high quality photo with beautiful colours, some film grain but no one element of the photo distracts from the subject which is something I love about it.

On this particular roll I was really happy that the close up photo of Lilly on the swing turned out to be perfectly in focus as I waited quite a while to press the shutter, and the photos of Mason on the blanket turned out exactly how I wanted them to, if not even better. I need to start taking more photos of them together as a family but in the moment it proves harder than you would think!

I recently purchased some Kodak Portra 160 and can’t wait to see what the results are like.

Photos taken on Canon AE-1 Program with 50mm lens and Kodak Portra 400 35mm film.