Hey folks.. thought I’d use the latest video release on our YouTube channel as an opportunity to write a well overdue blog post. The video, featured below, is the final episode in the ‘Phlog’ series that Jake and myself filmed whilst traveling through Europe and Morocco.
The series aims to provide viewers with an insight into how and why we capture particular photographs. In the final episode, we are approaching the end of our time in Morocco, where we shot a lot of street scenes.
We spent the majority of our time on Morocco’s west coast, in a town called Essaouira. The main point of attraction in Essaouira is its large fishing port, which plays host to lively mornings of trading between fisherman and street vendors.
With so much action taking place there, this part of town was an area that I knew I wanted to try and capture before leaving. I decided to shoot the majority of photographs here with Fuji Pro 400h film on my medium format camera, the Mamiya 645.
I had managed to capture similar scenes earlier in our trip, whilst traveling through Romania and Spain, which is why I opted to continue with the medium format film approach. Fuji Pro has become my go to film stock, and I was pleased with how these shots turned out.
What I found most challenging whilst shooting around the port was capturing subjects before they moved from the position that originally grabbed my attention. Shooting digitals on a camera with nice auto focus would have been a completely different ball game, but it was a great way to push myself.
Anyway, here are a few more shots from the roll.. these were all scanned with my Epson v800. Enjoy!
