Grasslands Landscape photography with Large format and Hasselblad X1D II 50C cameras. 

Thanks from Germany @borispahlow for this nice video. I recognize my work with a 4x5 inch Sinar P in Norway 1995.

Todd: While the Hasselblad does exceptional color , the real shots , that scratch the surface of the soul , are the black and white. I like their quality very much. Chris

Wow!!!! Such an amazing place and such amazing photos!

So enjoy and appreciate your pod casts . Great knowledge you possess! Thankyou!

That rabbit popping round the corner of the homestead at 15:03 was a lovely surprise. Walt Larson is long gone, and rabbit owns it now.

When I lived in Colorado, I spent as much time out on the eastern plains as I did in the mountains. That was something that some people didn't understand but I think it's only because they never actually spent any time out on the plains learning what the grasslands can teach and enjoying the quiet, personal experiences that await out there. This video really shows off the special magic of the grasslands that awaits those who are willing to venture out there. Great stuff, Todd.

I’m here for the hats 😊

A hauntingly beautiful video Todd, and absolutely stunning images. You really captured the vastness and desolateness of the national park. We have similar areas in the UK but I'd love to visit there one day. Many thanks for the content

Magical location. Beautiful photos. Thanks for taking us on your journey

Stunning video, music and location - This is everything i love about landscape photography.

Very cool.

What beautiful and amazing area....just begging for large format photography. Love the images.

Beautiful video, and the book about the plains sounds great.

Amazing landscapes!

Wonderful!!!!!

Man, I love your videos! Thank you for sharing!

Todd, thank for this- just made my Friday, your LF videos have kept me inspired to use these big cameras for such a long time now- thanks for posting this

I love your videos - both the aesthetic, as well as the practical technical explanation about overexposing and under developing.

Your videos are always a treat. Even your music selection is excellent. Thanks for taking us along on you trip to the Grasslands.

There is something special about the Prairies and sorry to say many people bypass it thinking it is flat and boring. It is far from it and it is too subtle for most people hooked on the instant gratification. These lands in Alberta and Sask. invite contemplation and asking yourself where do you fit in this amazing landscape? Using a LF camera ( mine is an 8 x 10 inch) impels you to slow down and enter magical places. Well done, Todd!

This was outstanding! Love the landscape, the story and the images. Simply stunning.

Fantastic video. Thank you for this, Todd.

Man I love your videos

Loved your images from this trip Todd! Wonderful work!

Magical Todd. Could have watched for hours.

I really appreciate and enjoyed this exploration and excursion. Thank you for filming this. Loved the small creature's cameo too!

Amazing as always Todd. What a wonderful video to watch on a Friday night. That area looks really beautiful. Will get there someday. Cheers for the inspiration.

Love the images! Love to visit there.

What more could ask for, great heart felt story, excellent videography, beautiful images and learning about a place that I never knew existed. Thanks for sharing and taking us on your adventure, Todd.

Apart from the photography I love the relaxed tone of these videos. Thoughtful and insightful. Todd’s voice is magnificent as are his hats! Great content.

Good stuff Todd… Love the fact you can take a ordinary place and bring out its character. Something every photographer hopes to be able to do.

Love this video. Super inspiring. Especially your 4x5.

First time seeing your videos. Beautiful scenes and inspiring images.

Beautiful photographs

Beautiful work and vision Todd. I really enjoyed seeing you in this environment.

Saskatchewan recently came up on my radar and I always kept it in the back of my mind for a "rainy day" but after seeing this video, totally unprompted, after watching a few of your other videos, I can't help but start to actively want to be there!

The hat under the btzs dark cloth move, is what separates you pros from us amateurs. As always Todd: really like the pictures, but love the hats.

Hey Todd, lovely vid and lovely stills-as always.

Superb job, very tasteful. Beautiful imagery, good information. Very nice choice of music.

This video was so well done. I loved every moment of it. And the images you created were breathtaking. I love Grasslands National Park and you captured it beautifully.

What a wonderful and productive trip! Enjoyed the images. And the Rabbit checking you out at 15:00 was fun.

Beautiful video, beautiful photos! Great work. Also love the photo bomb at 15:02 by the curious visitor.

That was such a good piece. Its been a few years since in did the "Red Coat Trail" and I can't agree more what a special place it is. See you tomorrow.

Never been there but hope to go sometime soon. I also love the prairies. That last shot was my favorite. Great video.

This video is fabulous and is, IMO, a work of art in its own right; the cinematography and the production values are extraordinary. I've found that to be true of all of your videos that I've seen so far. Great work!

Wow! You really excelled yourself with this one, Todd. A veritable masterpiece. Atb from the UK.

Love your explanations of the feel that comes with shooting photographs. I believe I am succesful when I can convey that in a photograph. You do that very well. Looking forward to more of your videos. Keep up the good work, I find myself inspired

Some very, very good photography here... Thank you for the video!

Todd, thank you for taking us on this amazing journey. I'm totally into the images at 12:33 and 12:38; you captured a beautiful emotional landscape. Be well and travel safely. MMM

Magical Place Todd

once again absolutely stunning images capturing this magnificent vista. thank you for giving the rest of canada your insights to our wonderous country. zen billings

What a beautiful place! Very nicely captured!

I never get tired of watching this video, what a Amazing place, a photographer's paradise!!!!!!

Saskatchewan is my home, and you’ve captured it beautifully. 👏

Desolate and beautiful, I hope you have more to come with this project. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video. The grasslands remind me of the Barrens.

I have no words,magnific and unique place,fantastic photographs ,silence,no people,nature,openspace love it,the best video,compliment Todd,perfect music!

Wow! Amazing place, beautiful photographs (even on my monitor). Love to see a print in person! Thank you

Beautiful work as usual Todd, nice to see you using the Chamonix 4x5 and Hassleblad. You would love photographing the expansive landscapes, flatness and big skies of the Australian outback!

I’m fortunate to have a similar place nearby at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Chase County Kansas. Dusk there is a magical experience. That last 15 minutes before the sun drops below the horizon creates such drama on the hills and grass.

There is as much great photography here as there is grass in this prairie.

Love the church

Todd I love your channel, but I love that even more. LOL. And you wear it so cool.

Fantastic journey. The pictures are telling a story about a hard life out there. But also about the freedom. I hope I can travel to Canada one day. It's a long way from Norway though. I purchased a used Hasselblad some months ago. Love it. Keep up the good work! Subscription on your channel is done. Thanks.

For several years I shot everything with my Linhof 4x5 monorail field camera. It was good to go out with you in this video and remember some of the things I had to do for each shot. I mostly shot Agfa 400 b&W at about 360 ASA and processed it for 12 minutes in Rodinal at 1:50 and 68F. Most negatives gave me plenty of information to work with and I mostly adjusted contrast with the paper. I created and printed data sheets that my wife filled out for each shot so I would know how to process it. I kept old film boxes marked 0, +1, and -1 so I could sort the sheets in my changing bag back at camp and it was much easier to develop them in batches at home. Anyway, I enjoyed the trip with you and I really loved the color of the grasslands in the early morning and late afternoon shots. Adding a corral or a building here and there really added to the interest, too.

It's a lovely video. Thank you. I will use your concepts for farmland in the Eastern U.S. with my Sinar F. My farmland is less vast but has similarities.

As often, video is more interesting then photo.

Thank you for sharing this video. You usually don’t see photography videos filmed in my home province. I have been to the west block once and absolutely loved it. Want to go back again some day soon. I also want to get to the east block. I never thought of converting some of my landscape images to black and white from there. I think I’m going to have to do experimenting with black and white.

As well as great photography what Todd did here for me was really invoke a sense of place and his own place within that. And that for me is what being both a landscape photographer and landscape photography is all about. What's not to like ?

Nice to know you're on stocksy too, will check that out

Really stunning video! This is exactly what I love about photography process. Calm, lots of time to think about the photographs whilst enjoying the place... and the results are beautiful. My personal favourites are the two shots of the same view: around 10:46 and 11:10, love the detail on the stones on film. AND... How come no one mentions the RABBIT 🐇 at 15:03 that came to check the talk about how harsh the life would be in this shed...then nods the head: "Yeah, yeah...tell me about it!" And disapears in the shed!!😂😂 That was BRILLIANT! I mean icing on the cake. Thanks a lot for this masterpiece, there is a lot of work behind the video and it shows. Take care! 🙏

Beautiful video and photographs. I enjoyed the soundtrack too. You had a guest rabbit at 15:00, right at the corner of the homestead, by the way.

Beautiful video, beautiful location and animals. Only thing that would worry me would be the snakes in the long grass!

Wonderful thank you for the interesting video

Very nice! I love my x1d ii. Considering picking up the 35-75 zoom lens for travel. Nice photos!

Been there once, must get back (even though the rattlesnakes scare the crap out of me) An incredible place, it changes you.

What amazing photographs! and what an amazing landscape. Immense openness that I found so soothing. I am misplaced and currently live in Seattle. I felt so relaxed by the horizon that went on for ever. Todd, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. What a tremendous gift of your time. On a technical note thanks for the overexposed underdeveloped idea. I realize this is a generalized question but overexpose one stop and underdevelop by 20%? Or is that TriX only? Btw- nice hat during the beginning of the video. What a classic element of style.

Even when you think there is nothing, there is something. Wonderful work to showcase one of Canada's least appreciated landscapes. Thank you. What precautions do you take for the rattlesnakes? Tall boots? Gaiters?

Beautiful place. Having recently "done" the Tetons and Glaciers Parkway I'd really like to go somewhere where I'm the only tourist taking photos :-) Amazing though those places were the sheer number of people (and cars) reminded me of a theme park. Currently living in California so loved the clouds in your shots. What time of year did you do the video ? Great video - you've persuaded me to get a Chamonix and visit that area.

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hey Todd, love your videos, thanks! what shutter release cable is it you are using? I always break mine, yours seem to have a very nice quality :)

Thoroughly enjoy watching your photographic adventures in the prairies. Would appreciate knowing the lenses you're using on both the Hasselblad and 4x5. Thanks.

Great video and beautiful photos. What brand is the large format camera?

Hey, love the video, I feel the minimalist field/grassland landscapes are very underrated, you made them look great, I especially love that first buffalo shot. Also I know you talked about upbeat but would you happen to know the name of the song at the start of the video? Thanks and keep up the good work.

Wow! What a beautiful location! Beautiful pictures! Thanks for explaining pulling film. Will have to try it. Btw, what focal length do you use on your 4x5 for the wide landscape views?

You should sell prints! Id buy some from this video.

Hello from France Todd. I have X1D2 and would like to know what kind of filter you are using (the type of set). Thank you. Inspiring work.

Thoroughly entertaining and informative, Todd. What lenses do you have for your 4x5 ? Which do you carry ?

Awesome video. What cameras were you using?

It's been 11 years since I was in the West Block. Is the Belza Ranch still standing? It looks like some of the Larson Ranch outbuildings are gone!

Beautiful work, Todd. Is there any cell phone coverage in the park now?

How does the X1D II 50C handle with dust and sand, especially when you photographed sand dunes ?

I want to ask, @Todd Korol, how do you stay safe from the rattle snakes?

Put that in your A.I. picture and smoke it !

What is it with farmers, Wrecked cars and abandoned machinery randomly placed in the landscape? You should try and get down under, the outback has similar empty-ness. With all the rain we`ve had it`s blooming.

Using the center column of a tripod defeats the whole purpose! Lose that column and get a taller tripod! 😊

FYI....glass graduated filters are old technology and weigh a lot. You can get the same results in post processing.