In his own words, Josh Moates

In his own words, Josh Moates shares how he found not only photography, but his way back to film photography!! Thank you, so much Josh for sharing and inspiring us, we are really excited to hear you have whipped out the RB67 for your wedding work. Josh is one half of a photography team in Pratville, Alabama called Kim Box Photography. Josh and his partner, Kim shoot everything from weddings, to portraits, to musicians and commercial work. He believes there is definately a place in his business for digital capture, but when he is shooting weddings and anything fine art- it's all about the film baby!!!!!!

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In his own words:


"Drawing... Painting.....Film Photography...Music....Digital Photography... Film Photography (my life in short) I'm not a writer, I'm a talker... so I apologize in advance I would say I have a very standard photography story... so here it is.... In high school I was in AP art, painting and drawing faces for my concentration and non of my friends would stand still enough for me to use them as models... so, my mom gave me her fujica 35mm camera with the standard 50mm lens so I could take photographs of my friends and then paint and draw them. Well the paintings were ok and the drawings were a little better... but I liked the photographs better than both. Few years later, I took a class in college on photography. I learned developing and darkroom, and it was a blast. It was a start but I was also in a band and all my attention was devoted to being on MTV. No joke.... So when our band needed photos.. I pulled out the fujica and the 50mm and we shot photos... they were cool.. I had a tripod and a timer... and that is how I did it.. so FF>> a few years later my band 2002 (TRUSTcompany) gets a record contract with Geffen records and I travel the US and Europe for the next 3 years... Meet everyone from Vanillia Ice to Alicia Keys..and it hit me, WOW I need a dang camera to document this journey... so I researched and got a Canon 10D it think this was early 03 late 02 ... man I was stoked... I shot Everything from our drummer in the studio to random things in L.A. ...other bands wanted me to shoot their stuff.. I actually got one band pic in Guitar magazine.. it was only 3 inches tall.. but I was freakin out.. my band members were like .. "dude, our band has full spreads in like 5 magazines, why are you freaking out about a little pic like that".. I said " but, that is MY PHOTOGRAPHY" .. it was really cool... anyway.. on tour, I met a model that was just starting out and I told her I would love to shoot her just for fun... and we did, all day... 9 hrs of 6 mega pixel fun.. most of the photos sucked.. but the ones that were good, I was happy with and she was too .. so it was a success... maybe 10 shots out of 1200 were good... we have all been there and its a beautiful thing... FF>> few years later I decide to quit the band and start my own photography biz 04'... and I meet a local photographer "KIM" she also shot digital and I met with her and asked if she wanted a partner and being that she had already shot weddings for a year, but didnt know Photoshop at all, and I have been using Photoshop since college.. it was a good team... so Kim Box Photography was born..... and we began to grow like crazy.. 30 weddings a year each... In the meantime, I move into a new house and when moving found a box of old film stuff from college... and was like "woah.. these look cool"... something fresh and new but old.. weird.. I was fascinated ... so I researched again and I bought an rz67 a fellow photog gave me a whole bag of 120 kodak NC ... and I started to shoot film again.. not a weddings, yet.. but for fun...art stuff.. just kinda testing the waters... and when I got the first roll of 120 back scanned... I was like WOAH... this is AMAZING... now I knew I couldnt shoot little babies and fast running kids with this beast.. but my fine art stuff will be 100% rz! and it has been.. I also shot some magazine stuff with it and all band stuff with it.... and its great... I started to incorporate the rz in weddings a few years back,..and it has been awesome... it slows me down and inspires me, makes me think about every shot.. instead of CLICK CLICK CLICK... and the results are worth it... now I shoot weddings with a 5d, rz and with a Contax 645 with the 80mm 2.0 for that shallow DOF... that camera is so amazing, especially when I finally found a lab that knows whats up... like Richard photo lab... thanks for the great color guys... now when I get my film back its like christmas for real... but Digital has its place.. I still shoot Digital for seniors and babies .. i think it has the sharpness they want.. and it works for that.. there is something about film at weddings that just is romantic, organic and raw... I compare Film and Digital to listening to a Record and a CD.... CDs are Perfect and for some recordings that is what you want.. but throw on a record and listen ..I put on Pink Floyd.. Dark Side of the Moon .. record.. its just different... beautiful...."

Here are some of Josh's beautiful images all shot on Film!!! If you would like to see more of Josh's images, go to their website at http://www.kimboxphotography.com.






okay, there are a few more lovely filmy images to add, but I will have to add them in the next day or two, as there are errors in the files, more to come, soon!!!