How to shoot Large Format 8x10 Photography 

Thanks for watching everyone!

Wow! What that was a lot of learning from our side on the other hand that was a lot of work for one shot, but its an artist tool. Pretty intensive, Thank you for sharing and you are master of an 8x10 format. you explained very well. Awesome Thank you once again.

Reminder for everyone, x-ray film costs less than $0.50 cents a sheet and is available worldwide...

This is the best large format explanation vid on the RU-vids.

Great job with the animated images to illustrate movements. I’m getting back into LF and this was a great reminder tutorial.

The BEST Large Format tutorial!

Awesome video! I remember seeing you guys doing the paper in Mauer park a year or do ago and still am excited to try it someday! Somewhere at my mom’s in Idaho I gave a Speedgraflex I would love to try with!

Thank you for showing us the mechanics and process.

Hi Austin, thank you very much for the nice and educative video! I like the background canvas you’re using in the shooting with Renée. Which type is it and where did you get it?

Cool vid. Watch from beginning to end. Keep them coming.

Great stuff much appreciated 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

really good video & animations love it !

so good, like it thanks

Super

Can you do a video on the different films (Portra, Cinestill etc.)?

Wow much rad. Roast!

Dope video.

Tempting as it is Austin I would not Blow on the Shutter like that. Any moisture which lands on it will Rust it and cause it to malfunction. Thanks for the Video 👍

Nice 😍👌

Very good video. Out of curiosity, do you do large prints from your photos for galleries or to hang up in your home? The cost for the film and lab work is way too high. The cost of using my vintage middle format Rolleiflex camera is enough to make me cry, and I only use it a couple of times a year. I have to admit that I don't miss film and happily transitioned to digital a long, long time ago. I do love the character and personalities of old glass.

you should calculate the exposure and cock the shut before you do the movements because the subject will likely move

which of these would you recommend to someone who has shot film but not large format: 4*5, 5*7, and 8*10?

Interesting that most LF photographers (including me) seem to use the white side as "unexposed". I think that it was meant for writing on it with a OHP pen, but I might be mistaken (and then it would make more sense to have the white side for "exposed" with some notes on it). What I don't like about Fomapan film is that it is very prone to mechanical damage of the coating (especially during development), and its sensitivity is rather low (the Fomapan 400 is more an ISO 200 film if you want to have shadow detail) - not to speak about the really massive reciprocity failure (I'm doing LF pinhole photography, and there it can be real pain in the behind ;-)). My preferred B&W film stock is actually ADOX CHS 100 II (I'm shooting 4x5, no 8x10 at the moment), as it is ortho-panchromatic and not expensive (somewhere between Foma and Ilford), and for 8x10 I would use Ilford HP5 Plus (not as cheap as Fomapan, but halfway affordable; I might go 8x10 at some point, and the HP5 Plus would be my main film stock for that).

Thanks. Where you buy this type of backdrop ?

Good vid... always cock and test the shutter before pulling the darkslide ;)

can I ask you what made you pick the newly made large format cameras and not some old Horseman or Toyo, on something else?

I was lost when you took 400 IsO film and metered for 800 while referring to metering for the shadows , (effectively underexposing) but then after development said it was underexposed ? did you mean to say you were using 400 speed film and metering at 200 ?

Hi! Do you ever take into consideration your bellows extension? (the "bellows extension factor" which we'd usually apply to increase exposure to compensate for light loss, as in this sort of case?) I believe the rule is: more exposure must be given if your subject is *closer than 8x the focal length of the lens* (in your case: 8 x 250mm = 2000mm (which is 2 meters, therefore about 6.5 feet). This would explain why - as you had mentioned in you video - your image was "a bit underexposed". I mean, because of some latitude, it looks pretty good as it is except for some detail lost in the shadow side of your girlfriend's hair. All-in-all, bravo, though!

It doesn't make any difference that paper is orthochromatic if you expose it with white light through negative.

dirty holder man lol

You shoot 10x8 negative then make a digital scan??!!! Also it’s well underexposed.