I love how you encouraged your assistant to take a couple photos! As a photographer and art director with several years under my belt, I know the feeling of being on both sides of that interaction. It's super meaningful to be on the receiving end of that type of creative encouragement.
Man…you’ve always made beautiful images that make a statement. What I love has been seeing you now using RU-vid and telling stories versus documenting, which so many do. So clean all the way through, you’ve got a video style now too
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. A quick tip I already saw you do, but a tip to everyone; when dialling down a strobe always fire it off, so it resets to the new value you gave it. Otherwise it will overexpose your image with the last setting. Keep up the good work
Yo, I remember when you where thinking about shooting with strobes. You asked the community their thoughts and look at you shooting Broncolor strobes! High end strobes for high end work! Keep pushing dude! A you are making this community associate/friend very proud of you!
Love your art and videos! It's nice to see you offering some mentorship and opportunity to other artists as well! Spreading the knowledge and positivity around is what we need!
Literally kept saying “COLD!” after every shot. Your work is so clean & pristine. You be taking your lil hiatuses here & there but when you come back it’s definitely worth the wait. Like, how do you even get better than this??? Can’t wait to see what the future holds for you. Thank you for creating as always. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
one tip, here the Hasselblad 500 series has NO electronics, so the cord is to the lens (aka the shoe is a 'cold shoe')- these lenses have leaf shutters in them so all sync cords go to the lens, and also the radio triggers. one thing you may get a 'metered' prism, but in the V series, you use this differently, unlike dlsrs, or other cameras (even the H system Hasselblad prisms), the metering gives EV's, you lock both apature and shutter rings on the lens together (C lenses couple by default, you uncouple and set ev value; CF/CFi/CFE lenses you press a button on the apature ring, to temporarily lock these together) this is like S/A mode on dslr's or mirrorless, you then chose the apature desired, or for hand holding a fast enough shutter to prevent motion blur, then 'off to the races'.
Mike! I love your walkthroughs (and the subtle faces you make at the camera 😂). You’re also a very great mentor from your interaction with your assistant and taking the time to expose her to a new practice. I do wish you took a second to explain how you typically go about metering for correct/creative exposure before you started shooting. I think everyone has a unique process that helps introduce a new thing to learning studio photographers like myself.
...never used strobes or done studio work before, but I am dead set on crossing the Grace Line at some point in the very near future. Thanks for the pointer and the nudge.
Outdoor and Studio Portraits are one of my most favorite genre of photography! Your content is FIRE! Love it! If you thinking about getting another umbrella, get the biggest one with soft diffuser panel.
Shoooooot the power of lighting!!! The moods in the photos were dope and it's cool to see how encouraging you are with the peeps you work with and the models as well. Definitely would want to see more of these!
Mike I cant believe I'm just seeing this video now, these are insane portraits. I just got my hands on a 500cm. I'm super inspired to try to get a portraits close to this level of greatness omg
Nice video. I have a bronica ETR myself, although I haven’t shot with it in a long time. Comparing it with my modern digital camera, it makes me remember how it used to be in the days of film. Back then, your camera was an investment, and at least in medium format, the bodies didn’t change dramatically fast, it was the film that changed constantly to improve image quality, so people kept their bodies longer, and invested in better lenses to help improve their shots. And of course, you had the anticipation of waiting for the film to be developed to see if you got the settings correct. These days, much of that has changed, and bodies are constantly changed out, and that is good for beginners and people with lower amounts of money just starting out, because many of the cameras sold second hand are capable of making great quality images. But film does have a certain look to it, and that is why I won’t sell my ETR any time soon.
Mike you really do make the best portraits of the film shooting youtuber right now. Also so good video's, beats, editting and entertaining whilst informative!
Wow great portraits! Your confidence and charisma with the models helps everyone relax. I'm just starting in portrait photography and I'm learning a ton from you. Thank you sir.
Great work again Mike, thank you for continuing to share. Bro it’s cool to say you are a pro, pros are always still learning as well. It’s not arrogant to say you are a pro at what you do. GOD bless!!
Super nice video with the strobes ! That change a lot from natural light & to see your work with different setup is refreshing Always dope photos coming out of the box, much love from France as always homie, keep up the good vibe 🤙🏼
Cracking Mike, enjoyed the vid very much, super chill shoot and some great images coming out, pushing ourselves outside what we normally shoot is key to developing! Cheers, Tom
man this is dope. this should be on netflix or something lol. shooting film with strobes seems like a daunting task. this video gave me confidence to try it out.
Mike Another great video! Thanks for your inspiration; I will have a medium format film camera in the next 12 months. Price is a factor, so I may have to go Fujifilm. Currently shooting full frame DSLR. 👏🏽👏🏽👊🏽👍🏽👍🏽✌🏽 📸
Nice! I just hope, that one day, I will come across someone like you, mate! I love your videos, l love your photos even more and on top of that, your attitude, towards photography and people is amazing! Keep it up like that!
Hey Mike! I was wondering how you manage to get an idea of where the shadows are gonna be on your model's face. Do you shoot a few digital images before switching to film? I mean without the modeling lights, there's a kind of randomness in the process right?
