Always enjoy your videos. I've learned so many things. Don't ever change! The photos are always epic, but it's your personality that makes it a pleasure to watch. Watching over your shoulder from the Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA., USA
Shout out to Port Angeles! Beautiful place. Look forward to returning to ONP one day. Wonderful memories of a week spent in Forks and 1000 miles put on the rental during the week long photo trip.
Ahh finally Wednesday again. The highlight of the week on the tube. You are a great inspiration, not just the photo but the whole package with the personality and campervan and everything
2:38 hey, Thomas, you didn't ask but here is few tips for 6x6. If you need to shoot from high point but you can not see what is the scene in the finder just mount your camera to tripod not in "landscape" orientation but "portrait", so your finder appears on the left side of the camera. If you need very high point of view - stand back forwards to the scene, hold your camera as usual and rise it up rotating your shoulders with your strait hands. So the viewfinder appear above your head and you can have a look at it in the higher point than your tripod can reach. Looks awkward but works)) As you know 6x6 is square so rotation wont change the ratio.
Not sure if the Hasselblad has a way to mount in 'portrait' orientation. But on that head, you could turn the top clamp 90 degrees and use the tilt mechanism to get to that orientation. Then maybe use the tripod legs for any necessary tilt.
@@melvilib His tripod is a 'tilt-shift' model. The tilt can go to 90 degrees, and the clamp can be turned so the camera is horizontal after the tilt. Since the tilt feature is not available from the head at this point, simply extending or shortening the front tripod leg can work as a tilt. Of course, a ball head could do the same without the fuss, but that's not what he had.
Always love the fact that your trips out are more of the experience rather than every trip is full of epic shots and the best conditions known to man. A true account and every photography can relate to a sunset that looks like it’s happening for it to turn to nothing 👍🏻👍🏻
I was lucky enough to study under the last dark room assistant to Ansel Adams 😮 I miss the film and darkroom days. 😊 We used Nikon 35mm and Hasselblad 6x6
I think the horizon bang in the middle works on a square space because we as human love symmetry and in photography it does not get more sympetrical than a square space.
Always loved your videos but due to life I haven't watched one in probably over a year. Loving the lean into the sounds of the scene you are in. More quiet time. 👌 A talented chap. Continued success. 🙌
Thomas, with a square format all you should need to do is turn the camera on its side and stand to the side of the camera. Not a perfect solution, but workable. Me, i shoot 6x4.5 with a Mamiya 645 1000s and use a pentaprizm finder exclusively. I also have a dedicated device which allows me to switch seamlessly between horizontal and vertical. That said, I will admit to envying the ease with which you as a 6x6 shooter can use a waist level finder. Always enjoyed that with my old tlr cameras. Cheers
Exactly what I was. Going to say. I don't have a prism finder, so occasionally I resort to tilting the tripod head to 90 degrees. Adjusting framing gets even weirder, but it's doable.
There's something about the film making in this video that I really love. Maybe the silent takes or even a different camera? I don't know, but there's something special here
4:46 love the s lead in line, the texture in the foreground is brilliant 6:33 another strong lead in line great texture in the foreground and the cloud 8:58 Fabulous image contrasting the patterns in the wet sand and waves with the negative space in the dry sand and the sky 9:55 beautiful patterns in the foreground and featureless sand and sky 13:02 Dramatic contrast with dark cloud and land vs the bright reflected light off the water 17:37 great pastel colours reflected in the water, beautiful 18:37 strong s curve through the dark textured sane, contrasted with the bright negative space being the sky, thanks for sharing
Man, that first shot is jaw-dropping. Saw it first in the newsletter, and was quite happy to see it's "real world" counterpart. Fantastic composition and elements!
I really enjoyed the pacing of this one, and am a fan of the square crop. It tells such a different story and has a poetry all its own. Wonderful work.
Wow, stunning images! ❤️ I'm looking forward to visiting the UK soon; I absolutely adore the landscapes there. I'm setting off on a six-week journey around France in my photo van, starting from Poland. I'm excited to capture some beautiful shots. You're a fantastic inspiration!
Thank you so much for all of your work! I’m slowly making my way through your videos, newest to oldest. I’m not sure I’ve learned as much or been as inspired to go out and photograph from anyone before.
It’s reassuring that even photographers like you have that sense of relief with the first image. There is some deep creative psychology behind that you need to explain to us 😂
Another calming video which makes you appreciate the nature around, thank you Thomas! It is a pleasure watching you walking around searching for a frame and also cooking. By the way, you could use the X-T4 with a tilt screen in a Live View mode as a viewfinder for the Hasselblad 😎
I really love the first one. The lines of water on the foreground are gorgeous. The famous "why bother with film ?" ... I know that. 99.99% of my shots are down on film. People always ask me that and your answer is like mine, for the experience, the process (touching the film, developing, testing in the darkroom), it is so tangible. Of course there are pros and cons, but you have to learn to play with them and experiment. I am a sucker for square format (with my pinhole camera) and most of the time, I put the horizon right in the middle, and I, too, find it works well. Thank you for your work
In an age where digital media gives you the option to do just about anything but alter the earth’s trajectory around the sun, it’s instructive to see you make do as best you can with the limitations of the analog format. Art thrives on restrictions.
I have enjoyed your videos from Harris and Lewis. I visited there last month and had very different weather - near constant rain and very high winds for 4 of the 5 days. I still felt it was a pretty place.
I love the fact that you're shooting on film. I've recently resurrected by Nikon FA and loaded it up with some Ilford SFX200 IR film for a bit of play! Happy Days! 😃
I can't but help laughing, seeing you struggle a bit to cross the stream at 1:15, realizing that once you crossed it, you would have to go back to get the camera and do it all again!
Finally another video with analog photography. I'm currently using my Bronica SQ Ai and I hope that the electronics will last a long time and that I'll always have a spare battery with me. Otherwise very similar to the Hasi. I'm almost a little jealous because my wife doesn't want to let me go alone and when she's there, the slowness of taking photos annoys her.
Great video - I like that you broke out a film camera, and a great Hasselblad as well. I recently picked up a 6x9 film camera - a 1951 Voightlander Bessa II - I see so much potential in the images this gives me - I just need to learn the camera more....anyways I really enjoyed the video and I'd like to see more film stuff from your channel.
I had the same dilemma with my Hasselblad shooting high, here's what I did; I prefocused at eye level then raised my tripod to the desired hight. I double checked my composition with my iPhone selfie camera, [one can also do it with a floppy screen digital camera by both pointing down into the VF and see the live view on the LCD monitor. I made sure I had my wire remote release so not to nudge the camera off my chosen line of view. Also with large Tripods that can reverse the center column, you can invert the Hassy under the tripod and view from under which may look weird but it works.
When you forget your viewing thingy, I would suggest that you remove the back, slide out the viewfinder hood, then lay it on top of the view screen on its side, with the magnifier end furthest away by the lens, but with the magnifier retracted. That way you should get a slightly offset idea of your frame when looking through it. A bit like a twin lens reflex.
Great video Tom, you should have used your phone and taken shots down the view finder while it was up high on the tripod. A fantastic collection of images, you really captured the atmosphere of thise coastal scenes, enjoyed the video 👍
Was listening to Adam Gibbs the other day on a podcast, and he’s right, your videos are quite cinematic in themselves. Anyway, usual tip top world class photography, all going swimmingly until the satay hits the venison🤯. There’s a counter culture culinary YT channel lurking in there - Heaton’s Heatups!
Hi Thomas, great video as usual, thank you. Quick thought, you could use your tripod basically as a pole to vault across from bank to bank in situations like the start of the video.
When I visited Harris and Lewis last year I stayed near your overnight parking spot, it’s a totally underrated part of the island if that was Eoropie Beach, the beach on the other side, Port of Ness beach is also a fantastic beach to photograph!
My little trick when using the Hasselblad at eye level with WLF is to use an L bracket (always in place) and tilt the camera on its side and look into it sideways. Its awkward at first but it does work and the L bracket weighs very little.
Really lovely images and a great video as always! Just a small thought about the waist-level finder issue at the beginning of the video, but since it's a square format image could you not just set the tripod head or use an L-bracket as if you were setting the camera in portrait mode so that the viewfinder was facing sideways instead of straight up? A square on its side is still a square so it wouldn't change the composition, but it'd be a bit easier to see the viewfinder on a taller viewpoint composition without needing a step-ladder 😅
Enjoyed the video as usual Thomas. A very interesting camera. You captured some really nice image's as usual. Could you please tell me what gas griddle cooker you used to cook the venison. Look forward to the next one.
Hey Thomas. Was thinking, if you have to set up your Hasselblad high, use you phones camera to view or take a shot and review comp. If this helps. Cheers.
Tom, Idea! Use your phone to frame the image, zoom the mobile's lens to approximate the view, then hold the phone back against the front of the lens filter thread so the phone lens is in line with the 'Blad's lens axis, take a quick shot to assess. It just might work.
The older Hasselblad "non-automatic" film backs can easily give you 13 exposures rather than 12 per 120 roll. When loading film, just stop a bit short of lining up the arrows. Have done this for years with no problems. 8% greater capacity per roll. Paul K Tacoma, WA USA
Great video , with amazing images . Really enjoyed ypor “Photography Chronicle” this week as well . The coment at the end Nick you owe me $700 did mack me laugh 😂
What you need is a small mirror in your bag, I have one, I bought on amazon plastic with handle 100mm x 100mm gets me out of a few situations when viewing is difficult
I'm sure it's been said already but loving the quiet sections you've left in with just the ambient sound.
Absolutely! It felt like a documentary, with no unnecessary music
It was the sounds of the sea and the wind, lovely shots.
9:45 blew my mind. What an image!
It could be the glass whisky I am drinking but that video just felt very comforting and relaxing. Cheers Tom🥃
Jason
Best photo of the day
Man emptying welly. f11 1/60
Always enjoy your videos. I've learned so many things. Don't ever change! The photos are always epic, but it's your personality that makes it a pleasure to watch. Watching over your shoulder from the Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, WA., USA
I appreciate that, thanks a lot 👍
Shout out to Port Angeles! Beautiful place. Look forward to returning to ONP one day. Wonderful memories of a week spent in Forks and 1000 miles put on the rental during the week long photo trip.
Ahh finally Wednesday again. The highlight of the week on the tube. You are a great inspiration, not just the photo but the whole package with the personality and campervan and everything
My sentiments exactly!! (except it's Thursday morning here in Australia)
I always love these slower paced videos. It makes it feel like we are there with you.
2:38 hey, Thomas, you didn't ask but here is few tips for 6x6.
If you need to shoot from high point but you can not see what is the scene in the finder just mount your camera to tripod not in "landscape" orientation but "portrait", so your finder appears on the left side of the camera.
If you need very high point of view - stand back forwards to the scene, hold your camera as usual and rise it up rotating your shoulders with your strait hands. So the viewfinder appear above your head and you can have a look at it in the higher point than your tripod can reach. Looks awkward but works))
As you know 6x6 is square so rotation wont change the ratio.
Not sure if the Hasselblad has a way to mount in 'portrait' orientation. But on that head, you could turn the top clamp 90 degrees and use the tilt mechanism to get to that orientation. Then maybe use the tripod legs for any necessary tilt.
@@robertstonephoto No, but the tripod can?
Nice tips. It didn't occur to me to rotate the camera. Thanks a lot 👍
@@melvilib His tripod is a 'tilt-shift' model. The tilt can go to 90 degrees, and the clamp can be turned so the camera is horizontal after the tilt. Since the tilt feature is not available from the head at this point, simply extending or shortening the front tripod leg can work as a tilt. Of course, a ball head could do the same without the fuss, but that's not what he had.
Enjoyed this one a lot, thank you. The calm and less speaking scenes really spoke to the analog experience. ❤
I love your appreciation for analogue photography and the 6x6 format!
Always love the fact that your trips out are more of the experience rather than every trip is full of epic shots and the best conditions known to man. A true account and every photography can relate to a sunset that looks like it’s happening for it to turn to nothing 👍🏻👍🏻
Your videos are not only informative and beautiful; they’re relaxing!
thanks for slowing down and the peaceful feeling.
I was lucky enough to study under the last dark room assistant to Ansel Adams 😮
I miss the film and darkroom days. 😊
We used Nikon 35mm
and Hasselblad 6x6
I think the horizon bang in the middle works on a square space because we as human love symmetry and in photography it does not get more sympetrical than a square space.
this program is brought to you by square space
@@DylanProwse727 pun definetly intended
Thomas, you are without a doubt our favorite UA-cam photographer.
Always loved your videos but due to life I haven't watched one in probably over a year. Loving the lean into the sounds of the scene you are in. More quiet time. 👌
A talented chap. Continued success. 🙌
THIS is the kind of video I enjoy. No camera sweeping this time, like 2 weeks ago. I skipped the rest of that video after watching it for 2 minutes.
The UK has some truly beautiful places.
Thomas, with a square format all you should need to do is turn the camera on its side and stand to the side of the camera. Not a perfect solution, but workable. Me, i shoot 6x4.5 with a Mamiya 645 1000s and use a pentaprizm finder exclusively. I also have a dedicated device which allows me to switch seamlessly between horizontal and vertical. That said, I will admit to envying the ease with which you as a 6x6 shooter can use a waist level finder. Always enjoyed that with my old tlr cameras. Cheers
Exactly what I was. Going to say. I don't have a prism finder, so occasionally I resort to tilting the tripod head to 90 degrees. Adjusting framing gets even weirder, but it's doable.
Wonderfully peaceful road trip with the film camera Thomas. Film suited this trip well, I think. Great images!
Nice to see the film get a run again.
Love the use of the orange filter on the Delta 100. It really enriches the contrast. Love the channel too 🙂
There's something about the film making in this video that I really love. Maybe the silent takes or even a different camera? I don't know, but there's something special here
Such lovely film photos! Thanks for always making us in "Tube-land" feel like we are right there with you, wet feet and all. Greetings from IL, USA.
Glad you enjoyed it, and yes, wet feet is always a disaster 😂
4:46 love the s lead in line, the texture in the foreground is brilliant 6:33 another strong lead in line great texture in the foreground and the cloud 8:58 Fabulous image contrasting the patterns in the wet sand and waves with the negative space in the dry sand and the sky 9:55 beautiful patterns in the foreground and featureless sand and sky 13:02 Dramatic contrast with dark cloud and land vs the bright reflected light off the water 17:37 great pastel colours reflected in the water, beautiful 18:37 strong s curve through the dark textured sane, contrasted with the bright negative space being the sky, thanks for sharing
ah that beautiful camera! beautiful photography. all so peaceful and calming after a busy day. thank you.
Always enjoable to whatch you in the process
Really like this camera ❤
Man, that first shot is jaw-dropping. Saw it first in the newsletter, and was quite happy to see it's "real world" counterpart. Fantastic composition and elements!
Excellent. More of this type of video using your film cameras please.
I love it when you bust out the film cameras! Great video, and great shots!
Excellent stuff Thomas. This has to be my favourite camera you own the images you make with are top drawer.
Nice chilled adventure, cheers Thomas
Agreed with the comment below Tom! Just fab! 👏
I really enjoyed the pacing of this one, and am a fan of the square crop. It tells such a different story and has a poetry all its own. Wonderful work.
Nice little spot. Thanks Tom!! Beautiful images.
Cool video. It's nice to see you do film photography. Gret work.
finally a film episode!
Nice comps with the 6x6 😊
I always enjoy your videos but the feel of this one was just off the charts, loved it ❤
Great video. If I was there I’d forget to take photos, and just lap up the land and light. A great location.
Wow, stunning images! ❤️ I'm looking forward to visiting the UK soon; I absolutely adore the landscapes there. I'm setting off on a six-week journey around France in my photo van, starting from Poland. I'm excited to capture some beautiful shots. You're a fantastic inspiration!
Thank you so much for all of your work!
I’m slowly making my way through your videos, newest to oldest.
I’m not sure I’ve learned as much or been as inspired to go out and photograph from anyone before.
Yay, another film video! I've been stumped by the waist lever a few times. So frustrating.
You and me both!
It’s reassuring that even photographers like you have that sense of relief with the first image. There is some deep creative psychology behind that you need to explain to us 😂
Nice Video Thomas! Just quiet photography.
Such amazing photos!
always love your video about film analog, hope will see this more
Love your video. After watching this, I wanna buy a hasselblad for myself.
Another calming video which makes you appreciate the nature around, thank you Thomas! It is a pleasure watching you walking around searching for a frame and also cooking.
By the way, you could use the X-T4 with a tilt screen in a Live View mode as a viewfinder for the Hasselblad 😎
I really love the first one. The lines of water on the foreground are gorgeous. The famous "why bother with film ?" ... I know that. 99.99% of my shots are down on film. People always ask me that and your answer is like mine, for the experience, the process (touching the film, developing, testing in the darkroom), it is so tangible. Of course there are pros and cons, but you have to learn to play with them and experiment.
I am a sucker for square format (with my pinhole camera) and most of the time, I put the horizon right in the middle, and I, too, find it works well.
Thank you for your work
Are they oystercatcher we hear in the video ?
Beautiful images. Worth the trip for sure.
Another enjoyable episode well done Tom.
In an age where digital media gives you the option to do just about anything but alter the earth’s trajectory around the sun, it’s instructive to see you make do as best you can with the limitations of the analog format. Art thrives on restrictions.
Stunning shots in this video!
Glad you like them, thanks a lot.
Film is the Way
Beautiful images as always 📷 thanks for sharing!
Your videos are always good. Not a film shooter but the techniques apply for digital as well. Good job
For sure. Photography is photography, film or digital 👍
Great video. I like your 6x6 work!
I have enjoyed your videos from Harris and Lewis. I visited there last month and had very different weather - near constant rain and very high winds for 4 of the 5 days. I still felt it was a pretty place.
I love the fact that you're shooting on film. I've recently resurrected by Nikon FA and loaded it up with some Ilford SFX200 IR film for a bit of play! Happy Days! 😃
Beautiful images. I love 6x6.
Have missed your film videos. All images were beautiful but that very first one on Delta 100 was the dog's bollocks .. stunning!!!
Haha, nice one. Glad you liked it.
Great video and great shots.
Another great vlog Thomas☕️🧿
Great video. Makes me want to dust down my film cameras!
You are challenging my understanding of overexposed :)
Gorgeous images!
00:40 when you walked to water edge, I was saying “jump!”. Disappointed you walked away, cheers when you ran back 😂.
I can't but help laughing, seeing you struggle a bit to cross the stream at 1:15, realizing that once you crossed it, you would have to go back to get the camera and do it all again!
Finally another video with analog photography. I'm currently using my Bronica SQ Ai and I hope that the electronics will last a long time and that I'll always have a spare battery with me. Otherwise very similar to the Hasi. I'm almost a little jealous because my wife doesn't want to let me go alone and when she's there, the slowness of taking photos annoys her.
Ah, yes. There could be trouble brewing if your prioritise photography over time with your wife. Best of luck 😕😂
Thomas taking photos 10/10. Thomas crossing a river 3/10
Excellent images. Shows the value of some forced patience, I think.
Great video - I like that you broke out a film camera, and a great Hasselblad as well. I recently picked up a 6x9 film camera - a 1951 Voightlander Bessa II - I see so much potential in the images this gives me - I just need to learn the camera more....anyways I really enjoyed the video and I'd like to see more film stuff from your channel.
Amazing as always! More film photography please! Wonder when you will bring back the large format camera ;)
I had the same dilemma with my Hasselblad shooting high, here's what I did; I prefocused at eye level then raised my tripod to the desired hight. I double checked my composition with my iPhone selfie camera, [one can also do it with a floppy screen digital camera by both pointing down into the VF and see the live view on the LCD monitor. I made sure I had my wire remote release so not to nudge the camera off my chosen line of view.
Also with large Tripods that can reverse the center column, you can invert the Hassy under the tripod and view from under which may look weird but it works.
When you forget your viewing thingy, I would suggest that you remove the back, slide out the viewfinder hood, then lay it on top of the view screen on its side, with the magnifier end furthest away by the lens, but with the magnifier retracted. That way you should get a slightly offset idea of your frame when looking through it. A bit like a twin lens reflex.
Looks like you power slid into your parking spot at the very beginning, nicely done 😂
Really beautiful shots.
Many thanks!
Great video Tom, you should have used your phone and taken shots down the view finder while it was up high on the tripod. A fantastic collection of images, you really captured the atmosphere of thise coastal scenes, enjoyed the video 👍
great photos!
Was listening to Adam Gibbs the other day on a podcast, and he’s right, your videos are quite cinematic in themselves. Anyway, usual tip top world class photography, all going swimmingly until the satay hits the venison🤯. There’s a counter culture culinary YT channel lurking in there - Heaton’s Heatups!
Perfection as always. Thanks for making this one!
Glad you like it!
Hi Thomas, great video as usual, thank you. Quick thought, you could use your tripod basically as a pole to vault across from bank to bank in situations like the start of the video.
When I visited Harris and Lewis last year I stayed near your overnight parking spot, it’s a totally underrated part of the island if that was Eoropie Beach, the beach on the other side, Port of Ness beach is also a fantastic beach to photograph!
Lovely photos Tom.
Glad you like them, thanks a lot.
That 'red' filter looked decidedly Satsuma to my eyes!
This is the camera you should use all the time. Maybe add a Pentax 6x7
My little trick when using the Hasselblad at eye level with WLF is to use an L bracket (always in place) and tilt the camera on its side and look into it sideways. Its awkward at first but it does work and the L bracket weighs very little.
Venison with satay sauce? Jeez, I bet there was a commotion in the van during the night. Great video, as always.
Haha, yeah it was all I had left.
Really lovely images and a great video as always! Just a small thought about the waist-level finder issue at the beginning of the video, but since it's a square format image could you not just set the tripod head or use an L-bracket as if you were setting the camera in portrait mode so that the viewfinder was facing sideways instead of straight up? A square on its side is still a square so it wouldn't change the composition, but it'd be a bit easier to see the viewfinder on a taller viewpoint composition without needing a step-ladder 😅
Thanks!
Thanks, Jeff. This is very much appreciate. 👍
Enjoyed the video as usual Thomas.
A very interesting camera.
You captured some really nice image's as usual.
Could you please tell me what gas griddle cooker you used to cook the venison.
Look forward to the next one.
Hey Thomas. Was thinking, if you have to set up your Hasselblad high, use you phones camera to view or take a shot and review comp. If this helps. Cheers.
Love when you shoot film with the hasselblad. Btw. Get some sun on those legs. Lol😅
Tom, Idea! Use your phone to frame the image, zoom the mobile's lens to approximate the view, then hold the phone back against the front of the lens filter thread so the phone lens is in line with the 'Blad's lens axis, take a quick shot to assess. It just might work.
The older Hasselblad "non-automatic" film backs can easily give you 13 exposures rather than 12 per 120 roll. When loading film, just stop a bit short of lining up the arrows. Have done this for years with no problems. 8% greater capacity per roll. Paul K Tacoma, WA USA
Great video , with amazing images . Really enjoyed ypor “Photography Chronicle” this week as well . The coment at the end Nick you owe me $700 did mack me laugh 😂
Haha, glad you spotted that little comment 😂
What you need is a small mirror in your bag, I have one, I bought on amazon plastic with handle 100mm x 100mm gets me out of a few situations when viewing is difficult