Editorial & brand
Stills for campaigns, lookbooks and magazine stories on Portra, Ektar and Tri-X. Delivered as 16-bit TIFF and graded JPEG.
35mm · 120 · Super 16
Quiet pictures,
made on film.
Mintgrain is a two-person studio shooting editorial, brand and landscape work on film. We develop, scan and grade everything ourselves, so the grain you see is the grain we shot.
Selected work
Personal series, shot between commissions.
North Sea
Portra 400 · winter 2025
Dune studies
Ektar 100 · summer 2026
Low fog
Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600
Above the valley
Portra 160 · autumn 2026
What we do
Small crew, long lenses, a lot of patience. Most projects run one to three shooting days.
Super 16 motion
Short brand films and loops shot on Vision3 stock, scanned at 4K. Footage arrives through a private client gallery.
Develop & scan
C-41 and black-and-white processing with double-pass scans for photographers who shoot their own film.
From the journal
All notes →
Pushing Portra 400 two stops in winter light
What actually happens to colour and grain when you rate Portra at 1600 and why we keep doing it anyway.
Why we scan every frame twice
Averaging two passes removes scanner noise without touching the film grain. A short note on our scanning setup.
Super 16 for small brand films
Short brand films on Super 16 cost less than people expect. Here is how we budget a one-day shoot.
Free grain packs
Blank frames from our test rolls, scanned at 6K. Use them over your own stills or footage.