Simple Steps to take Better Film Photos

Stephen Shore is my fav

Any recommendations on books

The A1 rocks.

Grateful for your videos they helped me learn to develop thank you thank you

I find movies, especially if they are shot on film, to be hugely inspiring. Cinematography and Photography have a lot in common.

Great tips!!!! I’m going to start to shoot film and I didn’t know what to shoot. Thank you very much!!! When you shoot a scene, not a portrait, do you meter for the shadows or the high lights?

I will have to disagree with your point about the lens here. I recently got a roll of 35mm Portra scanned, and the different lens I used to take that one roll of film produce completely different color. The sharpness, color rendition, contrast...etc ( I use Canon F1 along with 3 lenses. 55mm f1.2, 35-105mm f3.5 and 24-35mm f3.5 Asph. FYI. )

With photography basically I have no idea what I am doing which means I'm just slowly expanding a library of really "bad" pictures. I call it the "I don't know yet technique".

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Try to modulate a little bit more your voice, if not the video gets boring :(

Well made and informative video. Good advise too. Thank you.

Digitial...the camera matters (more like lense).... for film the camera and lenses doesn't matter much...that is sooooo true well said :D

I put this video on 4k and my computer just fucking died Lol, amazing video anyways

I treat my mobile camera like a film camera I don't take many shots usually just one or two it has made me think about my shots even on a device that can shoot 24 in a second instead over hours

Phone light meter app name ?

ugh. I felt like this video was so short 😭 your videos are produced so well, you do a great job. Thanks!

Here something simpler to do:




Just take better pictures.

any other options for photographers to upload pictures to a community? i only know flickr :D any other ideas? doesnt have to be big though

yo, im wondering, whats your job? is it just photography?, cus im thining of become a photographer cus its so fun, but idk if i can really have it as a job

Shoutout to Chad & JT in that fabulous art cameo!

How did you achieve the round light ? Where Can we purchase it ?

very insightful. its good to see more photos on a photography based video.

Where can I buy the first photo book you showed? I believe its called arcadia but I cant find it anywhere

Thank you

damn your friends photo is the cover art for velvet light by jakob

Thank you so much for your content, Willem!

Do you still develop your own film?

If you have a lot of skill you can use any camera and get away with it. But if you have a bad camera like a jam camera that came out 99 and it only has three megapixels my point is you need a decent camera that's my point you don't need the best camera but you need something that's good a lot of these film cameras make things look from the 1980s. I'm saying that if I were to take a film camera and take photos of today's age 2022 it would make everything look like the '80s and 90s and I don't know like that. I just use Nikon lenses and camera. Nikon's always been great they've always had the best lenses that I could buy and I love Nikon. But I'm a professional photographer. I know what shallowed up the field is I know what leading lines are I know what different angles and different shots things like that. I I own 12 lenses for my cameras and I have three DSLR cameras. Actually a Glass lens would be more quality than a plastic I always thought that if you could buy an expensive lens the photos would be better just from my experience.

What app do you use for light meter ?

How do you get those eerie, creamy pastel looking colours in your photos? In use 35mm portra400 etc and never get those sorts of colours..

Generally speaking -

First step - Never underexpose negative film.
Second step - Never overexpose transparency film.

It is sometimes Ok to underexpose transparency film slightly - about 1/3 of a stop.
And it is generally Ok to overexpose negative film slightly - but not more than 1/3 of a stop.
But whatever you do, don't overexpose transparency film.

Craig xen 💀

Great content, keep up the enthusiastic work

Nice video. I do think lenses can play a big part in the look of your images

Sweet I have the same 4x5. About to start using it again after 10’years in retirement. Where do you get your large mega developed?

Whether film or digital, I think Instagram CAN be a good source for inspiration, but the problem is that everyone tries to imitate everyone else (or copy everyone else) and that's the real problem. It can be a good tool for example to scope out new locations for a landscape trip for example, or maybe a model shoot, but then people should find their own compositions using what they do find on IG, create their own style or perspectives from inspiration from IG, so I thin it can be used, if you aren't just trying to copy people and that's all you do. It's fine to reproduce an image (do the same shot say of a particular landmark) but then try to do your own interpretations and perspectives of the same subject as well.

this was. great

straight to the point! great video

I want to print logo and images on 35mm film
To prepare slides in projector for logo projection

Can you suggest me what are the printer and films required for this?