Happy belated birthday Todd! Your videos are absolutely wonderful; I want you to know how much I enjoy them and appreciate your willingness to share your passion and knowledge with everyone in the photo community. I am inspired and more confident to try various aspects of photo work because of you. Thank you!
Belated happy birthday! I was a bit worried about the emotional direction at the beginning but clearly all is well :-) Very nice still life tutorial. Thank you!
Happy Birthday Todd! Thank you for all the great videos. Your video on the Chamonix 4x5 inspired me to get one and I am super happy with it. Have been using the Intrepid and was tired of the fiddly nature of it. Thanks to you and the Chamonix I have fallen back in love with 4x5. Thank you.
I have been recuperating from shoulder surgery that I had last January and doing any camera or darkroom work was difficult. The last few weeks I have been strong enough to do some photography but the weather has been wet, cold, rainy and windy so I was feeling like your bouquet looked. The day your video came out was the first nice day in a while so I shot four sheets of 4x5 Mummy 400 using a half frame darkslide and bracketed like crazy. I haven't developed the film yet. I also did about the same with a roll of Kodak Gold in a Horseman roll film back, I'm curious to see my results. It felt really good to to have a little project again, it helped adjust attitude a lot!
Happy birtday Karol! Usefull tips on your video . Why don’t you make a Video on how using macro lenses on LF? Not only how to focus with them but also how to use dof, movement, which part of the subject to have focus in and which part out. Is it better using 4x5 or 5x7 or 10x8? Which focal lens do you suggest ( you have 105 , i have 120 and 180 but i feel easier 180)? Thank you
Enjoyed your work process. I've never used an incident meter, so obviously not a pro. I use Pentax reflective spot meters. I'm curious to know the advantages of when and when not to meter with incident as opposed to spot reflective meters. And, Happy Birthday!
Well when you have a constant even light source like the window it's easy to use a reflective meter. Here using a spot meter would be a bit more difficult only because there were so many different colour surfaces to choose from. A reflective meter just made it easier.
Happy birthday, really enjoyed the macro shots with the Pentax lens, colors were vibrant and popping, at time mute and pastely. What meter setting did you settle on.? Again Happy Birthday 🎉🎊🎈
happy birthday!! i need to shoot more still life. just curious: do you rate triX at 400 usually. i tend to use iso 320 mostly. best wishes from germany.
A ignorant question, but with your metering just now on this video, you can set your exposure on the 4x5 just simply by setting it to what your metered? Just as you would do with a 35mm or med format film camera? Just curious.
Indeed. All the close up work was shot with the digital camera and I made the appropriate compensation. I didn’t go that close with the 4x5, so that why I didn’t get into that. I did creat another video on close up with the large format where I explain that principal.
