This gorgeous girl is SO talented! Kate has a beautiful voice and plays piano and she was hoping to include a piano into some of her senior portraits. There are several pianos in public spaces around Atlanta and this one close to High Museum is one of my favorites and I was glad it's still there! We took some pictures around the Woodruff Arts Center in her favorite outfit.
Kate wanted an all urban location so I had shown her several options and this next spot was her top choice so we after getting pictures with the piano we drove over to one of my favorite neighborhoods near Centennial Olympic Park. I love this area so much! Around every corner there are great alleyways, murals, interesting architecture and the light is always perfect!
Kate started out in this gorgeous black dress and red boots and I'm in love with this look! She's going to Belmont University to get a degree in music and wanted to get that Nashville feel into her session.
Rebate Edges on Medium Format Film
We finished up Kate's session on one of my favorite parking decks. I love this location so much! You have the Westin and the SkyView Ferris Wheel in the background and there's hardly ever anyone around. It just puts you right in the middle of this amazing city! There's no place like Atlanta.
Kate is so creative and I wanted to give her images that really felt like her. She had shown me some of her Pinterest boards for inspiration and I wanted to stay true to that look. One of the ways I did that was by requesting that my lab, Richard Photo Lab, send me scans that included the rebate edge of my film. The rebate edge is the black border around the image captured. On 35mm film, it will show you the name of the film stock and the frame numbers. It's also the where the film sprocket holes are that your camera uses to advance your film as you take each image and how it rewinds your film back into the canister when you're finished. On medium format film, it also stores information about the settings (shutter speed, aperture and focal length) you used to take the image. This can be really helpful if you're like me and don't take the time to write all that information down and you want to know later what you did right or wrong! Beyond being useful, though, it also looks really cool! When you Google "rebate edge of film" you get a whole list of resources about how to fake it and "add" a rebate edge in Photoshop. I'd MUCH rather have the real thing! You'll see that not every image has the rebate edge included. That's because I quite often need to straighten my images and then the rebate edge would be all wonky so I just crop it out. It's obviously not a look that everyone loves so I don't even bother asking my lab to scan it for me most of the time but for the right client it's just adds something really special to their images!
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