Playing With Gear
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Peter and RaRa were in the mood to create some images using things a little outside the square, so Peter grabbed some strange things from around the studio to see what effect they would give him. In this tutorial, he uses an old mirror, a tilt shift with a super long lens, and also a 110 year old lens and you will see how unique they all look.
Model: Rhiannon
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Camera model: Leica SL2 + Hasselblad X1D ii
Lenses used: 110 year old collapsable Kodak camera, 300mm Hasselblad connected to tilt shift connected to booster, Apo-Summicron-M 1:2/90 ASPH
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That is a great way to play around with older kits and still have fun with photography. More please
Thanks yes more coming
Peter and Bec, of all the vids I really enjoyed this one. I love playing around. I love the convenience of digital but I could do so many more playing around with film.
Glad you enjoyed it!
For the love of playing with what you have, thanks Peter, Bec, and RaRa ! stay safe
Thanks heaps
Remember those softar fliters? This reminds me of that. Those over the top blurry images from the eighties 🕺thx👍
Hello there 👋👋, how are you doing today? Hope you’re having a wonderful day. God bless you!❤️❤️
Holy accordions Batman! I must try that with my old Exakta, Retina, & Contiflex cameras and a Sony body (as soon as I finish the rolls in them). Freakin' cool idea...
That's cool, awesome, perfect !!! I would love to see how one could do a tilt-shift combination like that using the Leica SL2. Thanks Peter, Bec and Ra Ra
Peter in the toy box, thinking out of the box
Loved it all shots, but the first and the last ones were my favorites, and the shot at the end. 😂😍😍😍
Thanks
Hahaha "I own all this stuff so I mise well use it" I love that quote 👍😎
😁
Absolutely love seeing how you play around with settings, props and editing retouches! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences!
Glad you like them!
That was great!!! Thanks for sharing that. I got one of those 100 yr old cameras... hmmmm nice
Hello there 👋👋, how are you doing today? Hope you’re having a wonderful day. God bless you!❤️❤️
Lovely soft images which flatter the model.
Many thanks!
Love playing with older gear, before I got into working in Television I lugged around an old Canon AE-1 set and a few lenses, nothing spectacular, but serviceable. Later wanting to experiment with medium format I bought a (and you're going to cringe) Hartblei inspected Kiev 88 and 4 lenses for only $500 CDN so with that I learned how to be patient and set up a shot rather than reacting to one, and the pictures produced were more than acceptable for what I paid for that set, and as far as I know my Brother's oldest boy who lives in Vancouver now has it, so it's getting every penny of that $500 that I bought it for in 1989/90-ish squeezed out of it!! Thanks for the play with the gear, really enjoy how you utilize that really old bellows cased lens,...might have to try that with an old Voigtlander I have upstairs in a box of things from my Dad. Cheers - Dave
Great results! Amazing idea using a very old lens! I love how you think outside the box! Beautiful model as well!
Thank you! Cheers!
"Playing and doing stupid things" is good! Something we all need to do more often. Great video Peter, thank you for all the inspiration. Hoping to be able to do stupid things for many more years and hope the same for you. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it, love doing stupid things, it's the best way to learn :)
I love to see old glass being pressed into service again. Maybe I’m overly nostalgic but I like to imagine all the faces and the poignant moments those old lenses witnessed. Thanks for this Peter. Really enjoyed this one.
Thanks so much, glad you liked this one
I amazed how good those pics turned out with that 110 year old lens. 😲
Love this stuff!! Experimentation ❤ is so fun in photography
Totally agree!
Gorgeous portrait through the mirror
Thanks
Oh ! I have to get out my tilt-shift lense. I never considered using it this way for portraits before. The novice photographer appreciates your suggestion! ;-)
Glad it was helpful!
At first I thought Bec was just exaggerating until you brought it out. Awesome play.
I bought a Canon T/S a few years ago that I love pulling out for portrait shoots.
And I am loving the flavour that old glass gives a photo session.
Not so stupid then, you really bring out her beautiful eyes with such detail, even in the soft photos
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Very nice! I love my old Takumar lenses. The dehaze slider helps a lot for me.
Old lenses are the best
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer so much more character than the ultra sharp lenses of today.
So much fun 😁
Great video and experimentation (or playing around) with the different pieces of gear and mirror.
Thank you!
"I own all this stuff so I might as well use it" Brilliant! Really good video. I really like the use of radial filters to get the background blacks etc correct - such a good tip
Thanks so much
so expressive!!
Amazing and always teaching Peter. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Love the old lens. Amazing 🤗 ❤️ 💜
Me too!!
Loved that. Something different. ❤
Glad you liked it!!
Love it when you start playing around
Thanks
That was a fun and interesting video. Nice to see you so engaged. Tilt/shift gives a great look to your shots. 👏🏻
Thanks so much! 😊
Awesome tips working older equipment and editing in software. Love to see more also.
Thanks! Will do!
I really love the art/photo's and the creativity. I'm amazed by the effects and how cool it becomes.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you Peter
What a refreshing video showing so nice portrait pictures with a lot of fine details and soft contrast that gives a huge amount of grey shades against today's youtubers only searching for the most clinical lens rendering adding in post contrast, clarity, saturation, accentuation...
Glad you enjoyed it
wow!!! Peter! I loved this photo shoot, one of the best I've seen you do. Very natural and realistic, and I love that the natural background of the studio is used instead of the traditional ones. White or black backgrounds. When I grow up, I want to be like you! 😉 it's a joke. greetings from Spain.
Thanks heaps
Love old lenses, I have about 100. I think you would like a few of them, if your ever over the west of Melbourne your welcome to drop in & have a play. Im going to try the old folding Kodak I have & see if it will work as well for me. Love to see more like this one.
Cool, thanks
I’m sure RaRa liked these photos; I found them really beautiful. Inventive use of gear. The old camera reminded me of one my dad owned. Don’t know what happened to it. The mirror shots were great, as were the tilt-shift. Thanks all!
Thanks Edward
Very interesting.
Reading the positive comments people are really interested in this kind of videos, maybe you can do it more often.
Since I am on the exact oposite side of the world your videos are always a nice morning treat.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks heaps more coming soon
Awesome tutorial.
Thank you! Cheers!
Looks like a lot of fun. I always wanted to try the old white or black stocking over the lens. Maybe I did try it and I've just forgotten. If you could show other "tricks" photographers used, that would be great.
Thanks yes more coming
Lovely use of the old uncoated lens. They do have a magic of tehir own. I have a few of these old folding cameras, the oldest is a 6.5X9 Voigtlander Avus with an uncoated Skopar lens. I think the camera is from 1929 or 1930. It is capable of producing outsatnding images full of character with the modern 120 film. I also loved the mirror idea, probably because I have used that trick in the past myself.
Thanks for helping me be a better photographer!
Happy to help!
One of the things I love about shooting my Canon R5 is being able to display the histogram in the viewfinder. It does display over/under exposure warnings but I don't find them accurate. Wonderful content!
Thank you David
That was a nice experimentation ! I do also like doing crazy experiments but you are a very crazy productive one LOL. I love the results of old analog images coming out of an old Agfa Record III 6x9 I have, specially when I use the 35mm film adapters, the image goes across the whole film including the sprocket holes, so the results are a long pano images, Thank you Peter for keeping the analog spirit going and as we all know is coming back very strong.
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome video. Thatnks for sharing. Got some ideas to try next time I'm in the studio.
Stay healthy and warm. It's bloody -36C in Bashkiria this morning.
And Happy New Year to you Peter and Bec
As an inveterate tinkerer myself, this is great fun to watch.
Thank you
Cleaning my cameras. And in my hand while watching this is a AGFA ANSCO No 1 ready set Royal. Never thought about doing that.
I use old lenses on my Sony’s but this will be fun. Now not to get side tracked on my cleaning. Great video.
Glad I could help
Fun to see how you used the tilt photographing a model. Something I have not done in a long time (though I still have a couple of 4x5 view cameras that I should brush the dust off of). And the older camera looks like an old Kodak Brownie or Ansco 1A? Thanks for sharing your creative usage of these tools.
Thanks for watching, I'm not too sure what it is, it just says Kodak Automatic and it's from 1910 :)
intereting set ups!! especially the tilt shift lens. i try to use my lens baby on a canon 30v film camera. with f4 the dof is so thin, i can hardly focus it. also attaching an old olympus om zuiko 55/1.2 to the sl2s can yield pure magic at times.
Love this
Thank you
Lovely
Brilliant! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
I love the video I like to use mirrors to in my weddings shots I found that thay make some cool looking shots thanks Paul. 😊
Glad you like them!
"…there's a big fault on this at the moment…" - …turns it into B&W... - Peter, you made my day 😄🙌 (9:56).
Thanks
Fun! I thought that looked like the angelfish 320. Waiting for it to arrive. Purchased based upon Bec's favor.👍
Awesome, hope you like it :)
A 300mm Lensbaby on a Hasselblad, who would'a thunk it? Great effects. You've inspired me to try the double-camera combo with a bunch of old cameras, but I really want a sensor attachment for my M3 and Canon A and F series bodies.
Very nice Peter
Thank you
Btw, I worked on a movie a few years back and the Cinematographer used vintage lenses on modern film cameras to give the film that vintage appearance. And, most of the lenses were over a 100 years old.
Nice work thank you for the tips good day
Thank you too
Amazing work! That's some pro stuff right there. Speaking of silly things, if Bec would show up in your background at the mirror, should we call it a Becground? 🧐🤔😂
Thanks lols 😁
很專業的攝影師、很專業且美麗的模特兒、謝謝分享😊
非常感謝
Ridiculously good
Thank you
Neat. Have you run any film through that old folder? My oldest functional camera is a Lubitel 2 TLR from about 1965, and it's one of my favourites.
Fantastic Peter ! there’s a lot to be said for older lenses in the right moment. I’d also agree with the comment about blown out highlight warnings in viewfinder, a no brainer for manufacturers really. Maybe the big 3 should do a firmware update on their cameras 📷 ☝️🤞
Thanks, yes they should update to 2023
pretty cool and looks like a lot of fun. i presume you put the Kodak camera on T for the lens and then also removed the lens from your Leica, using the in camera shutter?
ive seen some weird effects with at TS lens. makes things look like models or toys
Thanks Peter, I hope #Canon, #Nikon and #Hasselblad are LISTENING to that at 8:40 and gonna update all of their ML cameras asap.
Thanks I hope so
Nice Ideas😃 really like your channel!
Awesome! Thank you!
for amateurs like me - who would see this picture where you used tilt-shift - i would think its just fake and you post-processed blur in the editor afterwards. I know its all about knowing/having experience. What i try to say is - its not "natural" to dummies to see tilted sharpness/blur and its great to see mirrorless to pick up on the sharpness like you showed in video (old DLSR guy here) so thank you!!!
Thanks
couple of thoughts on increasing the contrast the analog way.
with that first press camera you can pull the lens off the lensboard slap it on a copal to m42 adapter and then m42 bellows to digital body. I did this with an old burke @ james and a series of extension tubes. Pair that with a lens hood you hold over the lens and it should improve the contrast a bit. It's a bit of a cludge but works well. If that's to rube goldberg put a bit of black tape over the shiny bits of the camera's lens mount.
The easiest way to improve the contrast without purchasing additional kit would be to adjust your lighting. Put the black backing on your lantern softbox and don't shoot it with white seamless. I shoot with a few uncoated lens and quite a bit of single coated lenses. When shooting pre war lenses you have to tailor the light to the maximize the lenses strengths and minimize their weaknesses.
hope this helped or sparked a creative idea
Thanks heaps
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographerno problem. i had a pre war leica hektor that gave me fits till i covered the back of the lantern and threw a rug on my floor. love your content btw
Are you using Godox lantern softbox? Thinking of buying one after seeing this video. Great work as always by the way. Dont know if you notices but am a follower. Kind regards to wonderuful Beck and this beautiful model.
Great
You the Master
Thank you
peter that is awesome I have the same camera Ill have to try that thats so coool
Thanks it's fun, try it
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer i did its awesome thanks again
Well, I know what I’m doing next!
At about 6:10 you used the black point to lessen the "milky" effect of the mirror. Would using the "dehaze" filter have done the same thing, or is there a reason to use black point instead of dehaze. Also thank you for this; it looks so fun, and I will definitely be trying the mirror idea in my studio soon!
Thanks so much Shane, glad you enjoyed this and it inspired you. Dehaze will do a similar thing but tends to add a non linear contrast where as black point gives you a linear contrast. Black point also gives you the ability to move the mid point after you've set your black point which dehaze wont allow you to do
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer Makes sense...thanks for the response!
Did you put a small extension tube on before putting the camera in the back of the old camera to stop light leaking in ?
No I could of but I like the light leaking look
@@PeterCoulsonPhotographer great look!😍
“Connected to a tilt shift”; so that’s not an all in one tilt lens, it’s just a connection bracket that lets you tilt the lens? Do you have a specific link? I don’t suppose there’s a way to do that with a full frame Sony lens? Thanks !
Yes if you can find some adaptors, www.hasselblad.com/h-system/accessories/hts-15-tilt-and-shift-adapter/
I don't know if this will help. Search for Horseman TS Pro.
Ebay has adaptors to connect a standard SLR lens of your choice to the mirrorless body of your choice with either tilt or shift function.
@@Miketz Fascinating. Yes. I am of course used to the adapters to take DSLR lenses to mirrorless camera bodies. It makes sense for there to be adapters that shift.
That was stupid. I enjoyed it.
Have you tried a black mist or white mist filter? If so, what is your opinion on them?
I have never tried either of them
Love y'all's work. But who's the dog?
Thanks that was Bec's mums dog I was babysitting
If you get a chance, try Canon EOS 135mm 2.8 soft focus lens from 1980s time frame, I have one i can bring with Canon body if I get to attend workshop. it has sharp setting, two soft focus settings slow auto focus,
Thanks yes I used to own one, great lens
Is that a little p&s to he left or a monitor?
Its a Sony RX to film the model from the same angle I'm shooting at
Who does the 4th member of the cast (dog) belong to?
Bec's mum
Many thanks for this new backstage session.
@Bec: there’s nobody better than you capturing an artist, when he is creating art. Your mother’s dog is so cute.
@RaRa: I admire how patient you are when you are posing for a photographer. I always wonder what is in your head that makes you to adopt such a serene attitude. Have you ever try posing for a painter?
@Peter: RaRa’s is camera/lenses proof, all combinations of them will work with such a Model. BTW1: I have a big mirror with a vintage golden frame that I can’t wait to use it; I also have, with the same kind of frame, a painting that I plan to replace by a mirror. BTW2: I think I am going to change my current strategy with colors (that is not working at this moment) and start experimenting with yellowed and bone white tones.
Nice pictures, but an average person taking pictures could not achieve that look without the expensive software. Luckily, we are in the digital age and can do that. If you had an old SLR with 35 mm film, how would you achieve that look. The average person with a digital camera and no software would have to adjust the camera settings, the lighting and take several shots to get something similar. It seems that all the magic is in that software. Don't get me wrong, Love the shoots and learn allot from them. Just don't have the software to manipulate the photos. Keep the shoots going. Thanks
Thanks so much. The software I was using for the first two set ups is Lightroom, which is $14 per month, it's not expensive :)
I don't know why but Bec seems to me a wild girl - A Very Very Naughty & Wild Wild girl - Who can do a lot of little dirtyy but really different stuff that other girls won't even know to do 💕😘😘😘
FIRST!!!
Nope!
Inspiring! PS. It’s a shame you have to put up a warning. 😒
Thank you but yes unfortunately there are some disgusting people who say disgusting things about the models :(
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