Studio Freshh started as an umbrella for creative projects revolving around audio and video storytelling. As time went by, those projects largely took a backseat while other career paths were followed.
The Studio has recently been revived as a home for photography services.
Services
Portrait photography
Nature and Landscape
Experimental
Architecture
Product
Event
The People
Studio Freshh is operated by Jeph Foust, a lifelong photographer who has a fascination with old vintage camera lenses and cameras made in the former Soviet Union. Jeph makes photos in a fully manual workflow, with a slow, deliberate process – definitely not run and gun.
The Gear
Lenses
Photos are exposed through a collection of vintage manual lenses. Focal length varying from 24mm through 200+mm. The lenses get mounted on various camera bodies – both film and digital (via adapters). Lens formats include Canon, M39, M42, Olympus, Minolta, Super Takumar, among others.
Lenses in Use
- Super Takumar: 28mm, 35mm, 50mm M42 thread mount
- Canon: FD/FL – 28mm, 50mm, 200mm
- Industar 26m 50mm, 61LD 50 mm (with radioactive lens coating), 69 28mm wide angle pancake
Cameras
All digital photographs are SOOC .jpg using Fujifilm X series cameras (more specifically, cameras using X-Trans I, II, and III only). I may also break out an old Sony NEX-f3 as well, especially to shoot video. All film photographs are made using my collection of old Canon, Minolta, Yashica, FED, Zorki, Kiev… camera bodies. The collection is mostly 35mm, but there are also some 120 – medium format cameras available as well (great for portraits).
Cameras in Use
Digital Cameras
- Fujifilm: X Pro1, X T1, X100f. These three cameras comprise the first three generations of the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor. I use these specific cameras because of the much lauded “look” of the photos captured with these sensors, and because I just really like the form factor of each (in their own right).
- Sony: NEX F3. I have had this camera far longer than Sony probably expected. It really has a special sensor – different from the X-Trans – but the same in size. This workhorse is wonderful.
Film Cameras
35mm
- FED: FED 2, FED 5B
- Zorki: Zorki 4 (1967 50th anniversary commemorative model).
- Kiev: Kiev 4A
Medium Format
- Yashica: Yashica D, Yashica LM
- Diana clone
Film
Using cameras that hold 35mm, 120, Polaroid (600 and SX-70), Instax. For 35mm and 120, Kodak Portra is preferred. There’s also a selection of experimental (expired) films available.