Your honesty in this video is refreshing, a lot of whst is seen here on UA-cam is about the ego of the vlogger. Your admittance of failed shots means use mere mortals with a less than five percent sucess rate have a hope. Well done Steve, you encourage and inspire.
Watched this restful video early on a Sunday morning, while enjoying my coffee. Learned much about how film choice affects final images. Thank you for the time and effort you put in. Your global audience appreciates the work you do!
Again, thank you for inspiring video Steve! Im a big fan of Black and white, as I think it brings more curiosity and imagination from the viewer. The lack of colors make one look at the images more and search for hidden gems. But I really do enjoy your color work very mush as well.
Thanks Steve, Another good production. One thing that I have certainly learned since moving to the UK is that while winter is often gray dreary and cold that these more northern latitudes afford a lovely yellow light due to the low sun angle in winter. This can also deliver dramatic long shadows as well. Some compensation for the short days is the yellow gold light that can warm a scene without waiting for golden hour.
Love learning from your videos and photos. Moved to herefordshire recently from london and not used to landscape work. You are my new main inspiration for landscape. The way you communicate and how you explain stuff is plain and simple. Love how you use two films and compare them. Absolutely delighted to have discovered you Steve
I love your discussion of different films and what they do and why you pick each. Your photography knowledge blows me away! I am a color addict so I suppose those are my favorite but yours are all wonderful. Thanks for your hard work.
2nd time watching now (and will likely watch again in the future) because of the information and the always excellent content. Thank you for your hard work, and I look forward to more videos on film usage (and 30 reasons why you like film - no insomnia here!) Old film man myself, many great hours in the darkroom as well - miss that!
great job. at the end i was really hoping for a long exposure in the dark with all those lights below. im always a sucker for light trails. my favorite was carhead rocks, the way those hills flow just makes everything alright.
Interesting. Wouldn't have thought of Velvia to pull reluctant colour from these grey winter days. All my colour went into the freezer once the leaves had dropped! Perhaps I'll pull a roll out & see what I can do with it. For me though - the HP5 shots were lovely. If capturing the mood of being up on a hill on a grey day is what you were after - you succeeded. Have a good week!
I must admit I have been following this sequence of Vlogs pretty closely whilst thinking about going back into film photography. It has been a real benefit of having the Vlog images on Flickr as you can get a real feel for the actual quality of the final result compared to the lacklustre standard via UA-cam. I think I might make, or would make some different choices at times, but that is just creative freedom and is to be encouraged. Overall I have a gained a lot from this series, which I have enjoyed very much. Thank you.
Good vlog Steve. The Peak District is a venue I dont venture into much when I'm in Blighty. Might give it a go next week. Love the Hope Valley shot. Cheers, Diz
I loved the BnWs Steve! Went up to Corn Du and Pen y Fan all day yesterday for sunrise until mid afternoon. Shot a roll of Delta 100 and Ektar so looking forward to seeing them! It was a beautiful day yesterday and very snowy!!!
Another enjoyable video with more of your fantastic film work. For some reason I have decided that the image at 9:01 is my favorite of all. Thanks for sharing.
A great insight for people like myself who are not aware of the film types that work in different scenarios. There is a film guy who posts images on FB I see and it came to mind watching this that he must use the same film on every shoot - well, on the ones he posts to FB. The colour palette looks to be velvia. Interesting to see how you observe a scene and decide what will work and what won't. As ever your images are always good to see and from a location perspective I can see I missed lots of locations that were close to me when I visited the PD last year. TFS.
When hunger wins, Steven vacillates between landscape and food photography (your cafe table top shot:) Just joking;. As always you do superb videography and the HP5 images are quite good. Watching your stuff, I am always thinking what I would do in that environment in terms of composition, but then again, all the content leads towards your point of view:)
Like many others here, I found the HP5 images the most satisfying, not to say surprising. And I now know what a rank beginner I am, as a landscapist: I would have spent hours on that tree!
I do remember using TRI-X 400 back in the day...put it in the tin cans, add chemical rinse, dry, then to the enlarger, then more chemicals, and dry...If I remember right I could shoot some shots...and have the print in less than 30 minutes...
I must start shooting with some e6 films, though I often seek out more subtle colours using a Portra 160. Even though I'm using TMax 400 for my analogue 365, HP5+ is my go to B&W film. You got some great shots there, and as I said on your last video when you are out with the Bronica are my favourite videos. Another brilliant video Steve, your production is getting better and better all the time.
Thanks Mark. I generally prefer working with C41 colour over E6 but in Winter especially the latter can really lift the mood. I still favour B&W overall but it can be very limiting for dawn shoots which is my favourite time of day to be out.
Steve O'Nions At 35mm I really only ever shoot B&W except for the very occasional roll of Ektar on my Olympus. So very occasional I think it will all be out of date now but it’s kept at the back of the fridge.
Thanks for another great peaks vlog, I’m normally shooting the peaks most weekends mainly on LF & MF so it’s good to see another film shooter here, I definitely need to shoot more colours looking at this though.
Steve O'Nions I’m always shooting Fp4 with Lc29 or recently Ilfotec HC dev B, few examples on here, www.flickr.com/photos/55153529@N00/, even though I’m longing for velvia after this last vlog.
I like your images Adrian and FP4 in LC29 is a good combination. I also like it in ID11 but I admit to using HC110 a lot these days due to the economy and keeping properties.
Hi Steve. Thank you for the lovely video. I have to agree with the other commenters here - the HP5+ shots seemed to capture the mood best. I was wondering why you prefer HP5+ over something like Kodak Tri-X? I'll be honest, I haven't shot much Ilford film so I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Thank you in advance!
Hi Wesley. I’ll be honest that I have never shot a roll of Tri-X but have used Plenty of Tmax400. I usually favour Ilford films because I worked at their HQ for a couple of years and feel a certain loyalty to them. I love the look of HP5+ when scanned but liked Tmax 400 in the darkroom.
@@SteveONions Thanks for the reply. I can certainly understand your loyalty. In South Africa, Tri-X is about a pound cheaper per roll, so it makes the decision a bit easier!
Hi Steve! Nice vidéo, nice work. I really enjoy watching your vidéos, I don't understand all sometimes, but, doesn't matter... I saw a lot of your vidéos, and, you seem to like the Ilford HP5 +, I like it too. But, I never saw you use te main competitor of the HP5+, and maybe the most popular film in the world, the Kodak Tri-X... What do you think about it? And, why you didn't use it? Greeting from France. (sorry for the mistakes)
I honestly have never shot a roll of Tri-X which even surprises me. I suppose it was always the easy availability of Ilford materials in the days before the internet and then in 1990 I started work for Ilford so I developed a brand loyalty. I have used a fair bit of Tmax 400 though.
Steve, how do modern films compare to films from the height of the film era. I think I've heard you mention that you have some old films in the freezer (I assume they are no longer available). Are the variety of films today still easily obtainable for film photography? I would assume the quality today is better just because of technological advances but I wondered with the limited market if film varieties are drying up.
Hi Philip. I don’t shoot any discontinued films but there are still a few which are produced in the same way they were perhaps 50 years ago. These are from the likes of Foma and typically they are a bit grainier and less sharp than modern films. The latest film types such as Ilford Delta and Kodak Tmax have a different silver halide crystal structure which makes them somewhat sharper but also less flexible in development compared to older films.
I always use the mirror lock up so I’m not sure how it would compare without. I have to say that I cannot recall any unsharp images when using the Bronica with the mirror up, the shutter itself is almost silent.
Hope COVID-19 wil left the world soon, so i can have holiday somewhere in the UK. After al these great info, maybe you have some great tips for kodak BW400CN film, expired 13 years ago. I got a box of 5 rols for free, hopefully i can bring it to a good end. Thanks.
Hi Jeroen, I hope you can make it over here next year when restrictions are lifted. I have a video soon on XP2 Super which behaves much like BW400CN, depending on how yours has been stored I'd expose it at EI 200 and develop normally, I bet it comes out just fine.
@@SteveONions now it is stored in my fridge, cool and dark. How the previous owner of these films stored the, i don’t know. Tomorrow is see the results of rol 1.
Your honesty in this video is refreshing, a lot of whst is seen here on UA-cam is about the ego of the vlogger. Your admittance of failed shots means use mere mortals with a less than five percent sucess rate have a hope. Well done Steve, you encourage and inspire.
I fail a lot John, of all the trips I make each year there’s a handful at most where I’m genuinely pleased with the results.
Watched this restful video early on a Sunday morning, while enjoying my coffee. Learned much about how film choice affects final images. Thank you for the time and effort you put in. Your global audience appreciates the work you do!
Thanks Shaun.
The black and white shots are lovely. You were quite lucky with the moody clouds. That must have been a very satisfying day.
Thanks Richard, the light was perfect.
Again, thank you for inspiring video Steve! Im a big fan of Black and white, as I think it brings more curiosity and imagination from the viewer. The lack of colors make one look at the images more and search for hidden gems. But I really do enjoy your color work very mush as well.
Thanks Eirik.
Thanks Steve, Another good production. One thing that I have certainly learned since moving to the UK is that while winter is often gray dreary and cold that these more northern latitudes afford a lovely yellow light due to the low sun angle in winter. This can also deliver dramatic long shadows as well. Some compensation for the short days is the yellow gold light that can warm a scene without waiting for golden hour.
We do get excellent light all day (cloud willing) at this time of year so there’s no need to pack up or start shooting infrared instead.
Love learning from your videos and photos. Moved to herefordshire recently from london and not used to landscape work. You are my new main inspiration for landscape. The way you communicate and how you explain stuff is plain and simple. Love how you use two films and compare them. Absolutely delighted to have discovered you Steve
Thanks for the kind words Richard and I hope you manage to get out and shoot more of the landscape in 2019.
Lovely atmospheric locations Steve and some nice pictures. I love the Hope Valley photo with the cement factory dead centre. 👍
Thanks Andy, that factory always looks good.
I love your discussion of different films and what they do and why you pick each. Your photography knowledge blows me away! I am a color addict so I suppose those are my favorite but yours are all wonderful. Thanks for your hard work.
Thanks Janet, I’m glad you like the images.
Another excellent and very informative video Steve.
No matter what the conditions, you always come back with the shots. Truly inspirational!
Thanks Stephen, I think the pressure of making an interesting vlog spurs me on at times!
2nd time watching now (and will likely watch again in the future) because of the information and the always excellent content. Thank you for your hard work, and I look forward to more videos on film usage (and 30 reasons why you like film - no insomnia here!) Old film man myself, many great hours in the darkroom as well - miss that!
Thanks Robert and expect some darkroom content later this year too.
As always, my lack of knowledge in the area of film photography didn't stop me enjoying this video and the photographs. :-)
Thanks Julian, you’ll be glad to know it’s digital capture next time out.
@@SteveONions Digitla or analgoue, it's always a good watch :-)
great job. at the end i was really hoping for a long exposure in the dark with all those lights below. im always a sucker for light trails. my favorite was carhead rocks, the way those hills flow just makes everything alright.
Thanks Chris, I’m not really a fan of light trails if I’m honest (or long exposures in general).
Great to see the colour v mono comparisons...HP5 is, by far, my favourite. Great video, Steve.
HP5+ for me too Tom.
Interesting. Wouldn't have thought of Velvia to pull reluctant colour from these grey winter days. All my colour went into the freezer once the leaves had dropped! Perhaps I'll pull a roll out & see what I can do with it. For me though - the HP5 shots were lovely. If capturing the mood of being up on a hill on a grey day is what you were after - you succeeded. Have a good week!
I also prefer the HP5+ images but Velvia does work wonders on dull mornings.
I must admit I have been following this sequence of Vlogs pretty closely whilst thinking about going back into film photography. It has been a real benefit of having the Vlog images on Flickr as you can get a real feel for the actual quality of the final result compared to the lacklustre standard via UA-cam. I think I might make, or would make some different choices at times, but that is just creative freedom and is to be encouraged. Overall I have a gained a lot from this series, which I have enjoyed very much. Thank you.
Thank you 🙂
Good vlog Steve. The Peak District is a venue I dont venture into much when I'm in Blighty. Might give it a go next week. Love the Hope Valley shot. Cheers, Diz
Thanks Diz, I hope you have a good trip.
One of my favorite channels Steve, I really enjoyed this video. You work so hard to achieve great results...
Thanks Alan, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I loved the BnWs Steve! Went up to Corn Du and Pen y Fan all day yesterday for sunrise until mid afternoon. Shot a roll of Delta 100 and Ektar so looking forward to seeing them! It was a beautiful day yesterday and very snowy!!!
Thanks James, I hope your Delta shots come out well, a lovey film.
Great video Steve especially seeing the different looks with the film stocks you used.
Thanks Adrian.
Very enjoyable video Steve. The black and white shots are my favourites, beautiful.
Thanks Guy, I also prefer the mono shots.
Great video and images Steve. I really enjoyed watching this and it's made me want to revisit some of my images from the day.
Thanks Robin, It was a better day than I realised at the time.
Really enjoying the videos! Getting prepped for my trip to Oregon state this summer. Thanks for all the tips and guidance!
You’re welcome 🙂
Enjoyed the video. I really appreciated your discussion of the characteristics of the various films!! That was very useful.
Cheer Erich.
Another good one Steve.
Another enjoyable video with more of your fantastic film work. For some reason I have decided that the image at 9:01 is my favorite of all. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks again Tony.
A great insight for people like myself who are not aware of the film types that work in different scenarios. There is a film guy who posts images on FB I see and it came to mind watching this that he must use the same film on every shoot - well, on the ones he posts to FB. The colour palette looks to be velvia. Interesting to see how you observe a scene and decide what will work and what won't. As ever your images are always good to see and from a location perspective I can see I missed lots of locations that were close to me when I visited the PD last year. TFS.
Thanks Alan. There is a lot to be said for working with one particular film (or digital camera) but I don’t have the patience for that 🙂
Steve absolutely love ❤️ your videos
Thanks Rick.
Amazing photos Steve! Really loved the HP5+ photos and the Provia ones. I would like to see a darkroom print of some of those BnW photos!
I may get round to printing one or two this year James.
Nice Steve ! Best regards.
Thanks Lars.
Very nice video, one of your best. I really liked all choices of film, although I'm a sucker for HP5, the ones with the E6 film looked great. Cheers!
Thanks Eduardo.
When hunger wins, Steven vacillates between landscape and food photography (your cafe table top shot:) Just joking;. As always you do superb videography and the HP5 images are quite good. Watching your stuff, I am always thinking what I would do in that environment in terms of composition, but then again, all the content leads towards your point of view:)
Thanks Gene, perhaps I should shoot the food in mono too? 🙂
@@SteveONions :) Why not, Just make sure you develop them in that poisonous pyro for delicate highlights!
Like many others here, I found the HP5 images the most satisfying, not to say surprising. And I now know what a rank beginner I am, as a landscapist: I would have spent hours on that tree!
The HP5+ images are the better ones, no doubt at all. They captured something of the place that colour could not on this particular occasion.
Another entertaining and informative video Steve
Thanks Richard.
I do remember using TRI-X 400 back in the day...put it in the tin cans, add chemical rinse, dry, then to the enlarger, then more chemicals, and dry...If I remember right I could shoot some shots...and have the print in less than 30 minutes...
I also found it very quick and easy to make prints in the darkroom but sadly I ended up with intolerance to the chemicals and had to give up.
Thank you! It is pleasant to watch your work.
Thank you.
so far so good!
I must start shooting with some e6 films, though I often seek out more subtle colours using a Portra 160. Even though I'm using TMax 400 for my analogue 365, HP5+ is my go to B&W film.
You got some great shots there, and as I said on your last video when you are out with the Bronica are my favourite videos.
Another brilliant video Steve, your production is getting better and better all the time.
Thanks Mark. I generally prefer working with C41 colour over E6 but in Winter especially the latter can really lift the mood. I still favour B&W overall but it can be very limiting for dawn shoots which is my favourite time of day to be out.
Steve O'Nions At 35mm I really only ever shoot B&W except for the very occasional roll of Ektar on my Olympus. So very occasional I think it will all be out of date now but it’s kept at the back of the fridge.
I do think 35mm excels in B&W, not so good for colour landscape work.
Lovely!!
Thanks for another great peaks vlog, I’m normally shooting the peaks most weekends mainly on LF & MF so it’s good to see another film shooter here, I definitely need to shoot more colours looking at this though.
Thanks Adrian. BTW, what is your usual film and developer combination?
Steve O'Nions I’m always shooting Fp4 with Lc29 or recently Ilfotec HC dev B, few examples on here, www.flickr.com/photos/55153529@N00/, even though I’m longing for velvia after this last vlog.
I like your images Adrian and FP4 in LC29 is a good combination. I also like it in ID11 but I admit to using HC110 a lot these days due to the economy and keeping properties.
Красиво!
Hi Steve. Thank you for the lovely video. I have to agree with the other commenters here - the HP5+ shots seemed to capture the mood best. I was wondering why you prefer HP5+ over something like Kodak Tri-X? I'll be honest, I haven't shot much Ilford film so I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Thank you in advance!
Hi Wesley. I’ll be honest that I have never shot a roll of Tri-X but have used Plenty of Tmax400. I usually favour Ilford films because I worked at their HQ for a couple of years and feel a certain loyalty to them. I love the look of HP5+ when scanned but liked Tmax 400 in the darkroom.
@@SteveONions Thanks for the reply. I can certainly understand your loyalty. In South Africa, Tri-X is about a pound cheaper per roll, so it makes the decision a bit easier!
Hi Steve! Nice vidéo, nice work. I really enjoy watching your vidéos, I don't understand all sometimes, but, doesn't matter... I saw a lot of your vidéos, and, you seem to like the Ilford HP5 +, I like it too. But, I never saw you use te main competitor of the HP5+, and maybe the most popular film in the world, the Kodak Tri-X... What do you think about it? And, why you didn't use it?
Greeting from France.
(sorry for the mistakes)
I honestly have never shot a roll of Tri-X which even surprises me. I suppose it was always the easy availability of Ilford materials in the days before the internet and then in 1990 I started work for Ilford so I developed a brand loyalty. I have used a fair bit of Tmax 400 though.
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Steve, how do modern films compare to films from the height of the film era. I think I've heard you mention that you have some old films in the freezer (I assume they are no longer available). Are the variety of films today still easily obtainable for film photography? I would assume the quality today is better just because of technological advances but I wondered with the limited market if film varieties are drying up.
Hi Philip. I don’t shoot any discontinued films but there are still a few which are produced in the same way they were perhaps 50 years ago. These are from the likes of Foma and typically they are a bit grainier and less sharp than modern films. The latest film types such as Ilford Delta and Kodak Tmax have a different silver halide crystal structure which makes them somewhat sharper but also less flexible in development compared to older films.
That tree by Owler Tor has split in two now. I photographed it a couple of days ago.
Blimey, I should have got a shot of it while it was still intact!
I kept thinking the music towards the beginning was going to be ABBA's Dancing Queen.
Haha - yes 😀
Beautiful shots, Steve! Do you find the mirror lock up useful for landscape photography? Sadly my SQ doesn't have this option.
I always use the mirror lock up so I’m not sure how it would compare without. I have to say that I cannot recall any unsharp images when using the Bronica with the mirror up, the shutter itself is almost silent.
Coming from Australia that kind of light is far from uninspiring what i would give for a cloud or two.
We get plenty of clouds in the UK 🙂
Hope COVID-19 wil left the world soon, so i can have holiday somewhere in the UK. After al these great info, maybe you have some great tips for kodak BW400CN film, expired 13 years ago. I got a box of 5 rols for free, hopefully i can bring it to a good end. Thanks.
Hi Jeroen, I hope you can make it over here next year when restrictions are lifted. I have a video soon on XP2 Super which behaves much like BW400CN, depending on how yours has been stored I'd expose it at EI 200 and develop normally, I bet it comes out just fine.
@@SteveONions now it is stored in my fridge, cool and dark. How the previous owner of these films stored the, i don’t know. Tomorrow is see the results of rol 1.