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The magenta cast has likely come from cocksfoot grass, which is the grass that you show at the start. This grass has a purple hue to the flowers that isn’t that obvious to the naked eye. Look at the grass at the start of the film! It’s in a shady spot and hadn’t opened yet but you can still see the purple if you look at the tips.

Generally, a purple-magenta cast would be from contaminated developer, but appearing only on frames from that one scene would rule that out. The other possibility is fog (raw light hitting the film), but you would see plus density in the clear spaces between frames, unless if it happened while the film was in the film back (a.k.a. magazine), such as when pulling the dark slide while the back was off camera. Commenter here, Simon Booth, wrote that it could be the purple hue of the "cocksfoot grass." That makes a lot of sense, given that our eyes continuously compensate for "normal" and you might have missed it. If you want color accuracy, put a gray card in the scene. If you print for the gray card (to make it look gray), then any "off-color" would be in the subject or light source. (You'll waste a shot, and a print, but it's worth it... and don't forget to retrieve the card after your test shot.) Speaking of gray cards, they also work exceptionally well with spot meters for exposure. If you don't have a gray card with you, or don't want to use it, you could try spot metering the underside of clouds. In this video, you were not locking-up the mirror before releasing the shutter. That big chunk of glass flopping around does make a difference that you can easily see in enlargements, especially at shutter speeds slower than 125. A lens shade also makes a discernible difference, if you're going for "sharpness." You can always diffuse it later if you want a softer look (although not with a neg in an enlarger, because the shadows will move into the highlights in the print, instead of vice verse). A Swedish photographer whose work I've admired for years, Dan Lindberg ( danlindberg.com ), has a similar "eye" as yours, and I think you'd enjoy his work. I first saw his photography on a forum called GetDPI.com.

Am I alone in loving the really zoomed in woodland image? The intricate detail of the vines around the tree is lost in the zoomed out photo.

Love the pic of St Mary's from the north side, even though the purple field looks like lavender it looks good. I got your book this week, enjoying it very much!

I'm very glad you brought back film. We always have to remind ourselves to go back to basics. I have both 35mm and 120mm. I still shoot with them regardless of my SLR. I love the honesty and simplicity of your videos.

I would have been pleased with those photos. Great video yet again. By the way, loved the Thom Yorke impression on the f4 deleted scene.

I love the “rule of centers” in the light house photograph! Remember, if you’re not making mistakes you’re not stretching yourself and you’re not learning.

I really appretiate your honest/down to earth view about photography. Thanks for uploading, sometimes we forget to screw up in order to improve certain skill.

Your comments on lighthouse interesting. We are so used to that clinical perfection we try to seek with digital photography that we forget about the photography. I wondered how lighthouse would look in mono. A greatt video thanks Thomas, good food for thought.

The quality of the video footage has improved immensely. I normally watch the videos on a 65" 4k TV and I really enjoy the new 'look'. Thanks!

Great Vlog, I'm sorry to hear about your poor health. The images great, these are the limits of film, cheers Tony

Hi Thomas First - best wishes for feeling better soon. This is a very helpful video; relevant and useful to anyone exploring film. Thank you for putting it together this way. In time I look forward to hearing what film you feel would have given you the look you were seeking.

Loved the Hasselblad I had years ago. But, it never left the studio. I also loved developing the B&W film and making prints in my darkroom. Stay well.

We learn more from failures than we ever do from successes. So even though it might feel shitty at times to have something fail, you always gotta realize that it is actually useful and helps us improve. I really enjoyed the lighthouse image though, it's a kind of photography style you don't see so often. Breath of fresh air.

Keeping it real as always Mr. Heaton. I love that about you. I hope you feel better soon. Take care and stay safe

Tom I hope you feel better soon! I love how honest you are in this video! I am new to photography and I am making a ton of mistakes. I am not going to lie, but it is hard not to get discouraged. In my head I see this beautiful image, but after it I look at it, it looks terrible. Thanks for being you!

That’s the beauty of film it can be grainy gritty very real and timeless. I used to shoot sport for a local paper way back in the 80s / 90s they gave me one roll of 24 exp ilford HP5 and in the depth of a northern winter I was given Tmax 3200 man I hated the grain back then but looking back they were real photos. Great vid mate glad ur not cov positive ✊🏻

Great honest video of learnings from trial and error. We all need those encouragements in any part of life. Hope you’re felling better now too.

Love your honesty. Re: the purple hue, is it possible that the developer over-processed it a bit? That would be my first thought.

Thanks for this video I’m so sick of lockdown etc. This video really helped and thank you so so much for this

The lighthouse image is good, Thomas. The minimal red color and smooth water is nice, and as you say, the grain works.

I love the lighthouse shot, the minimal composition and starkness of the sky and sea. I have been watching quite a lot of James Popsys videos recently and in one he says if the photo is bad because it isn't technically perfect, then is it a good photo? Which I think is a very good point!

Thank you, dear Thomas, once again for an inspiring video of yours! Wishing you both health and safety! Best Regards from Sweden

One of the joys of shooting film the the wide array of film stocks you can use, each one with it's one "preset look". I love all 3 images you showed here and thanks for sharing them.

Enjoyable vid, Thomas - thanks! It's been a long time since I dabbled with film (80s!), but always liked the grainy quality of fast film.

As always love your videos! You have inspired me so much that I've dragged my old medium format film camera out of the closet. Also, I received your book today over here in the USA and love it. I flipped through it already and can't wait to take my time and enjoy every word. Thank you so much for being an inspiration to me and my own photography!

This has done it’s job... you are out and shooting not thinking of why not!!! And moreover you have made me go out and get my 500cm shooting again!!! Thanks Tom

I honestly love the lighthouse image, so unique!

Like that you are enjoying working with film. I may still be many many years away from ever having the desire to use it again.

My advice: carry multiple magazines with different film stocks! Use the stock that is most suitable to the situation.

Got my book here in Michigan, USA yesterday. It's great! I make plenty of mistakes to learn from. Somehow my mistakes aren't as beautiful as your "mistakes", but I'll keep shooting. Hope you feel better.

Hi Thomas, what you have experienced with the film is exactly why I love digital. Processing mistakes, different film batches,push processing,no flexibility over iso. Film was never as forgiving as digital and also the ability to react immediately makes it so superior. I have been shooting for 50+ years give me digital thank you. I might play with black & white film but that's it. Thanks for your show,

Enjoying your adventures in film immensely. I liked the images, the composition of them especially. If there really was a strong magenta cast in one image but not others, I would probably question the scanning. How the scanning is done can make a big, big difference. A lot of labs have their scanners pretty much set to auto, sometimes the results aren't great. Btw. Quick and easy way to tell if you have significantly under or overpexposed is to look at the negs. A dark dense neg .... overexposed, a pale wishy washy neg ... underexposed. Keep up the good work.

I love the honesty in this video.

Thank You! I got a new camera and like you still learning it. I received your book two days ago, I find the book of the utmost quality. Good Job!

Fisherman's Friend is my favorite kind of lozenges. Really clears up the sinuses! On another note, love seeing you shoot with film. Mistakes are a part of the learning process and it still makes for good content!

Glad to hear your test was negative and hope you are on the mend Thomas. Always believe there is more to learn when dealing with unsuccessful events than those that are deemed a success. Loved the final image and wonder how it would look if its converted to B&W

Thomas, feel better soon. Your book (brilliant) arrived yesterday, June 30, east of Sacramento, CA. Looking forward to a good read.

Love the clockwork noises it makes and that clicky aperture ring on the lens. Not sure I could live with the variability of the results, but very interesting, or at least you have made it so.

Yaay, really looking forward to your book! :D

the phots are stunning! who cares about the noise? it's the feel the composition delivers and it does DELIVER!!!

I haven't exposed film in many years but I used to love Kodak films for sunrises/sunsets and people shots. Fuji films for woodlands and seascapes.

Love the lighthouse image, might even be better in black and white.

Hope you start feeling better. Waiting on your book to be delivered....just came in. Thanks

This seems to come back to one lesson I learned early on: don't aim for every shutter press to be a keeper. While the cost of error is certainly much greater with film, it's no less valuable in the long run.

"Not everything has to look pretty to be a nice image"! Great point!!

Love your channel and you diving into film is just fine

Thomas, thanks once again for sharing. As someone who continues to make his share of mistakes, it really helps when you share your struggles :-)

Tom, loved the old Beach Tree to your right from the first sequence. Another braw video. 👍

You mention your book.... I am so excited, it was delivered today to my home in Colorado. Looking forward to going through it page by page. I really enjoy your work and presentation in your videos. Thank You!

I did notice a difference in your office video, that made sense when you said 4k. Good stuff. Can't wait for my book! Thanks Tom!

very personal video, was good fun to watch. So good to see that even the masters make mistakes. Also nice to be informed almost live about shipments of your books to Germany.

Your B roll is always fantastic. Not easy running up and down, then act and breath natural. Well done.

Hasselblad Hint: Find the EV number from your spot meter that you want to use for the exposure. Then on the right side of the lens there is an orange triangle. Rotate to align the triangle under the EV number. Now you have set the Aperture/Shutter Speed combination. Push the black button down and rotate the A/SS together to the desire setting. Click.

I shot Hasselblad using film professionally for over 20 years and have a few suggestions. 1.This sounds like a possible lab issue, the grain and the poor color quality. 2. Kodak Porta 400 has extremely low film grain as do almost all of the color films, even at 800 ISO. My last suggestion and it's very basic, are you using a UV filter? Film is a bit susceptible to color shift from UV light, making images go slightly blue/violet. You’re a good photographer and I know you’ll get this straightened out.

Love your channel so much better since you started shooting film! Doing mistakes is the vedt way to learn... that’s it that’s all! ✌️

I like your Lighthouse Thomas. It looks quite Indie rather than Mainstream and it's absolutely fine for film photography.

Love your videos, Thomas. Thank you very much! And cheers from Chile =)

I love your filming/framing for the hiking scenes!

Your current set of vids are some of the best you’ve done Mr Heaton.

I love these Hasselblad sessions!!

Love the lighthouse photo! And for all the reasons you listed.

Love your honesty. And yes mistake us learn. BTW, I love the dirty, grimy lighthouse.

I really like the lighthouse image. It's true, it's honest. Like you've said: the inappropriate film, the gray day, the 'ugly' side make it work, paired with the square format and the center placement of the subject.

Thomas you made my day...@17:54 ohh wat a great news for me:-)...and please more Hasselblad reviews like this. to see how you work with the "Hassi" and what great results you get, I love it! Mike from Germany

My book arrived today here in the northeast U.S. Gave it a quick look, looks awesome. I’ll spend more time with it this Independence Day weekend.

Lighthouse image has a timeless beauty IMHO

I really love the forest image, WITH the grain, it is perfect to me. Nice work here !

Great video, reminded me of some of the challenges back in my film days. Received my copy of your book and it's met my expectations and then some. Nice job and a great addition to my library.

Really loving your film content. I've recently started shooting film again (35mm) and have virtually no idea what I'm doing. Encouraged by my results none the less. Personally I love the images you've shared made with your Hasselblad. Amazing to see your learning process/progress. I understand its important to critique your own work but don't be too hard on yourself. The images look amazing so far! I hope you get well soon and stay Covid free!

I think the lighthouse image is great, it has a very specific mood about it that you don’t always see these days. Part of that is probably down to the technical elements as you mention, but I think the subject in that particular composition and light works really well.

Having used a Mamiya twin lens many years ago and experienced some of the same issues, digital came as a revelation. The one thing landscape photographers always struggle with is weather but in the film days it was more than just that - the right film to shoot the conditions. Digital seems to give back control over everything (apart from the weather).

your book was just delivered - can't wait to open it - but I'm still working from home so I have to wait for a quiet moment!

Good to see even you pros needs to learn. Gives me hope on the beginning of my photo learning journey that learning is what it’s all about. Cheers Ps based in Norfolk England checking the post regularly for that pre ordered book.

I LOVE that last image, even before you started talking about it! Looking forward to getting your book in my hands. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

Glad you’re over your illness and that it wasn’t COVID-19. I just got your book delivered to me here in California - and on my birthday no less. Really enjoying the photos and the stories. And, suitably inspired by this video, tomorrow I think I’ll go out and make some photography mistakes!

My book is supposed to be delivered tomorrow! I'm so excited!! BTW, the 4K looks great!

TH, these are some of my favourite photos of yours. I look forward to seeing more of this sub standard work ;-)

All part of the process, great video Tom

I absolutely love the last photo of the lighthouse!! I would definitely buy that as a print!

~ Can't Wait for the Book ~ !!

Tom - another great video - thanks. You are touching on an interesting topic - once you've loaded a roll you are "stuck" with it. Years ago my work around was to use a system - the Mamiya 645 and have 2-3 other film backs either loaded with other film or ready to be loaded to suit changing conditions - it was ht best solution I could come up with.

Never got into a video so early. Those pictures look pretty cool. Eerie almost

So looking forward to your book, especially now that you talked about shipments to Germany. Preordered rightaway so hopefully mine was in that batch 🥳

I received my beautiful book yesterday! Stunning!!! Thank you!

I like purple. It’s my favorite color. It made for a different and unusual photograph in that field.

Books are coming! YAAAY!!!

You have renewed my desire to acquire a Blad. I have always wanted to hold a medium format film image. Owning a couple of OM1s and I love shooting colour positive film. Love your work hope you get better soon. And look forward to your book too.

I enjoy your contents. I’m getting a hasselblad soon. Can’t wait

Man, I enjoyed this video. Thank you!

I liked it man! Growth is uncomfortable. Happy to see the journey.

Watching this makes me want to grab my Hasselblad 500c and head out. I'm wanting to get better at landscape photography and I really find your videos inspiring.

Hey Thomas. Love the first image. Love the dreamy ethereal quality and I like the purple grass.. it almost reminds me of some false color infrared photos. It's the whole "reality is overrated" thing. It's interesting because it's not quite natural looking.

I would highly recommend trying Fuji Acros 100 B&W film for drab days like those, It is also one of the best films around for long exposures as it has decent reciprocity failure rates ! good luck, always take notes too!

Thomas - do toot your horn!!! You’re an inspiration to almost half a million people! I know the lighthouse as I have family in backworth and always try to make a trip myself. Yeah its grimy and the camera seems to enhance the grime. As for film - will be interesting to see how you persevere. I can’t imagine going back to it. When time is limited and money tight it seems a bit high risk. I think the grain works well, and better than digital, on nostalgic scenes (including sepia and black and white), but that’s about it for me. Wish you success with the book!

Sounds like you are learning the fun of picking the best film for your current lighting situation. The learning curve can be steep (especially when you are looking for a film that provides results you like) but with time and 'wasted' film you will find your analog mojo. Thanks for sharing you experiences and failures. I don't think enough photographers show off their disappointments to help others learn. Good luck with the covid test.

Got the Book Thomas! Love it!!

14:15, Man that looks like a painting. Amazing !! The lighthouse image looks like something shot during WW2, it gives a vibe of someone photographing the surroundings as a memory.

I just got my copy of your book. I'm looking forward to skipping work for the next hour to flip through it. Get well soon.

That's the colour of the grass seeds!! Different grasses, different colours, nothing wrong with the colour Tom.