What are your personal ways of creating photographs? Here are some of mine! 

I’ve been shooting film for nearly 40 years. I’ve been watching RU-vid photography channels for 10 years. Your videos are an inspiration and a revelation. The beauty of film these days is the renewal of thoughtfulness, introspection, intentionality , and craftsmanship. I look forward every Saturday morning to your visits.

Long live film! The resurgance of film is the reason I'm here, have dusted off my cameras that have been living in boxes for 20yrs and am enjoying the process again. I am dabbling in digital but I keep coming back to the tray of film in my fridge. Agree with you about having camera options. I love trying new combinations of film stock and camera. Just this week I realised that I have tried any of the slide film in my fridge in my Pentax ME yet! I'm so excited for the weekend to run a roll. 📷 🎞 Your videos are great because they allow me to see a part of the world that is very far from my own (Australia) but also remind me that there are people all over the world that share my way of thinking about photography. Thank you for sharing! Yours is the only photo channel I watch consistently. Keep clicking!

In photography, I personally have never seen anything more beautiful than a well-printed black and white photograph, on fiber based paper, maybe selenium toned then matted with museum rag board in a simple black frame. I remember Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 photo paper and Polaroid Type 52 4x5 film and how luminous and tactile the pictures were. Gorgeous! Today those papers and film are gone and succeeded by other methods. Yesterday in a bar in San Francisco, the stranger sitting next to me, seeing my camera showed me a panoramic picture of the city, stitched together on a computer that he'd taken with a Leica M11 Monochrom and presented on his IPad. An excellent picture, decidedly digital and beautiful still. Well, maybe not as beautiful, but...

Shooting with film is therapy. It is a chance to listen to what you are thinking. The precision of film development is a craft. And the print is a reminder when it was just you and God.

Beethoven supposedly said "difficult is beautiful, difficult is closer to truth". Thank you for the inspiration! Kind regards from Sweden!

First I found myself with a Rolleiflex, then I discovered your videos. I’m a better human being for these two discoveries. You make the craft believable and enticing. Now I have more than one Rolleiflex. There you go. Film is incredible.

I have been watching your channel for a couple of years. Always found it interesting. Brightens my day. Keep up the good work.

Your work is inspiring, beautiful, captivating and often different enough to make me think about doing something I’m thinking about differently. And, I really enjoy watching your videos and listening to your perspective; often they give me reason to think about what I am doing or how I am doing it. Keep doing it!

How boring if we are all taking photos that look the same. Anyway you have character sometimes funny and different in a good way and then there is the piano so all round entertainment yeah that's why I am a subscriber. Thank you for entertaining us

I really like people, who tries to find their own, authentic, enjoyable way. I guess partly because it enables me to do the same. I feel like I (we) really need more of that in our current reality. Maybe also in form of photography, where we can try to find some magic in ourselves and our surroundings. So yes, I think at least in that sense, you are inspiration, thanks for that.

I spend all day every working day in front of a computer screen, and it is a joy to do something analogue in my personal time that doesn't involve a keyboard. I understand photography so much better because I'm a regular user of older cameras that go clunk when I take a picture, are temperamental and occasionally require taking apart. That said, I also use a digital when I must get it right, but I know what I'm doing. Love your videos!

You shoot film very differently than I do. But that fine because your message is exactly that: do things differently and have fun and get inspired.

Do what you love. Live in awe.

I've come to really enjoy not knowing what is going to be on that negative when I get it back from the lab. It's become clear to me that the images that I think are good, or interesting are not what many other photographers think, and that's fine. I love deciding which camera to take for a walk, which film to put in it, if there isn't a roll already, and where to go. Sometimes I'll think of a place I haven't been in a while, or there'll be something new. The most recent thing to try is double exposures, and I'm really pleased how some of them turned out. Some, of course, are a hot mess, and that's fine. It was a fun thing to try, and my model was really pleased to be part of it. That's almost more important than the actual image.

Sometimes it amazes me how off center some people can get about their own ideas. Imagine, a person goes to your channel clearly entitled "Shoot on Film", then trash you for shooting film. People have strong opinions about their strong opinions. Personally, I love your channel. I like the way you approach photography. I like that you don't chase after the "newest and latest" gear. I like that you experiment and use different cameras. It's all entertaining, enlightening , and inspirational.

Where is this negative comment? I'd like to give him a piece of my mind. You're work and your channel are just terrific. Pay no attention to Neanderthals.

I would certainly enjoy seeing your printing process in the same way that you label your gallery prints with lots of information, I find the printing process and environment fascinating.

Very nice to follow your videos. I usually agree 100% with your view. I studied photography, but only worked as a photographer for the last ten years of my career, working with advanced digital cameras. Now that I'm retired, I'm actually returning completely to analog black&white, as I did in my student days. It is so much more fun to work with all kinds of old equipment, from 110 film to 8x10 inches. I've played all kinds of gear, and these days I stick with my Rolleiflex... for the time being (next month it could be something completely different). Keep going, Ari!

Photography has made me see everything differently. And I know the reason you use the methods you use. Because you sir, are a REBEL!!!! Don't ever change. ;)

Your picture, your way. I like and respect you for knowing what makes you happy and enjoy your images. The idea that there is a right way to make and present an image to be followed in one’s artistic journey, is missing the point for creative photography. Thanks for posting!

I have been watching your channel for a long time now and enjoyed every one of them as they are inspiring and as you said all that matters for those who use photography as a hobby is because of " enjoyment of the process and interesting results" and that is all that matters. I have friends who are professional photographers and do not enjoy the photography for the clients / business and for enjoyments they go out and do things on their own personal projects with some tools that they do not use in their professional works! I take pictures using digital and film and find it far more enjoyable to take the analogue journey to reach to an interesting and rewarding result. Keep it up and I admire you using your own music in the background too.

Another unique and interesting video! Something I've learned from you: sometimes getting further back works well A comment: pushing film does not make a film more sensitive to low light. What it does is increase the contrast by raising highlights. But I think that's what you're looking for. 😊😊😊

Hello Ari I like the way you approach, and love your photography. The last 10 or more years, I was into digital, and sometimes still do for easier, and cleaner images. But since about half a year or more, I enjoy shooting, and develope black and white images. They are far from my usual digital images, but that's okay. It's the way of not being 100% in control, and not knowing what the outcome might be. Loading the film, calculate in my head the exposure, and after that develope the film, and after the fixing, see the negative. It's a special reward. It's being "inside" of the process, what I like, and still try to learn. You're not alone, and I enjoy watching and listening to your thoughts. Keep on going.

A camera type I haven't seen you talk about are medium format folders. Some of them can produce images almost as fuzzy as a Holga! Especially if you can contrive to shoot wide open. They have the added advantage of being able to take a filter.

I find your way of thinking and your photography an inspiration Ari, not that I intend to try and copy you, but you give me lots of ideas. Your insistence on using those ridiculous (and by ridiculous I mean fantastic, but kind of crazy at the same time) Graflex cameras makes me REALLY want one in my life - I have to keep telling myself "I don't need to start shooting large format".....it's only a matter of time, slippery slope and all that......

You are one of a very select few channels that I consider essential to my RU-vid experience. Your work is as inspirational as your content is informational and entertaining. Well done. Greetings from Eastern Washington State 🌲🌲 🏞️🌲🌲

I didn’t know I needed this video so much until I saw it ✨

Hey Ari, I love your work and your channel. Follow your bliss, keep breaking the rules and ignore the haters!

Bravo, I agree with you Ari.

your channel opened my mind. Like a rebirth. But it's always good to have contradiction. My questionement is about distance and also DoF currently. And how to show love, loss. And questions about loneliness and solitude in a photograph. One of my friend told me that some of my photographs have a lack of movement. Movement what a topic in photography.

Thank you Sir, I am or was very concerned about following many of the rules in photography so as to fit in the crowd. I listened to you and you own unique, (some would say brave ), take on these rules and I am encouraged to make my photography My way. I learnt photography on a film camera and then moved to digital but I heart was in B/W film. So I very recently bought myself a film camera and I have been so inspired and excited by photography again. Thank you for being brave enough to step out of what is expected and share your own way of photography.

This one was very inspiring indeed ☺️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I love your stuff Ari!! Keep it up mate 🙂

I don’t understand why anyone would critize how you do your photography; it’s a lot like how I do mine. We are, afterall, doing photography as an exploration of who we are, not who they are.

Excellent video as always!

Ari, I shoot film for me. I watch many film/darkroom videos and admit I learn from these. However, I find some are arrogant and preachy. I enjoy your videos because you are neither. We shoot very similarly, including using a different camera every time out. There are an infinite number of reasons why I have no social media, these kinds of comments are just one of them. You keep being you and I'll keep watching. Thanks.

Inspired am I … thanks for sharing and that delightful piano accompaniment! 📷⛵️🎹🌞

Hey Ari, truly enjoyed this episode.

Yeah...I can’t find anything to disagree with here. I guess I love your channel because we are cut from same cloth, so to speak.❤️👍

Always a fan❤

re: writing the camera model next to the exhibition picture. I was seeing the Pentti Sammallahti exhibition (Me kaksi / The Two of Us) in Helsinki this winter. Many (or maybe all?) of the pictures that were taken in Russia in the early 90's were obviously done with some kind of swing lens camera. But I could not find anywhere what camera he used to confirm this. I think it was the best use of a swing lens camera I have seen, though admittedly I don't know that many people that use it (like Jeff Bridges). I tried to search for articles talking about his cameras, but they said that he always uses medium format and gave examples like Pentax 67 and a Rollei. Neither of those cameras have a swing lens. Panon made some 120 swing lens cameras, but to my eye they looked more like a Horizont picture... or maybe I imagined it because of the location of the pictures. The exhibitions should at least have a camera geek corner somewhere, where this is explained :D

I love your insights and philosophy towards photography. For me it is more about the process and learning my equipment. Utilizing the quirks and nuances of the film, chemistry, paper, and the camera as well as my own personal quirks, makes the entire process enjoyable. And that is why I do photography.....it is enjoyable!

I know you are a musician too. Some members of the photographic choir have trouble tolerating choral pieces with many parts. The different lines are not experienced as enhancement or complexity,. Rather, an irritation develops. I am much in agreement with you when it comes to personal style. Let each photographer sing their own part while others may be following a different line. It is what makes the music beautiful!

Your videos are a source of inspiration simply because you do things Your way Ari. Keep it up! I enjoy both your B&W and color photos. Specially the ones with and about your cute little boat. Cheers!

My approach to photography is very much like yours, cameras spanning almost 100 years from oldest to newest, all formats from 110 to 8”x10”, color, b&w, all at the same time!😊 Looked at another photography RU-vidr video this morning. He read a comment from a viewer that sounded very much like the aggressive comment you received. Something going around…same person? Could be.

I like that the Holga is front and centre on your desk there. Some beautiful images there.

Just like you, Im still in the experimental phase as I re-started doing photography. I like to always carry my camera with me and take photos if I get an interesting opportunity. But I chose to use a single camera, a folding Polaroid 680 just because of its limitations and the limitations of the film. I like the really low dynamic range and square format as it makes me stop and think. Discovering you and your photographs gave me an additional way of thinking. Its always interesting and inspiring to see new videos and photographs. :) Edit: counting in my young age and budget, I think Im doing okay haha

Very good video. Yes, those people feel powerful getting their piss out and one can laugh at them for being this insecure, jealous or whatever, they are missing the point of photography

Thé background music is a nice touch. Your images are interesting keep doing what you’re doing

Thanks for shearing... 1st rule enjoy ! Love it😊

People will comment like that because they like to troll other people. Why they do this, usually because they are insecure and someone is doing something different. I enjoying seeing how you think, or other photographers think, because it is usually different than how I think or look at a scene. So now the outcome will be different than my normal pictures. Which can be either good or bad. Now I can tweak different procedures to fine tune what I would like from that scene. I have heard use one camera or one lens, but I never went by that, but I do have a question. Would people say that now because the sensor is acting like the film and that stays relatively constant with slight changes throughout the ISO range? Would it be wiser (?) to understand your film? Each film will “behave” differently and to achieve better results you would have to understand the needs and wants, like a partner or child. Haha Thanks for another great video, the insights and the photographs!

yeah, you shake it up...!

"I am glad that You stuck around to the end" OK Sorry :) :) I watch all of Your Videos !!! Please Do Not Change :) Some YT People do not read the Comments..... If You do simply react as You Did on this Video (there are so many Nasty People) :( :( :( Luv Ya Man !!!!!!!!

Your video caused me to stop and I had to think for a good bit about my “ approach”. It took at least a cup of coffee but eventually occurred to me that my current approach is the result of many decades (since the late sixties) of shooting film and carrying a camera with me wherever I go. At one time I think I might have had a more succinct approach probably defined by books and manuals I read and inspired by pictures I saw in books I had purchased or Nat Geo or Life magazines. But today - I don’t think about it much any more. (Scary?). Maybe if I am headed to the soccer field or volleyball the F5 is a better choice of tools but if we are just out and about my F3 is still a a trusted companion (although failing eyesight makes manual focus increasingly challenging) The Hasselblad comes out when …… I feel like it(?). Black and white for sure if I have a need to load a new roll. But sometimes color is already there and left over from the holidays or a special occasion. Your approach DID resonate for me on one count in that I am constantly framing and evaluating light as I go about my day. The. World is far too full of something worthy of a photo to not do so. . But at the end of it all there is very little thought. It’s instinct at this point, and most importantly - as you point out - I do it for me, and that’s good enough. Thanks for making me “think” about it today, Ari. I am better for it.

Amen

Classic German author Goethe once said "Entschuldigung, ich hatte nicht genug Zeit um mich kurz zu fassen!" (Sorry, I didn't had enough time to be brief!). He meant, that the art of good literature is to get rid of all the needless and superfluous things and only keep that what is essential for the story. This needs time, and the more you invest of it on a text the better it becomes. I try to transport this advice to photography - I strife for taking the time to find the essential part of a motif (to me, that is) and concentrate on that in the photograph. This needs time. You need to assess the motif, find its essentials - what exactly makes you want to take that picture - and try to make this visible and the main statement of the photograph. The more intense you are at doing this, the more time you will invest into the photograph. Digital photography has the treachery effect of derailing you from this. It seduces you to press the shutter quickly, since you always can press it again and again and again with no effort and no cost. And in the end, this no effort and no cost shows in your pictures. You end up machine gunning in the hope that there will be one or two decent pictures among all the rubbish. Thus I do digital only for documentary and note taking purposes. The larger the film format is, the more you are motivated and even forced to invest time into the picture. Thus I also don't shoot 35mm cameras, and even more than medium format my preferred format is my 5x7" large format camera. I also have an 11x14" camera, which unfortunately is to cumbersome to take it with me and the material to expensive to frequently use it, but with this one I invest at least half an hour composing the shot (I'm mostly doing portraits and sometimes still life with it), while with the 5x7" it's only around 10 minutes, and medium format around 2 to 3 minutes on average for one shot. It really shows - the more time I invest in a motif, the better the photograph. Usually.

Another good one !!! ...rb

HEY! JUST KEEP ON SHARING, A GOOD EXAMPLE WAS THE ARTIST: ROBERT ROSS. HE USED A BARN BRUSH TO PAINT WITH ,BUT...PEOPLE LOVED HIM BECAUSE... HE SHARED HOW HE WAS DOING THINGS IN AN UNIMPOSING MANNER. THIS IS BOTH CAPTIVATING AND CALMING . THERE IS A SAYING IN THE US...DON"T LET THE (*%#$)'S GET YOU DOWN. LIKE YOUR OLDER CAMERA'S. 😁

Rules are just someone else's idea of what you should or shouldn't do. Make your own rules!

thanks for another great video, I wish you had a Flickr account, so those of us who are not on instagram could see your daily uploads 🙏🙏🙏

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I have really lazy ways of making images I like. I take pictures of beautiful things like mountains, waterfalls, leaping deer, cute bunnies, etc. Then the picture looks beautiful because the subject is beautiful. I take macro images because they are surprising since we can't see the same detail with our eyes. I take pictures with a microscope for the same reason. I take pictures of celestial objects with a telescope or a very long lens because I like them. I take infrared pictures because they make people look like anime people in a dream world. I take pictures with odd lenses because I like the strange effects. A fisheye will bend straight lines into curves. I like to take pictures from weird angles with lenses that don't match our eyes, because they make us think, "what's going on?" I try things I haven't tried to find out if I like it. As you can see by my confession, I am a lazy hack and not an artist. I follow rules and reject the same rules on a whim.

As a pro of 25 years... take (or don't - it sounds so arrogant to say "take") this advice... unless it is for a brief/client... do what rocks your boat. I shoot film in my spare time for me and my RU-vid thingies (I did professionally earlier in my career) to force me away from portfolio/stock image/client usage thinking. I do fall in the trap of shooting to test film gear sometimes, instead of just shooting for me, but I love my Yashica LM with its messed up lens and weird abberstions, for instance. Do you. I like your work a lot.

Digital= Electric guitar/piano Film = Acoustic guitar/piano

Hey where’s this week’s S-Dan tune? Probably sound more ‘stylistic’ when it’s played out of tune. Hehe

There are people out there who do not understand the tactile genius of analogue technology. They do not appreciate learning about the history of how things came to be. Now, that's fine. But that was a very rude comment. It's unclear to me as how one comes to make a statement like that, but it's clear that it reeks of somebody with no social integrity and likely very little experience in real life. I don't think you will be able to make somebody like that understand why you love and do your things, but hey, it's always worth a try.

Your way of not making sense, makes a lot of sense to me.

I hate that you feel the need to make a video explaining and justifying why you shoot the way you want to. It shouldn't have to be this way. Other people are not entitled to tell you what you should do with your time, money etc. Thanks for sharing this video.