Missions Trails Mini Session | The Schaub Family

Hannah Mann November 13, 2015

Sweet kids, a happy family, and a chilly fall afternoon.

Hey, friend!

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I'm Hannah! You'll find me in beautiful Boise, ID raising three crazy little loves with my man and photographing the loveliest, loving-est people. {Read more}

Instagram happenings...

When we moved into our home I had no idea how I wanted the master bedroom to look (six months in I still don’t, and it's totally not done 🙈), except for one thing: white textured oversized bedding, that actually fit well on our king sized bed. And who knew, that legitimately didn't exist anywhere that I could find! Super lucky for me, not long after I finally gave up on that idea I found out that one of my long time client’s sisters started @muslincomfort because she had also been searching high and low for the same thing I had been, and decided to change the fact that it didn’t exist. I have been using Shyla’s muslin bedding (and hand towels and crib blanket) for several weeks now and I have been meaning to give her a shout out for too long. I love my bedding, love that it’s soft cotton, love that it can be washed and bleached easily, and love that it’s simple and clean and low maintenance. I love that the towels dry so fast but are also thick and absorb so much water (and I actually use the crib blanket as a towel as well, like in the bath time video I shared of Leo!). Every piece I own is perfect. I definitely do not plug random products, ever, but I definitely DO love sharing what great women I know are doing, and especially when you can’t find it anywhere else. Thanks Shyla for reading my mind and making these! Now maybe in another six months my room will actually be somewhat finished. 😜

Raising boys has confirmed every suspicion I’ve ever had that boys are nuts. It has also confirmed that it’s impossible not to love them for it. Except for the part where Parker flooded our bathroom this weekend and my six month old house had water gushing from the second story bathroom down through our kitchen ceiling and our hallway now has water damage along all the baseboards. 🚽😬

I gave Leo a major haircut tonight, and I’m not sure if it was a great idea or if I’ll cry in the morning. The thing is, the kid has the goofiest hair. It always stuck straight up when it was shorter and is crazy fine and straight, so I just let it grow because then at least it started to lay down and not look like Einstein. But now it hangs straight in his eyes (yes, even with hair product), so he’d developed a major bowl cut and Justin and I just laughed at him all the time as he ran around with the goofiest haircut ever. I did the man bun - which I personally love - buuuut none of the male members of my family liked it at ALL. 🤣 So this evening, I cut it off. And guess what - it’s still just as fluffy as it used to be and is sticking out all over the place. I’m hoping the fact that j kept it long on top will make it cute enough..... Photos coming tomorrow if I don’t decide this is a decision to completely regret. 🙈🤷🏼‍♀️🤣 Family on #portra400 #35mmfilm scanned by #thefindlab.

Yesterday I talked a bit about what film actually is and how photographers end up with digital images from it. Basic stuff, but important - and not something that a lot of people actually know! Today, I want to share why I love shooting it. •
Shooting film is not more convenient. It’s not cheaper or easier. Nothing about it feels safer - I can’t check my images as soon as I make them or take ten shots in a row of a squirmy babe just to make sure I got exactly what I wanted. •
So, why? First off, aesthetics. I love, love, LOVE the look of it. I realized early on that the work I loved most was done on film. There are ways of editing your photos to get SO close to the look of film that for a while it seemed unnecessary. To many people, this is enough. For me, it just wasn’t. I can still see differences is my own work when I’m shooting film vs. digital, partly because I truly see a difference in the photos, and partly because I work differently. •
My second why: with film, I am more intentional and pay incredibly close attention to details I may not worry about with digital because I can edit things out or take a few more photos if I don’t love what I did the first time. When I’m shooting film, I have to focus, and think more deeply about what I do before I press the shutter. I’m far from the first person to say this, but I’ll echo everyone else honestly: film makes me a better photographer. It forces me to really SEE what is in front of my lens and take charge to create the scene I want to portray. There’s not so much room for waste - and while I don’t love every film photo I take, I deliver a much higher percentage of them than when I’m shooting digital. •
This doesn’t mean that there aren’t film and digital images matched nearly perfectly, or that clients can look at two images and tell which is film. Not at all. But I experience higher satisfaction with and joy from my work when I’m using film. It does what I want it to, and it makes me really happy. It helps me achieve the aesthetic that I want, and it helps me work better, and I love it for that. 🙌🏻

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