Really enjoyed this series , Ben. Always appreciate you sharing your thoughts and self reflections. Safe travels if you head out to Zion for winter. I’m just returning from Death Valley and Zion myself.
Your patience and knowledge and pre-visualization is awesome, in general, but with that skyward facing photo and the identification of a specific leaf, so cool.
Ben, you are the poster child for perseverance for sure! I'm always so happy when you get one that you are satisfied with, but also appreciate your high standards for your art. I loved them too. I did have to chuckle a bit about the 'little leaf' and (almost) wanted to grab some glue!! "Next time".
I use a ISO 100 speed film, so the sensitivity is the exact same as any other ISO 100 film or a digital camera at ISO 100. The difference is the aperture that's required for a reasonable depth of field on 8x10. The larger the film(or sensor) the shallower the DOF at a given aperture, so I need to stop down to f/45 to get a reasonable enough DOF to get enough of the subject in focus. My lenses typically go to f/64 or even f/128 as the max aperture, but stopping down that far would lead to diffraction in the same way that stopping down all the way that it would on a digital system. F/45 is a bit of a sweet spot for depth of field while avoiding diffraction.
Ben, your attention to detail and understanding of the way the light changes in Zion is amazing. I loved that moment with the charismatic leaf.
Glad to see the videos and photography going strong. The videos still bring a great sense of calm and the photos as well.
I can't believe how still the air stayed for your looong exposure 🙂
Really enjoyed this series , Ben. Always appreciate you sharing your thoughts and self reflections. Safe travels if you head out to Zion for winter. I’m just returning from Death Valley and Zion myself.
Your patience and knowledge and pre-visualization is awesome, in general, but with that skyward facing photo and the identification of a specific leaf, so cool.
Maple trunk for the win! Absolutely beautiful!
Love the longer length episodes with you chatting away. Fantastic
Thank you for the photos Ben.
Thanks once again Ben , great video and fabulous images , so glad you got that Ponderosa pine at last
Lovely candy for the soul to start this Saturday with. Thanks again Ben for your outstanding work and state of being.
Ben, you are the poster child for perseverance for sure! I'm always so happy when you get one that you are satisfied with, but also appreciate your high standards for your art. I loved them too. I did have to chuckle a bit about the 'little leaf' and (almost) wanted to grab some glue!! "Next time".
Great way to start the weekend.
Thank you Ben
As always Ben awesome video.
That seems like a long time for the exposure. Do they need more time because it's bigger film, or is it less light sensitive?
I use a ISO 100 speed film, so the sensitivity is the exact same as any other ISO 100 film or a digital camera at ISO 100. The difference is the aperture that's required for a reasonable depth of field on 8x10. The larger the film(or sensor) the shallower the DOF at a given aperture, so I need to stop down to f/45 to get a reasonable enough DOF to get enough of the subject in focus. My lenses typically go to f/64 or even f/128 as the max aperture, but stopping down that far would lead to diffraction in the same way that stopping down all the way that it would on a digital system. F/45 is a bit of a sweet spot for depth of field while avoiding diffraction.
@@BenHorne Thank you! Appreciate the explanation, now I have to put in the effort to understand. :)
Beautiful image of the maple trunk! Inspirational and encourages me to return to some of my own favorite photo locations. Thanks for a great video.
That maple branch will have grown a lot by next year! A couple of inches of every branch perhaps.
Hey Ben! If I could trouble you for the make and model of the plate you use for your 8x10. Thanks and love your videos!