methods many: portraits - kodak portra 400 + tri-x 400 + ilford delta 400 + digital
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Got the chance to do a test shoot with Nicolas (@nicolas_sacroug) on a few different rolls. An excellent experience working with him, trying different things on different formats, and I think we were able to create some great portraits together. Great energy (despite the freezing temperatures) made for an excellent session. Thank you Nicolas.
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seesaws: november 2025 - kodak portra 400 + tri-x 400
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Just wanted to get a few more of these out there. Not really into Portra for color, it just feels like too rosy for my taste, plus you don’t need to spend that much to have good color and in some cases, better color. I’ll mess around more with Portra 160, I guess, just cause apparently it’s what pros use, blah blah blah. I shot the Tri-x on my junk plastic point and shoot and honestly liked the experience more than anything else, from shooting to the final results.
I have a bit more coming from these rolls, but here’s a few from each for now. Also, haven’t heard about how to help support me and my analog film work? Really? No, really? Well, click here to learn more! I’ll put in a good word to Santa.
* The first image (“grounded.“) isn’t some kind of Photoshop trickery. Looks like something happened during shooting or development, but I like the effect, so we’ll go with it.
colors of grey days - Kodak Pro Image 100 (pushed one stop)
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
Shooting on color in Paris can feel quite drab, making it understandable that would make this a great city for black and white, but the color is nice here. Kodak Pro Image is a good stock for adverse weather conditions (well, hotter temperatures at least) at its price, so I wanted to see how it performed, as it could prove to be a useful stock for the future. I’ll probably get to it again to try with some hot, hot sunny weather, an once there is more light available throughout the days here. But otherwise, the colors are pretty pleasant. Sun goes down real fast now.
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land of the red sun - Cinestill 400d (pulled one stop)
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
I wouldn’t recommend accidentally pulling Cinestill 400d, unless you really like the halation effect (that kind of glowing red halo around the lights - see ‘halo’). It seems to wash the entire image in a red cast; not something I’d like to spend the hours needed to correct. I’ve been switching between different cameras and setups lately, that I think I forgot to reset this roll (I will hardly ever pull film), also was messing around with in-camera double exposing (see ‘essentially’), but it was interesting to see despite the unintended results. Pulling not only exaggerated the red casting, but also seemed to splash some red light leak-looking things (see ‘lightest part’ and ‘homilies’) onto the image. Fingers crossed its the film and not a camera problem.
panorama camera - Expired roll
Rick Alarcon is a US photographer in Paris , France, specializing in portraits, events, and artistic photography.
I found an old point and shoot panorama camera in my things. It’s not a true panorama, but rather a 35mm point and shoot that blacks out the frame to give that panorama letterbox look. I didn’t even know I still had the camera, let alone that there was film on it. Expired film, plastic camera, light leaks, sitting in a box for years. Perfect, let’s develop it.
So here’s a roll of expired Fujifilm 200, probably from around Covid time from what I can see. Images were left untreated and at original crop, because there is no coming back for these.
There’s no lesson to take from this as it is a miracle anything came out of this roll, and though not the greatest, some nice memories of friends from a forgotten time.