Los Angeles on 4x5 Film 

It is great seeing a new generation taking up Film Photography, especially 4x5. It makes you slow down and think about the photograph instead of clicking away with your iPhone or digital camera. I have the Toyo also and I love finding vintage lenses and using them, I am learning to embrace softness and shalow depth of field. It is also fun to play with lens tilt and shift to create the impact point of the image. You are doing a fantastic job and everyone can learn from you! Too bad I can only give you one thumbs up!!

the long exposure one on 11:11 is master piece, great video

The last 4 photos are chef's kiss. But I really like the bridge / gas station photo, really sums up the entire project. You need to cross a river? Need gass ?...cars !

As a Corona native who started watching Willem in NYC, I never thought he would photograph the freeway construction we all complain about-but let me tell you, he made the area just five minutes from my house look so damn beautiful.

I'm a design engineer at Link-Belt Cranes and I loved the shot at 8:36! I'm always wanting to get action shots of our stuff and you nailed it.

4x5 is just something else.11:30 is stunning, the roadway dividing the darker sky and the lighted section. Another gem by Willem!

1:49 Love the Mr Sheep in the shelf behind :D

The “better light” construction shot and the first long exposure…🔥👌 nice work

All of those photo's were absurdly BEAUTIFUL! Fantastic work Willem!

3:03 Willem pulling up like he's taking the kids to soccer practice

I don't think I could pick a favourite. Absolutely love the way you compose these shots with foreground elements and love how the slow shutter almost gives them a dreamlike quality.

Solid work Willem! After leaving photography for a few years, this video has given me some renewed vision to continue what I once loved. Keep the inspiration coming!

Awesome photo's, I would love to see some 4x5 portraits

10:05 Love that there's another guy literally in the exact same spot who also went to take a photo

I have a Toyo 45G and absolutely love it. I bought it a year or so ago off marketplace and it was new in the box. I enjoy using it. I bought a excellent condition Nikon 180F5.6 lens for it. Amazingly there is a company that makes a backpack that can carry the whole setup - the F.64 "large." Also, I would mark your dark slides to the point where they clear the film and not completely remove them, just makes things easier.

the penultimate shot, with the curved freeway at night is amazing. def my fav

Man, I like all of them! I too, use a 4x5 field camera, but live in a small town. While our subject matter may be different, I can really appreciate the work you have done here! Kudos Willem...

Really lovely work. The 4x5 really does. “Sing”. Love the night shot.

11:09 is magical.

The second to last one was my favorite. The one with the palm trees. I really enjoyed that one. Thanks!

Coming back 6 days later to watch this video again! So good, keep up the great work!

my fav is definitely the second shot of the freeway under construction, absolutely love it and kinda so telling for human constructionism and our car-centred approach to our environment.

Definitely wanna see more 4x5 content, these shots were great!

2 last photos are wild.

Keep the 4x5 coming. I love these cameras. They're the best

I work at a camera shop right above the freeway in Corona, where you took the freeway construction, and the mountains in the morning are so beautiful, and most of the time have a thick layer of fog in between, wish I could've said hi!! Love the shot too!!

Those images from that massive negative are just beautiful! 💪👏

4x5 goes crazy, love the gas station photo with the freeway in the back! all of them in general came out so nice(:

Love this 4x5 series. Well worth going back to take the construction shot again in better light - it's a stunning image.

My first attempts at photographing such structures were with a Hasselblad film camera in the 1980s. I had no shift lens of any sort, nor even a wide angle lens, so I would back off, visualising the final frame to be cropped out of the default 6x6 square. It was good practice. I still do this sometimes, because I have two wide angle lenses, but now I have a Linhof Technika, which is another world. There is also a Linhof monorail that stays mostly in the studio. The Technika is the go-to camera because it packs up in seconds and takes up very little space in the backpack. You are going to enjoy your work, more and more as you become familiar with every control on that camera. A violinist never has to look where the fingers go to play a note or a chord. It's all about 'muscle memory'. Thanks for sharing this moment in your journey. 👌 ... 🤝

it was cool seeing you out on the dirt roads in the mountains over the weekend. thank you for waving back :)

Your 4x5 work is dope! 😮‍💨

It's great to see you pursue this type of photography. Keep up the great work! 2 suggestions: 1. Get some zip lock type bags and put your film holder in it immediately after you load it. That got rid of most of my dust spots. 2. Shade the film holder, a Dark cloth helps and the view of the ground glass is much better when using a dark cloth.

Great photos! I especially liked the revisited construction site and the twilight shot of the overpasses with the plane going by in the background. I noticed that you used rise and fall to address the elevation issues. It would be interesting if you talked a little about the adjustments you had to make to get the capture you were after, given the geography you were working in. This was inspirational.

11:13 photo is a favorite. Just picked up a toyo 45aii and can't wait to shoot with it! More 4x5 for sure, always stoked to see what you're working on!

The first night photo and the return to the construction site are my favourites. Definitely more large format please!

Incredible mate, I'm so glad I found your channel

I shot one of these for years. One of the best 4x5's ever made.

last two are gold.🖤👌🏼

Love the bridge construction shot at golden hour....

I love the night photos. They are amazing.

Please make your next book available in Europe !! All of your work is so inspiring, following your channel from Belgium for a few years now and it gets better and better each time you post a video

The Royal Industrial one at the end was really cool

Very cool photos of the viaduct under construction, especially the one during golden hour. I find myself taking lots of pictures of construction sites, they make good time capsules of when a cityscape looked different when I revisit those photos in the future.

So good man love the photos and the project.

Yes, more please, love the one near the end, of the star trails with car headlights!, proves to everyone, you don't always have to use 35mm Dslr's to do it!!

The two long exposure shots are, in my opinion, the best out of a set of great images. I’m considering trying 4x5 myself, so more of these videos would be very welcome.

Love watching your videos they put me at peace, thanks for sharing

Beautiful shots and very enjoyable to watch

Beautiful work!

Love the long exposure at night. I've got a Toyo-Field 45A with a 135mm lens. It definitely forces you to slow down and focus on composition rather than just taking 100 shots and picking the best.

Gorgeous photos! Well done!

Amazing work. Really inspiring work and a superb project. It has to be made into a book and put me down for a copy please. Brilliant. 🔥

A really nice series of compositions! Well done!

The first night shot is amazing! Please more 4X5.

We need more 4x5! Loved the latter shots, especially the one at the gas station

the two last photos are crazy good, thanks for another video king

Brings back wonderful memories, but I’m glad there’s digital medium format cameras for all the most obvious reasons. It would have been nice to show metering the scene. You give the impression you just frame the composition, load the film and fire. Don’t take this the wrong way. I love your work so keep posting. Happy trails.

Loved this! Would love to see you meter while taking the shot, especially night shots.

I came across this video as a long time lover of shooting 4x5. I grew up in LA and live out of state now. Planning a trip in early August to shoot a bunch of film in the area, would love to meet up and shoot some sheet film together!

Last two pics are awesome! Would love to see your imperfect photographs as well 😊

I finally got my first high quality medium format SLR and now Willem's gonna start posting about large format photography. The chase never ends 😒

This is a great example of how the type of photos you take change with the format you use. The photos are so different from the coastal California project on 6x7. But nonetheless amazing.

Definetly saw you warming up, the last 6 pictures were dope. 9:19 was my favourite

This was excellent. The best shot was the high overpass at the end at night!

The first night shot of the interchange at 11:08 is stunning.

Willem! Another awesome video. You’ve inspired me to get to work on making my first photo zine and work up to producing a photobook, all shot on my Mamiya RB67. Curious of your filming set up for this vid - do you just pop your phone on a tripod?

Nice video and the shots. Sometimes I think about buying a film camera but then thinking more about scanning/developing I come back to real life and keep using my GXF100s.

Love the 4 x 5 format videos.

Willem: Me: just take my money

keep it up with the 4x5. Really dig it and it is pushing me to get mine out there more.

God the resolution is just hard to fathom. What an amazing camera.

Incredible work as usual Willem! Loved every photos. Would it be possible to see them on your website by any chance? Would love to check them more in details.

cool! I love my speed graphic. I like the shot with the windy weeds at 8:55

man oh man this makes me wanna work with 4x5 more… I had a week long workshop last October where we had to take 5 pictures on 4x5 b/w film with a hefty Sinar camera and such a heavy tripod… with that we had to develop them and scan them (didn’t have enough time to print them in the darkroom). we didn’t have enough time to learn tilt shift but maybe I can learn soon! (I also need the budget to shoot 4x5 lmao)

Really cool video. Love this format outcome 👌🏽

Willem I love your channel and i subscribed. I’m new to film photography for a while, just purchased a Olympus OM-1n with a 50mm 1.8 Zuiko lens. I love it. But I have simple question haha. I already noticed couple of dust inside the lens and even though it doesnt affect any of my images but still I’m kinda worried haha. I wonder if this will eventually does affect the images when there’s more dust inside? Anyway keep up the good work!📸🎞️

Now we want the exhibition with 4x5 meters prints, and the night ones blacklighted like a Jeff Wall masterpiece 😊

Look foward to additional vids like this. Great to see your work. Volvo content brought me to your channel, though i am a VW guy. Keep going and try something uncomfortable.

My buddy Eric told me he walked up a construction ramp and exposed a sheet of 4x5 film the other day before leaving it there!

I can't pick out any shot in particular but they are all very interesting Coming from Ireland, they are all very alien scenes to me However it's great to have a project, it keeps your photography focused and you can learn quite a lot Best of luck with it 📷👍

Yes!!!! Please create more 4x5 Photo videos! Also, where do you get your 4x4 photos developed and scanned in LA?

Oh dang you came out to the IE that’s sick! These shots are killer🤙🏽

The photo where you went back to retake the construction zone in nice light!

Great video and photos! How are you sourcing your locations? Since it’s mostly “ordinary stuff”, I wonder how you are doing that/what your process is.

Willem Verbeeck + 4x5 = cracking it wide open. Can't wait to see more. Your subject matter combined with this format and your unique perspective documents LA in a way I've never seen, but have always wanted to. When you finish this project and produce an output, like a book or whatever, I'll be the first to order. Love to see you work with 4x5 for more future projects...

Great stuff here. Willem can you talk about how you metered the last two shots and did you have to account for film reciprocity or anything? Great results.

Yes definitely more 4x5 The long exposure was amazing.

Definetly that one on 11:08, where a tiny red path of an anti-collision light crosses the long exposure slightly above the center of the photo! What plane was that?

Love me some guerrilla photography, potentially (minor) illegal, and working on your project that is so LA! Please, more of the same! I have a Toyo 45CF, a very nice field camera. This inspires me to dust it off and load up some film and head out. Thank you! 👍🏼

yet another banger from Willem

BF Goodrich on the Land Cruiser is such a flex

great video, that last shot was killer!

Fantastic.

YES! More 4 x 5 please!

That lexus is so fire. I want the 2024 model.

The second to last shot of the overpass was awesome! Did you calculate reciprocity failure? If so how?

great films always Wil!

GREAT WORK!

The night shots 🎉