There are several RU-vidrs that post "long" videos that are just unwatchable sometimes.. And then there are others like Sean Tucker and Paul C Smith that are a joy to watch even if they were talking for an entire hour.. You fortunately belong in the 2nd group.. Your videos are always interesting to watch.. Love your work!!!! Just keep them coming 😁 🙌🏻
I have a request, would you make a video about your scanning and color correcting proces? I struggle with getting the right colors while scanning my negatives. Which makes for a very inconsistent workflow and results. Your shots look absolutely wonderful! Take care
Enjoyed it as always Tom.. but please stop describing film as temperamental or unpredictable. Velvia is unforgiving and requires near perfect exposure.. but it's not fickle. Metered properly and well developed, it'll give perfectly reliable results. If anything is unpredictable.. it's your metering, sorry bro. :D not suggesting it's easy to meter perfectly reliably.. we're all working at it. :)
Yo! Maybe split the difference and add in a bit of sky at the expense of the land to have the river running closer to the bottom of the frame. That said, I have no idea how you get such gorgeous square format shots. I usually hate square crops.
Film will always produce something with more depth as the emulsion has a physical thickness to it. This is the reason it is better, for the most part, to over-expose film images; the more the film is exposed, the thicker the negative in that area, thus creating something with actual depth. If you're searching for the reason film just looks different, this is the reason. There is certainly a time and a place for both film and digital. As you said though, it doesn't really matter what camera you shoot with as long as what you are doing is making you happy.
There's something so satisfying about actual film. Knowing you can't just take as many as necessary until you get it right , and that when you do get it right the pure joy. Wonderful picture
Loved the Velvia shot! I bought your book and I absolutely love it! It is fantastic! I love the stories that you tell that you don’t necessarily hear about in the video! Keep up the great work!
I do remember fondly using Fuji Velvia back in the 90's - the reds, blues and greens on my photos from USA & NZ were fantastic but exposure was hit and miss due to my lack of skill. As I'm just an enthusiast I'd not go back from digital but I can see it would have an attraction to a Pro though.
I have one 'modern' camera, an EOS-R, and couple of out of date DSLRs [nice ones] and a bunch of truly archaic film cameras - and a bunch of nice-old glass, much of which I inherited from my late father - but some was mine dating back to the 1980s. So, when I head out for the day I take one camera and two or three lenses. These days I buy the fastest [used] lenses I can afford, half of them are primes: 50mm, 85mm, 130mm. All of my very best fotos come from those prime lenses - they just can do more. *'Constrains force creativity,'* that is the law. Watching the dogwood trees bloom behind my local supermarket at night last spring under the parking lot lights, it was a real battle between my EF16-35mm F2.8 and the EF 85mm f1.2. One lens won in the end only because it could gather more light, I was taking 26-35 second exposures, I had never done anything like that before, but the results were magical, all of these luminous white blossoms with the 12ft tall, orange, Caterpillar tractor parked in the middle of the lot... Yes! I did not know that existed, but I got it!. At a certain point you just have to put yourself in the way of magic, and have the right set of tools in your camera bag to photograph it. You just have to be a little patient, if it is not there tonight it might be there tomorrow night - if not you are just SOL. SOL happens a lot too. That EF85mm f1.2? It weights about *three pounds,* I cary it as often as I can, why?, most of my very best photos have come from that one lens.
So enjoyable and such great images! Thanks for this video! I found myself behind the monitor saying "take the shot, do it, don't vlog, take the shot!!" 🤣
Yep, Velvia image = perfect. Avid Hasselblad fan and the tense moments, working for the shot brings so much more satisfaction when you hit it perfectly. I also am an avid Fujifilm user and love both systems. Thanks for sharing your work.
Landscape photographers always go through these once in awhile and sometimes the results are great 👍🏻. I appreciate your commitment to the channel and putting out content for us to be entertained.
If you're going to shoot color film you should add a couple 81A, 81B warming filters to your kit. Don't be afraid to take any shot. It pays homage to the film gods! Nice work as always!!
Honestly love your videos man! Been subscribed to you for about a year now and I’ve learnt so much. But you’ve also completely rekindled my desire to get out shooting
You've convinced me to try film again, 17 years after I went digital, I can't afford A Hass, looking at some of the original Canon slr cameras, mid 90s onward. Thanks again Tom for a great video.
I've got a Bronica ETRS for medium format and couldn't recommend it enough; great value in comparison to other 6 x 4.5 (£300 with a lens if you're lucky)
Unless you need the agility for street or action, I'd go MF. Mamiya and Bronica are both affordable and built like brick outhouses. My first roll of medium format film blew my mind when I got it back from the lab.
@@TarrelScot thanks for your comments Mark, I've considered Mamiya before, but I'm still attracted to Canon, as I have a Canon Dslr, I can use EF lenses on the Dslr too, cheers.
Ansel Adams “Moonrise over Hernandise” was also one of the beautiful light going bad fast. He had time for one exposure. You need practice with the Hassy to get better.
Being new to landscape photography I've no idea about using film, so I'm loving seeing you use the hasselblad in the field. Would be great to see you develop the images if that's what you do yourself. Fantastic image at the end. Really enjoying your content 👍
1. Reminds me of how much more discipline is needed with film cameras (I used to shoot on an Olympus OM1 - great camera - & develop & print my own B&W - happy days). 2. Received your book (at last - postal delays getting to Australia). Loving it - the whole thing is quality 👍👏
When you press the shutter release on the blad you need to hold it down until you have heard the shutter in the lens close. The way you are doing it on the video (just stabbing at it) you will eventually hit a situation where the baffles at the back of the camera start to close before the shutter in the lens has closed and so get black bands at the top and bottom of your shot. The baffles close when you lift your finger from the release so if you take your finger off in a shorter time than the exposure your shot is messed up. This will happen with exposures over 1/4 of second. (maybe the 501 is better at this than the 500). You can see this work by looking through the back of the camera whilst making an exposure. Also don't snap your backs on! Slide the button when you put them on as well or the catches will eventually break. Back in the day it was fine to snap them on but these days things are getting irreplaceable. I may be teaching my grandma to suck eggs here but it is frustrating watching you do it! Love the shows otherwise.
I like the XT-3 shot and the velvia shot for different reasons. They tell a slightly different story. I not shoot most of my landscape on 4x5 film, not because the camera is better or film is better, but because the limitations and slow work flow make me better. Looking forward to the next video. I like that you show us the ups and downs and what's going on in your head when you take the shot. We don't always believe in every shot we take, at the moment of taking it, but sometimes we just have to trust our gut and take the shot anyway.
somehow I feel like you would love a digital Fuji medium format, it is literally all the films you want without changing a single film! I eagerly await your 100 megapixel epic photos!
YES! You did get the shot, well done TH. I do love your enthusiasm and excitement of what you do. I'm enjoying watching Alister and Adam's VLOG episodes as well, great diversity but with a unified core love og the art of photography. I need some of that enthusiasm, Cheers.
Velvia is the best. I don't shoot film anymore as I recently sold my RZ67 for the lighter Z7, but when I had it I pretty much got to a point where I shot only Velvia 50 and Delta 100. Occasionally for long exposures id use Provia too which is great for cityscapes or startrails.
I don't think that crop sensor is a drawback in landscape photography. To get the same depth of field, we usually use faster aperture in crop sensor camera as compared to mediam format. So the final image is mostly equal.
Found this channel the other. Such fantastic content. I've been to Iceland before but missed out on all of this because of my lack of skill for hiking and photography. Absolutely can't wait to go back.
I blinked and missed you switch to film. Some amazing stuff, but you are right, very few people will look at a shot and think about what it was shot on, they will look at the image and story behind it.
The Velvia shot looked amazing, as did the other photographs. By the way, I ordered your hardcover book, and I am giving it an enthusiastic thumbs up. 😊
I loved all of your images this time, especially with good light kicking off. I have always been amazed by how knowledge of the film choices available will effect the viability of images. Great choices.
Great images. I prefer the Fuji image of the mountain, but that is because the light seems better. Using film looks just too hard for me. I have the book and it is gorgeous!
Your experience and feel is really inspirational for me to be patient and willing to build on my own experience and feel. And to prove this the last shot on velvia was stunning
I think I'm usually drawn to photos not taken on film, however in this instance, I REALLY love the shot you took on your Hasselblad. I think film was definitely the perfect medium for this composition
Hi Thomas. I love the video, and thanks for using the Hasselblad! As a fellow Hassy owner, I learned the hard way that when taking longer exposures, the cable release needs to be depressed until the shutter in the lens has run its course, unlike traditional 35mm camera lenses that will keep the shutter open to its predetermined interval regardless of how long the shutter button was depressed. I think it is just a quirk with this cameras. But the resulting images are so worth the idiosyncrasy. Looking forward to the next video!
Thanks Thomas. My vote is for the Velvia. The Fuji digital is nice, but I prefer the distribution of light and the way the foreground leads to the mountain in the Fuji Velvia. Either way, Fuji wins! :-)
Hearing your discussing side by side of MF and Digital side by side...looking forward to seeing results, but love the process getting there. Velvia 50 was always one of my favorites to shoot with. Now seeing it, yep, as expected, great saturation. Great job sir!
Ansel was able to do it because he wasn't always talking to that invisible 3rd person. It was just Ansel and the scene. Also while I do understand the differences in films but if I had brought it that far I'd use it and hope for the best. It also helps to have more than 2 film backs. That is why I have 3 backs for my RB67. One B/W, one Porta 400 and one Ektachrome 100. Oh and I the love the Velvia image.
I think Hasselblads new 907X 50c digital back might slot into the back of your film camera? Not sure but you could then potentially pick and choose, film or digital. The sensor is the same as the one in Adams GFX so not as big as film but still big. So many toplandscape photographers are incorporating Fuji gear with their photography these days. Brilliant.
I think most landscape shooters in the film days would shoot 3 or more frames and bracket since chrome film required such precision. I know I started out shooting 5 frames per scene and then down to four as I trusted my metering more and more. My guess is that Ansel shot more than one sheet of film when he could.
beyond all technical comparisons and some other techny stuff , i mesmerized with the beauty of the location and serene atmospheric condition..by the way i'll be digging into medium format issues.
Neat, I enjoy the broad comparison. Fun to have two such different types of cameras to use, especially for less-serious trip like this one with friends. I wonder if the first image would look better with some helpful cropping but they're all such lovely scenes. I'm looking forward to the next video!
I'm 6mins in and I have to stop to make a comment. You're making me wanna try not only film but medium format. The decisions, for not only what we all consider, how we should expose, how we should compose but deciding there on location what film would suit the given scene. This is what is missed from digital photography, I've only ever shot film with a disposable camera as a kid, so technically have never shot film and it is seriously peaking my interest.... Right back to the video to watch the rest hehe
You agree with me now, elite level film camera haha great video as always. Deep respect for film as it paved the way forward. I was around for the film era but tbh I dont have found memories of it like you do but I respect it :)
Well the shots are very different as the light was changing so rapidly. I think it’s hard to discern the differences in the cameras from that. I think the main difference is in handling and working with the systems. If the Fuji is the one you grab to capture the moment then I think you’ll get more amazing moments, especially if you have a lens already mounted to the camera and tripod ready. Just bought your book 😀
I think I preferred the Velvia shot at the end over the digital shot. Don't get me wrong, the digital shot is great too, but the focus of the light in the second shot is just stunning.
0:35]. There was a year when I was living in Las Vegas, that looked very much like this, when was that? It had rained *a lot* that Spring... 2008?? The hillsides and the valleys were green like this, almost all of the way to the crests. It was unusual, rare, and spectacular. At the time I did not have a camera working to photograph it. I *like* this photo.
Looks like there’s a 150mm f/4 and/or a 250mm Sonnar for that 500cm in your future gear bag. They are amazing and can be found used online for under $300. Great stuff, Thomas!!
You might have done well with Velvia in those muted conditions in Iceland, however in my experience the greens velvia produces are over the top garish, and the Portra films work great in larger sizes. I thought your last images were really wonderful, and have enjoyed your videos immensely. Keep it up! I hope to be able to swing one of your workshop at some point.
