I laughed everytime you said "Cupertino programmer". I couldn't agree more about having to make choices. And your Finnish accent warms my heart (mother is from Alavus). So happy RU-vid saw fit to have its Mountain View programmer recommend this video to me - look forward to more.
Maybe -- or maybe they saw an opportunity selling stuff for a tourist :-). But you are right -- $30 for a hamburger was more common ..... and you can also find it less ...
The phone makes amazing images! Yes! BW is special, it's yours! I use Samsung and Snapseed. The phone cam can, become your images! Did trip to South Africa! My Lady made me 2 albums of her phone images! I love them! I'm still sorting my camera pix.. LOL. You did Great BW ! Bravo!
What an amazing video! I love your B&W Images---they have so much character and depth! One of my favorite film cameras is the Mamiya C-330, somewhat similar to your Rolleiflex. Your musical accompaniment with the Videos is like icing on the cake. What a talented person you are. Do you also paint?
Glad you had a good vacation. This video makes so much sense. It is how we want to make photographs that matter, to make a record or try to put our own feeling in the photo. Neither is correct but there is a reason we like to shoot film!
Glad you are back. I use my phone for memory until I get the film back from the lab, also to have a color version of B/W shots for social media. Oh yes, and I was wondering whether there are IKEA shops in Norway (because of the kottbullar price tag compared to burger). I like the last few shots with your wife (I guess), nice composition.
I also like the feeling that I put my choices into my pictures. and when observing your Cupertino and your film pictures, the first ones give me the vibe of coming from a magazine, the vibe of being a bit generic and less personal, being a recollection a bit smoothed out for representation. the film pictures u showed, give me more of the vibe, of a story, told of an adventure, carrying the mood of the day, representing not a cleaned-up version of a story. However, the fresh recollection with the little side stories, angles and inconveniences still included.
also the difference that I processed the film pictures carefully and honed them by hand during printing to represent my idea. that's a bit of like reliving and elongating the moment captured, which for me doesn't happen when working on an electronic image
Well I may be a contrarian, but I thought that your photos had much more life and soul to them than the iPhone photos. The iPhone photos struck me as all looking like postcards or samples from a 1960's "How to take pictures" book. Your excellent film photos obviously had thought and sweat behind them and it shows.
I do occasionally. I even made a video about it some time ago. Mostly red or yellow. But mostly , I do my skies in post. In the dark room using different contrast for the sky and dodging it. And if digitally, then emulating that. I’m really not a fan of graduated filters as I’m mostly shooting with a dual lens TLR cameras. They are not really useful with those. :-)
I’ll look for the video. I have a 3.5F and some bay ii filters and find then quite convenient. I also have the Rolleinars which I think are fantastic. Cheers.
@@rmartinseddon i use my rolleinars all the time. Here is the video btw: The latter part of this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gY1khGEEoFI.html
You picked the best part of Norway for your holiday too! 👍 About that last picture, did you go all the way up the stairs? 😊 I think we visited the same spot just a few days apart.
Yeah, we drove to Mo I Rana, had a nice hike in the neighborhood, and then drove down the coast hopping from one island to another. We finally had a family get-together about 2 hours south from Trondheim. --- and yes, we went all the way up :-)
Yes, Norway is beautiful, but 64 dollars is equivalent to 10 Ilford FP4 films (my favourite - I usually develop it in ID-68 or 510 Pyro). Or $64 is 50% of what I paid for my Rolleicord Va a few years ago. :) Or, 64 dollars would buy me 20 Big Mac sets in a McDonald in Poland.... Fortunately, I don't eat this type of fast/junk food. ;)
Hey Ari. Thank you for sharing again. Your keyboarding was lovely. (I think that was you wasnt it? Your arrangements were reminiscent of your Magnus performance I believe). I agree with your “process” description but also imagine that the digital folks would argue that their personality is simply the result of their Photoshop or Lightroom technique. Is it not possible to personalize in the digital realm? (Just to be clear of my intentions here i retired my digital junk a while back. Now only shooting my 503CW and Nikon F5.) genuinely curious about your perspective on personalizing digital media
Thanks thanks. Yes, it's me playing, all right. About digital -- yes, if you shoot raw and then you go to your photoshop you have all the control over the outcome. But, there is a huge difference: I wonder if you ever played one of these car racing games with a computer? In those games, you can digitally modify your car. You can buy new breaks, adjust your carburetor, change aerodynamic charasteristics -- and then, with a real steering wheel and pedals drive an exciting race. Heck, they even organized well-played tournaments for the world's top drivers. All the freedom and excitement are there. That's digital. Then, have you ever driven in a budget race with a real beaten-up Volkswagen Beatle that you tuned up yourself, hauled to the crappy race track, and drove it there like there is no tomorrow? That's analog. So there is a difference like a day and night :-)
Great video, lovely pictures. one question, though: doesn't your wife get mad at you when you're taking selfies with a hot model hanging onto your arm? 😇
you add more than you think with the phone. you pick the subject and frame it . sounds trivial but it isn't . i said that so you would not be sore when i say that i liked both sets of images . the two best were black and white right before the cows
Thanks for sharing. 2 weeks ago I also returned from a vacation, I took a Mamiya 645 and a medium format film with me (it was color, not b/w). I like the process of shooting, but I finally had the same thoughts as you, but about film - others do the processing, and not me (I can do it for b/w, but not C41). I need to bring film to the lab, need to pay for the scanning, and even after that I have to do color correction in Photoshop. While shooting medium format, I have to pay a lot for film + development + scanning, and the result is still not perfect, and photos often need editing. Going digital will give me much better control, and last but not least, if you don't like auto modes, no problem to use manual focus lens and shoot in RAW ;)
