I don’t shoot film, never say never but I get a kick watching the passion you have for it. It plays havoc with my OCD seeing the railway wagon image hidden behind your monitors as it’s one of my favourite images of yours, just sayin… :)
Carvers Uncertainty Principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of an insect, such as a gnat, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the insects focus, the less we know about its speed and vice versa
How did you do in that competition you flew to Spain for? Where can we see the film that the professional video crew made when they followed you around for the day?
Commentaries are why I still buy some movies and teevee shows on physical media. I love hearing the creators and participants talk about how they made the production. Same for your videos. :)
I thought it was just me when I couldn't get my TLR to focus correctly. I usually default to shooting around f11-16 to make sure I have a spitting chance at hitting focus. I have used a tripod to help and I have added the Mamiya Paramender(great name) to the bag to help, when I remember to use it. I have the 180mm lens and have had much better luck with nailing focus. Longer distance and better parallax control. Love the gnats. The light is amazing. Back lighting a buzzing flock is not something I would have thought to try.
Great video Nick. I will never shoot with the type of gear you use, but your videos give me new ideas of what and how shoot. Also to just slow down to get the exact shot i want instead of taking a so-so shot and saying i'll try and fix it latter in Photo shop. So thanks for the help.
While it doesn't have the cultural currency of your sign... One of my favorite pics is a Philadelphia church and graveyard background to a sign proclaiming: THIS IS A SACRED PLACE Please clean up after your dog
Buddy you’re overthinking the Kenton Nelson plagiarism thing. His painting style seem to be inspired by photography itself. The way he draws out of focus highlights - you only really get those on photos. Also he works out of California. He sees his subjects in the same light as you do. Hence the similar color palette.
Thanks for your work and well explained creative thought process. I wish you the best light (as you prefer it to be or as it is made by itself best). As always, I'm looking forward to seeing your next video. Greetings from the Czech Republic!
This was great. This is my favorite UA-cam channel. Brings back a lot of things I learned at SMC when I majored in Photography in the early aughts. Those were exciting times; studying light, learning the view camera, scheimpflug! The way your channel dives into the details in composition, camera movements, light and the myriads of factors that affect it are a real joy. Think I might have to become a contributor! Side note: are you turning on ads on your channel now? There were like 10 ads throughout this video. That's fine if it's a new page, just wondering. Thanks
Another excellent video Nick. Your grasp of how light works, and how to make the best use of it, is first class. How about giving some thought to coming down under to my country, Australia. You would find lots a classic 50 - 60's nostalgia to shoot, great light and probably make a buck doing some lectures as well.
Hey Nick! Stellar Video (as usual) Can you do a video on home printing? * I know there's one * but one, which goes into much more detail would be amazing 🍀 Cheers
I am finding the colors in your photos very...?pleasing? No, that's not the right word. soulful? No, too pretentious. But you get the idea. Do you primarily use Portra? Why are you pushing it one stop? How to do you process to get the colors you want? A color processing video please. Maybe a color course?
Great thoughts on the TLR focusing I have an old Airesflex had it a while only just recently used it I found it easy enough to get focus in good light but as soon as the light went sour it was a mission and I totally fluffed focus. I looking at getting a new focus screen as the og is pretty grubby
I get what your saying about bokeh i began to dislike it the same reason. Id never thought about the shape of the bokeh relative to the shape of the apeture - fun fact 😊. Nice shots though , a nice local study of where you live
I agree that the telephone pole picture was nice. I love taking picture of them myself, the play I live have hundreds of them. I could make a zine with just 200 picture of different telephone poles all with different intricate cabling.
That's not how you say his name 😂 But good effort! Piet is pronounced like Pete and Mondriaan is with double a. But nice to see you use Dutch artists as an example 🫶 Love your vids and photography!
hi Nick, might be a bit late with this comment, on your latest video, but you and I have the same feeling about that "Bokeh" word, and I love the sound of the other word.."Blur Rendishen" so I'm actually considering using that term in the future..thanks for the video, great stuff as usuasl
Hey Nick, thank you for your videos. I just found out about you and i am liking and learning a lot with you, so thanks. I have one question please, how do i protect my work from people? means, if i post my work on Instagram or my homepage, how do i protect them from being stolen and used somewhere else without my approval? thanks a million if you take the time to answer me or anyone else. Have a good one!
I use that light when shooting in shade with reflected light in downtown. I call that the Sweet Light. Soft and directional, always beautiful for portraits.
I never understood the obsession about 'round' or 'smooth' bokeh either. I have a strong suspicion it is driven by the big companies to sell more expensive lenses (and by people buying them to justify their purchase). Also as a dutch person, the youtube pronunciation of Piet Mondriaan at 21:22 is totally wrong. The 'ie' in piet is a 'compound vowel', pronounced as 'ee' in 'deer', so its similar to 'pete'. The 'aa' in mondiaan is another compound vowel, where the pronunciation is'extended' as compared to the short english 'a' (ah!). There's no real equivalent in english. The 'oe' in Doesburg 21:40 is yet another compound vowel, I suppose very similar to 'oo' in food!
Bokeh word was replaced a long time ago by a scientific one which is Toneh. There are very notable photographers and scientists who work in the Toneh field.
Photo/Art teacher ringing in. Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian were great friends and both were avant garde artists for the De stijl movement which translated to "the style." Unfortunately there was a rift between the two because as you saw with Mondrian, he had vertical and horizontal lines. Which he thought was the defining style of the art movement. Well Doesburg believed that the diagonal lines were the correct representation of the De Stijl movement. Imagine losing a friend over lines... LOL
interesting approach, on the idea who influences the image we thinking to make consciousness or unconsciousness on the moment, and the image we make and inspired with.
One time I showed up to a site in London for a commercial shot I was doing for a new residential development. The shot was to be taken from a public park. I got up at 5am having pre-planned the best time to take the photo so that the sun was in the right place. A 2 hour trip to London, pay for parking, carry all my gear to the park and…a travelling carnival 🎪 was set up for that same evening smack bang in the middle of the park. I couldn’t even get to the position I needed to be in let alone see the development site behind a big top tent and carousel! That was definitely conspiring against me! 😂
Completely agree about the inspiration from painters. One of my favorites is Richard Mayhew. I've stared at his painting Rhapsody a hundred times. I love the color and simple landscape.
Just catching up in Nick Carver world. Man I love these films, the grass in the 2 images with baskets really got me, something I could stare at for way too long, the forest of chopped grass leaves. The gnats conjuring spring and summer. No matter what you bring the joy, and wonderful photography insights too.
Really enjoyed this image review and perhaps more so than your on location videos. I like to learn how others get inspired and evaluate/critic their own work. Like yourself I get my inspiration from painters and I enjoyed you showing painting and your photographs as a comparison. What I would like to see is how music inspires your photography as it is something I have heard said before but never saw examples.
I really love your work, I'm an amateur photographer but I turned digital quite a few years ago but I do have nostalgia for the film cameras. Anyway today I have a non-photographic question: I have been looking at your hat on so many of your videos and I would like to know what is that hat?
Love these so much! Definitely see myself battling the same hurdles of inspiration too easily becoming copying. I have lately found myself shooting stuff I'm not even interested in. Your passion and methodical approach for the craft bring me so much calm and appreciation I find myself missing in my own photography. Thank you 🫶
I really like watching your videos for your view of the light. I learn a lot from it, even though I don’t shoot film. These image reviews are really great, please keep ‘m coming!
Yes, of course I enjoy your instructional videos, including this format, to answer your question. I like the discussions about light and the factors that casue it to look a certain way that you feature here and in other past videos. We all know light makes the photo, but it helps me, anyway, to think about it a bit analytically. Why I like what I like. Cheers!
I find is a lot easier to focus my 220 after adding a Kiev 88 45-degree prism via a 3D printed adapter. It's now as easy, if not easier, than my SLR cameras. Great shots Nick!
Bokeh leaves a sour taste in my mouth too! But Circle of Confusion, while longer, is much more mysterious and mystical. Thanks for sharing your image review Nick.
I don’t use my C33 often enough to nail the focus every time and I always forget to close down at least a couple of stops vs 35mm - great shots and made me buy some Porta!
The diffused light in the 6x17 gives the image dimensionality. The fact that you don’t lose the left side of the tree to total shadow gives it a 3D effect that I think would’ve been reduced in total directional light
Boy I've got to move to California and get some of this thing called "light". It's a holiday weekend here in Edinburgh and looks like it will be solidly overcast for three days.
Love seeing you go through all the pics from your recent photo walk. I also love that Sweet James will now be immortalized in your Bus stop image. All joking aside I did really enjoy seeing how you captured it and seeing the final print!
I have been on a kick of photographing power lines, so it’s cool to see someone else digging the look. I think you said something like “simple complexity,” which is a good description of those scenes.
My favorite photos are the orange series, including the crow shot, where for me its also the oranges that make this photo stand out. interesting series to discuss your photos, and because you do not hesitate to be critical, there can be found useful and new thoughts also for us viewers and our own photography.
5:21 Do you have a permit for those guns, Nick?
I don’t shoot film, never say never but I get a kick watching the passion you have for it. It plays havoc with my OCD seeing the railway wagon image hidden behind your monitors as it’s one of my favourite images of yours, just sayin… :)
I’m guessing it’s a motorised standing desk, he had it lowered when he put up the picture 😆
Carvers Uncertainty Principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of an insect, such as a gnat, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the insects focus, the less we know about its speed and vice versa
love the philosophy woven through all of your videos, probably my favorite part: the qualitative stuff
Great point Ryan, food for the soul.
I could listen to you talk about the quality of light for hours!
Anyone else bothered by the fan blades in the top left corner and also reflected in the desk controls? 😂
That cloud of gnats photo feels unbelievably nostalgic for my childhood in Orange County
My thought on your philosophical discussion is: It's the zen of photography. Go with it.
How did you do in that competition you flew to Spain for? Where can we see the film that the professional video crew made when they followed you around for the day?
“Not going to work here anymore.” Nice Office Space reference. 😂
Commentaries are why I still buy some movies and teevee shows on physical media. I love hearing the creators and participants talk about how they made the production.
Same for your videos. :)
Remember Nick, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re (the photography gods) not out to get you. 😂
I thought it was just me when I couldn't get my TLR to focus correctly. I usually default to shooting around f11-16 to make sure I have a spitting chance at hitting focus. I have used a tripod to help and I have added the Mamiya Paramender(great name) to the bag to help, when I remember to use it. I have the 180mm lens and have had much better luck with nailing focus. Longer distance and better parallax control.
Love the gnats. The light is amazing. Back lighting a buzzing flock is not something I would have thought to try.
"reflected light from the house filling in the shadows"...Nick pulling a Ben Horne at home.
Great video Nick. I will never shoot with the type of gear you use, but your videos give me new ideas of what and how shoot. Also to just slow down to get the exact shot i want instead of taking a so-so shot and saying i'll try and fix it latter in Photo shop.
So thanks for the help.
It almost seems like you can't stand pretentious photographers at all.😄
The photo of the pole reminded me of David Lynch's Fire Walk With Me
While it doesn't have the cultural currency of your sign... One of my favorite pics is a Philadelphia church and graveyard background to a sign proclaiming:
THIS IS A SACRED PLACE Please clean up after your dog
Buddy you’re overthinking the Kenton Nelson plagiarism thing. His painting style seem to be inspired by photography itself. The way he draws out of focus highlights - you only really get those on photos. Also he works out of California. He sees his subjects in the same light as you do. Hence the similar color palette.
Your overhead fan (thingy) creates a terribly distracting bokeh and plays havoc with my OCD. Just saying.
Awesome Nick ! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences with your work. Always enjoy your content mate 😅
Very cool. Love the results and the tutorial. ....hmmm time to bring out the Rolliflex.
Thanks for your work and well explained creative thought process.
I wish you the best light (as you prefer it to be or as it is made by itself best). As always, I'm looking forward to seeing your next video.
Greetings from the Czech Republic!
Every shot I take, I’m trying to nail Edward Hopper. Still working on it. Perhaps, as a SoCal boy, you should try David Hockney?
I am sure many photographers have their work influenced/inspired by Nick Carver!
This was great. This is my favorite UA-cam channel. Brings back a lot of things I learned at SMC when I majored in Photography in the early aughts. Those were exciting times; studying light, learning the view camera, scheimpflug! The way your channel dives into the details in composition, camera movements, light and the myriads of factors that affect it are a real joy. Think I might have to become a contributor!
Side note: are you turning on ads on your channel now? There were like 10 ads throughout this video. That's fine if it's a new page, just wondering. Thanks
Another excellent video Nick. Your grasp of how light works, and how to make the best use of it, is first class. How about giving some thought to coming down under to my country, Australia. You would find lots a classic 50 - 60's nostalgia to shoot, great light and probably make a buck doing some lectures as well.
Hey Nick! Stellar Video (as usual) Can you do a video on home printing? * I know there's one * but one, which goes into much more detail would be amazing 🍀 Cheers
I am finding the colors in your photos very...?pleasing? No, that's not the right word. soulful? No, too pretentious. But you get the idea.
Do you primarily use Portra? Why are you pushing it one stop? How to do you process to get the colors you want? A color processing video please. Maybe a color course?
Great thoughts on the TLR focusing I have an old Airesflex had it a while only just recently used it I found it easy enough to get focus in good light but as soon as the light went sour it was a mission and I totally fluffed focus. I looking at getting a new focus screen as the og is pretty grubby
Nick, which service do you use for your random serial numbers? I do not find the video where you spoke about. Thx, Matthias
I get what your saying about bokeh i began to dislike it the same reason. Id never thought about the shape of the bokeh relative to the shape of the apeture - fun fact 😊. Nice shots though , a nice local study of where you live
I agree that the telephone pole picture was nice. I love taking picture of them myself, the play I live have hundreds of them. I could make a zine with just 200 picture of different telephone poles all with different intricate cabling.
That's not how you say his name 😂 But good effort! Piet is pronounced like Pete and Mondriaan is with double a. But nice to see you use Dutch artists as an example 🫶 Love your vids and photography!
hi Nick, might be a bit late with this comment, on your latest video, but you and I have the same feeling about that "Bokeh" word, and I love the sound of the other word.."Blur Rendishen" so I'm actually considering using that term in the future..thanks for the video, great stuff as usuasl
Agree Bokeh is so off message. Many agree the replacement term is Toneh (Camera Conspiracies) it really captures the wankiness of too much Bokeh 🤣
Hey Nick, thank you for your videos. I just found out about you and i am liking and learning a lot with you, so thanks. I have one question please, how do i protect my work from people? means, if i post my work on Instagram or my homepage, how do i protect them from being stolen and used somewhere else without my approval? thanks a million if you take the time to answer me or anyone else. Have a good one!
How many know what a Victrola is or a wax cylinder? I have both lol. I should photograph them.
😱 They are not? (moving clouds ⛅️) 30:10 What a blasphemy! 😅
I wouldn’t discredit yourself or your work making connections on “inspiration or imitation”. It ain’t a carbon copy by a long stretch, ya dun good.
Just love your videos. Think you are very genuine and love your thoughts around your work..
I use that light when shooting in shade with reflected light in downtown. I call that the Sweet Light. Soft and directional, always beautiful for portraits.
I never understood the obsession about 'round' or 'smooth' bokeh either. I have a strong suspicion it is driven by the big companies to sell more expensive lenses (and by people buying them to justify their purchase).
Also as a dutch person, the youtube pronunciation of Piet Mondriaan at 21:22 is totally wrong. The 'ie' in piet is a 'compound vowel', pronounced as 'ee' in 'deer', so its similar to 'pete'. The 'aa' in mondiaan is another compound vowel, where the pronunciation is'extended' as compared to the short english 'a' (ah!). There's no real equivalent in english.
The 'oe' in Doesburg 21:40 is yet another compound vowel, I suppose very similar to 'oo' in food!
Blurrition.
No you aren't talking yourself into the lighting of the photo,IMA, it is definitely better that more directional light.
I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo feeling off put by the term bokeh. I think it was the first time I heard "bokeh beast" that the word soured for me.
Bokeh word was replaced a long time ago by a scientific one which is Toneh. There are very notable photographers and scientists who work in the Toneh field.
Photo/Art teacher ringing in.
Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian were great friends and both were avant garde artists for the De stijl movement which translated to "the style." Unfortunately there was a rift between the two because as you saw with Mondrian, he had vertical and horizontal lines. Which he thought was the defining style of the art movement. Well Doesburg believed that the diagonal lines were the correct representation of the De Stijl movement. Imagine losing a friend over lines... LOL
Luckily neither went squiggly - or there could have been a murder.
It's def not pijet mondrian. You pronounce it like Peet Mondriahn
The telephone pole and wires was my favorite……👍
interesting approach, on the idea who influences the image we thinking to make consciousness or unconsciousness on the moment, and the image we make and inspired with.
One time I showed up to a site in London for a commercial shot I was doing for a new residential development. The shot was to be taken from a public park. I got up at 5am having pre-planned the best time to take the photo so that the sun was in the right place. A 2 hour trip to London, pay for parking, carry all my gear to the park and…a travelling carnival 🎪 was set up for that same evening smack bang in the middle of the park. I couldn’t even get to the position I needed to be in let alone see the development site behind a big top tent and carousel!
That was definitely conspiring against me! 😂
I wonder if Kenton is taking inspiration from William Eggleston.
Blur rendition is now a permanent part of my vocabulary.
Only photographers would notice the shapes😀
22:00 holy. shit. this cracked me up hard enough to split concrete
"I think I had too many.pictures of my dog" ... no, you didn't... your dogs cute
Completely agree about the inspiration from painters. One of my favorites is Richard Mayhew. I've stared at his painting Rhapsody a hundred times. I love the color and simple landscape.
You know you're there when you photograph a cloud of gnats and turn it into art! 😂
Master, sorry but the photo at minute 22:30 is an absolute masterpiece!
What focal length is this lens / full frame equivalent?
Please do more like this. It was fabulous. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent video. Entertaining and informative. 👏
Really enjoyed the video. Thanks
Sorry I hate, really hate, PayPal. Sorry
I always appreciate your thought process and how you explain what you like or don't about your photos.
We have bunting too 🇬🇧🙄
Gnats jumping at the chance for their picture to be taken would also make a good Far Side cartoon 😅
No ‘stache May
Piet Mondrian. I know him. He painted the Partridge Family's bus. BTW, great Office Space reference!
Very nice...
Just catching up in Nick Carver world. Man I love these films, the grass in the 2 images with baskets really got me, something I could stare at for way too long, the forest of chopped grass leaves. The gnats conjuring spring and summer. No matter what you bring the joy, and wonderful photography insights too.
Hi Nick, thanls for sharing, for the informative input, for the photography-motivation. All the best from Germany, Michael
Nobody does this better!
Really enjoyed this image review and perhaps more so than your on location videos. I like to learn how others get inspired and evaluate/critic their own work. Like yourself I get my inspiration from painters and I enjoyed you showing painting and your photographs as a comparison. What I would like to see is how music inspires your photography as it is something I have heard said before but never saw examples.
I really love your work, I'm an amateur photographer but I turned digital quite a few years ago but I do have nostalgia for the film cameras. Anyway today I have a non-photographic question: I have been looking at your hat on so many of your videos and I would like to know what is that hat?
Love these so much! Definitely see myself battling the same hurdles of inspiration too easily becoming copying. I have lately found myself shooting stuff I'm not even interested in. Your passion and methodical approach for the craft bring me so much calm and appreciation I find myself missing in my own photography. Thank you 🫶
Great video as always Nick, any chance of you cropping out the ceiling fan next time.
Bit distracting.
Loved this video (and its predecessor), the prints are beautiful!!! Hope I am a winner 😃 Thanks!
Samir Nagheenanajar
I really like watching your videos for your view of the light. I learn a lot from it, even though I don’t shoot film. These image reviews are really great, please keep ‘m coming!
Yes, of course I enjoy your instructional videos, including this format, to answer your question. I like the discussions about light and the factors that casue it to look a certain way that you feature here and in other past videos. We all know light makes the photo, but it helps me, anyway, to think about it a bit analytically. Why I like what I like. Cheers!
I find is a lot easier to focus my 220 after adding a Kiev 88 45-degree prism via a 3D printed adapter. It's now as easy, if not easier, than my SLR cameras. Great shots Nick!
Bokeh leaves a sour taste in my mouth too! But Circle of Confusion, while longer, is much more mysterious and mystical. Thanks for sharing your image review Nick.
I don’t use my C33 often enough to nail the focus every time and I always forget to close down at least a couple of stops vs 35mm - great shots and made me buy some Porta!
The diffused light in the 6x17 gives the image dimensionality. The fact that you don’t lose the left side of the tree to total shadow gives it a 3D effect that I think would’ve been reduced in total directional light
I love the greens in the backyard pictures.
Makes me think about my editing and my view on greens in general
Boy I've got to move to California and get some of this thing called "light". It's a holiday weekend here in Edinburgh and looks like it will be solidly overcast for three days.
Love seeing you go through all the pics from your recent photo walk. I also love that Sweet James will now be immortalized in your Bus stop image. All joking aside I did really enjoy seeing how you captured it and seeing the final print!
I have been on a kick of photographing power lines, so it’s cool to see someone else digging the look. I think you said something like “simple complexity,” which is a good description of those scenes.
Like? No Love! It was a fun learning experience. Please do more.
My favorite photos are the orange series, including the crow shot, where for me its also the oranges that make this photo stand out. interesting series to discuss your photos, and because you do not hesitate to be critical, there can be found useful and new thoughts also for us viewers and our own photography.
Is the flickering fan on the top left an ode to the gnats? Although didn't detract from the essence of the video - wonderful as always.
I like old movies film nori, that got me into looking for lights & shadows, which are sometimes hard to find, but when I see them I make it work!
Another great video! You are one of the most inspiring photographers on UA-cam and a real artist in my opinion.
These photo breakdowns are gold. Keep 'em coming!
Great video, thanks for sharing. I hope you do more like this soon.
His paintings look like photos, especially with the bokeh highlights.
Great lesson. The cosmos works for you sometimes...sometimes not.
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