Complicated Things is an educational RU-vid channel designed to give photography enthusiasts insight into the inner workings of the photo industry. It’s hosted by celebrity portrait photographer Mark Mann.
Mark has over 25 years of industry experience and brings it all to the videos. Episodes will focus on Mark's industry insights and are designed to help photographers navigate the photo industry. Topics include how to make a budget, organize a test shoot, select gear, build a remote broadcasting set-up, and more.
03:36 honestly the photo looks pretty bad, don't try to justify it's just a bad photo, period. Even with good light conditions it has motion blur and a lot of noise. Use an old digicam with optical viewfinder and you'll get better results and also you'll save money.
i just ran across this video today (7/27/24) ans you put your finger right on why I shoot at f2.8 as my sweet spot on my 85mm Nikon lens...I LOVE THE FALL-OFF. I've never known till watching your video, that that's the right thing for me to say when explaining why I shoot at that setting...so thank you! And I'm a nut for Bokeh, too, so there's also that. Thanks!
This is great. I imagine shooting full open has a more pronounced fall off effect when shooting tighter compositions compared to head and including shoulders and or more. The blown out cheek and hair become the background compression in the photo creating that depth when shooting tighter. Shooting medium head to waist would likely not give the artistic benefit unless your background was in need of compression.
I caught the film bug about 1½ years ago and I absolutely love it. Knowing I was paying for each shot really made me more considered, and by extension improved my digital photography as well. Times have gotten kinda hard though and I couldn't afford to shoot a bunch so I've not done any film for a few months. A lab box might just make it affordable again so I'm very interested. I've never developed my own - what are your thoughts on using wetting agents in the final rinse?
Amazing those pictures will definitely get more than 2likes just add mine😊. Please can explain your light a bit more, it was all steady light and no modifier ?
so this is basically a copy of an old Agfa Rondinax-35U film tank. The only difference there is that Rondinax film guide was also acting as a film counter allowing you to roughly estimate number of frames loaded - the idea behind this was that the more film gets into the spiral, the more the guide lifts up, so there was a small sectored indicator near the tank's lid with the extended guide tip as a needle moving inside.
Nice setup. Do you or could you use the stand to also digitize old photographs? and objects like jewelery or circuit boards? what else could you use this for?
Is there any disadvantage to using a tripod and mirror instead of a copystand and level? All that matters is that the negative lies flat & is perpendicular to the very center of the camera, right?
does anyone know what the stand is that's has the plates on, I'm in the UK and would be interested. not of this equipment is showing on the Foto Care website.
65 likes and 6500 views? This is epic stuff. What are people watching if they aren't watching Mark Mann? Definitely one of my favorite photographers and seems like a really nice guy. With a typical Scottish sense of humor. Oic
Hello there ! thanks for the demo, i can't find the omega carrier anywhere (even on foto care), I already have same omega holder as in the video. any tips on that ? thanks
Emulsion down (so that numbers are readable)! Makes sense, since there's no difference to shoot through the base or not, as the DoF is so large that it would make no difference (and the base is as homogenous as can be). Same way that I do my 4x5 scans (and the smaller ones). I use an Olympus m43 camera with 80 MP high-res pixel-shift instead of a 100 MP Fuji GFX - far cheaper, and I already had the camera … 😁
I've been watching your channel for the last few days, and this is one of the most informative places for photographers on this platform! I don't know why here is not so much attention to your videos especially since your photography is amazing too. Wish more people will come here!
Hi Mr.Mann, huge admirer here. Just wondering when you use the wb card do you use it once to set your camera or do you recalibrate everytime you move the lighting? Thanks :)
As far as I know Julia Margaret Cameron was not Scottish. Her father was English and her mother a French aristocrat. Julia was born in British India and later moved back to the UK with her husband.
The human eye is always looking for areas of brightness and of sharpness. Bright eyes, in sharp focus draw the attention immediately. It's like the subject is in the room with you. I changed to shooting more wide-open portraits after seeing the cover of Guy Martin's "My Autobiography" book. Guy Martin has amazing eyes and this image taught me that it's really about the eyes. I have no interest in his ears or the wallpaper.
Top class big man, love everything about that image. Got my juices flowing. Reminds me of a pic of Harrison Ford in a two page spread in some magazine in the 80s. Loved that pic and did a hyper realistic pencil drawing of it back in the day. I’m considering that very camera - could you make the raw files of those images available for download so I can see it in the flesh, or is that verboten?
Mark, I really liked your review. I own the Lab-box and it feels like a crap shoot getting results. I have had some impressive results. However, some of my rolls come away sticking to one another. I am told that it has to do with alignment but tend to believe that it may be the film itself. Thoughts?
