Aug 11, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
If you’ve been wanting to incorporate film into your wedding photography but have NO idea where to start, this episode is for you! Today I’m chatting with film and editorial wedding photographer…
Loraleah MarieGuest
Rachel TraxlerHost

The difference between the scanners, Frontier scanner is where you can mostly get, like, borders on your film, and then that scanner is gonna have more contrast.

I feel like with Noritsu, you can actually, like, bring more color back into it.

Um, but basically I'm picking the scanner based on how I want my film to look.

So if I'm shooting, like, inside a dark church, and I say I want my film to be more punchy, more contrasted, like, I'm gonna use the Frontier scanner.

But if I'm shooting, like, maybe outdoors, a beach session, I want to be, like, softer contrast, I'm probably gonna use Noritsu.

My advice is, like, kinda do your research on the scanners, and then kinda when you're scanning your film, decide what scanner you wanna use.

And then also with pushing and pulling, so basically you can shoot at the actual film stock.

If you put it in your camera, you shoot it at 400, or you have the option to tell your camera you're shooting at, like, 800 or 200.

So basically you're tricking your camera, like- For example, if I'm in, like, an indoor, like, church and I only have Portra 400 and it's too low of an ISO to shoot in the church, I can switch my camera and tell it I'm shooting 800 film stock.

And then when I go to get my roll developed, I'm gonna tell the lab to push my roll one stop, so they're gonna develop my film longer to match the 800 rather than 400.

... and organize and have laid out, especially on a wedding day when things are, like, are all crazy.


The difference between the scanners, Frontier scanner is where you can mostly get, like, borders on your film, and then that scanner is gonna have more contrast.

I feel like with Noritsu, you can actually, like, bring more color back into it.

Um, but basically I'm picking the scanner based on how I want my film to look.

So if I'm shooting, like, inside a dark church, and I say I want my film to be more punchy, more contrasted, like, I'm gonna use the Frontier scanner.

But if I'm shooting, like, maybe outdoors, a beach session, I want to be, like, softer contrast, I'm probably gonna use Noritsu.

My advice is, like, kinda do your research on the scanners, and then kinda when you're scanning your film, decide what scanner you wanna use.

And then also with pushing and pulling, so basically you can shoot at the actual film stock.

If you put it in your camera, you shoot it at 400, or you have the option to tell your camera you're shooting at, like, 800 or 200.

So basically you're tricking your camera, like- For example, if I'm in, like, an indoor, like, church and I only have Portra 400 and it's too low of an ISO to shoot in the church, I can switch my camera and tell it I'm shooting 800 film stock.

And then when I go to get my roll developed, I'm gonna tell the lab to push my roll one stop, so they're gonna develop my film longer to match the 800 rather than 400.

... and organize and have laid out, especially on a wedding day when things are, like, are all crazy.
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