Really appreciate all of your videos. It’s clear you put a lot of time and effort into these. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us common folk 🙏🏻

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!! it means a lot you would comment. Thanks for being here!

You’re back!!!

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! thanks for noticing! Its been a crazy couple of months! Christmas and all that plus got sick twice in January and remodeled my kitchen. SO MUCH. haha I also have 2 jobs. Very close to quitting 1 to be full time photographer/videographer with my wedding business. Super pumped. Thanks for being here! Your comments mean a lot to supporting the channel!

Super helpful video. Thank you!

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Great video! My biggest challenge is EXIF tagging and replication of images to cloud and on-prem NAS. For our phones they all use gphotos and resilio sync. For Canon digital, they go via image.canon to gphotos and NAS via Window s client. Analog is the challenge for me. At the moment, once my images are done, they're exported to my NAS staging directory. I then run a Linux script, which asks a bunch of questions (film type, ISO shot, lens, camera, event, etc.). From there, the jpegs are renamed, EXIF data fields are set, the album is created on my home NAS, and then it is pushed to gphotos using rclone and an album created. I use Silverfast and traditional scanning - full roll scans on an XA Super for 35mm, v800 for MF. I have the gear to camera scan, and I have worked with it extensively, but even with the most recent versions of NLP I kept having to futz with it. Achieving consistent results was just not easy for me. Silverfast takes longer, but so much more consistent. At any rate, I hope so much to see a vendor or an open source project pop up that provides for the stuff I'm manually doing now. I may clean up my code and publish it on GIT because I've got the core parts done.

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the in depth comment! The NAS storage is a bit over my head sadly! I wish I could help you there! I need to get a NAS myself! As for a better and faster film scanning client I totally agree! Batch scanning would be so nice! It’s hard to have a fast workflow with this stuff!

@jw48335

2 жыл бұрын

@@film_friends The XAs yields 24mpx real optical resolution, plus IR dust removal - it's fantastic - I can't see a difference between that scanner and using the EOS R. PM me if you want advice on storage and cloud - it's what I do work, although my work measures storage in petabytes :)

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!! I need all the help in storage. I’m about to upgrade! You like the synology stuff?

Hmmm I was thinking there will be some simple scan-import-curve inversion-adjustments tips only with LR but when I saw Negative Lab I was like heeee why would you show that for beginners and then I saw affiliate links....

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

If you can invert curves in Lightroom and make a good image without negative lab pro I will be very impressed. For the near mortals, there is Negative Lab Pro. Affiliate link is different from sponsorship. Affiliate means I like the product and I’m telling your about it. I contacted the company and they have a program that helps me out by telling you about a project I already like. Sponsor is them specifically paying me to say stuff. Super different. And I will always disclose which is happening. 💫🤙🏼

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

I also have a Negative Lab walkthrough if you need help with that. This channel discussed several other options including Silverfast and Film Lab, competitors to NLP.

@atechcheck

2 жыл бұрын

@@film_friends no no I think you got it wrong :D it was just a comment on how basically 90% of YT works :D I am fine with affiliates but when someone make a titel and/or thumbnail and we as a viewers are expecting something not involving extra costs/steps but are greeted with costs few min in to the video :D I do understand what you mean and since is not that easy I was really hoping that woow someone finally got an idea/solution how to do this in LR the easy way. Again problem is with title and thumb since in bot you could let us know that is is not what we thought it is :D just update thumbnail and Title with adding LR + Negative Lab Pro and all is fine since I really find both misleading even if it was not meant to be :D

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

@@atechcheck I get being bumbed out by missleading titles too. I try not to use them. This actually is a beginner lightroom tutorial for film photographers to understand lightroom and not a video on how to convert negatives to positives. I have several videos titled that covering 3 different methods (all paid methods) on my channel. if all 3 videos were titled "how to convert negatives to positives" that would be confusing to find the right one as there are a ton of different methods. deff check out those other videos, there are lots of options out there and I will cover more soon. This is my scanning video which does use a scanner you have to purchase, but it uses free software that comes with the scanner. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmpqsJmse5u5qdo.html Just trying to explain, and sorry you were served the incorrect video. This is titled how to use lightroom for film photographers. not how to convert negatives in lightroom. it also says for beginners and in depth tutorial. I think the title is pretty specific. haha and adding more words prob wouldent help. I should take away words really hahah.

Love your videos! I will say there is a fundamental error in your teaching when you say "catalogs are how Lightroom stores your shoots." Lightroom was designed to be used as a single-catalog system. Adobe says this specifically on their website. You should be using one master catalog, and then using folder structure in the Library module to organize shoots and file locations. By use a new catalog per session you are breaking a lot of fundamental power in Lightroom (mobile editing, facial recognition, metadata organization, search) and, really, overcomplicating it. Per-shoot catalogs have their place in the field (ingesting on site) or when sending a shoot to someone else to work on, but at the end of the day they should be merged back into your master catalog. Also, backing up your catalog is important because that's literally where everything about your editing and folder structure is saved aside from the raw/negative files themselves. Backing up every time you exit is overkill, but I personally make sure to save after every wedding is finalized because if the catalog file were to be lost or corrupted, I'd have to re-edit the entire wedding.

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

That’s cool I’ll have to check that out. That sounds similar to the way that Final Cut Pro organizes their back end too. It’s pretty awful haha. Premier Pro seems to be the only file system I like, but not by much. Haha I do this management for several reasons. Mostly trying to not over complicate it. I didn’t want to go too far into that with this video but you make great points on the back end. By having individual catalogs I can move those catalogs between multiple Macs and PCs and store in different ways. And then delete when I’m done. I don’t save stuff for long. But I do save raws for a year or two after the wedding and we won’t clear the project file for about a year. Our workflow hasn’t run into snags with reworking anything but if we did I would prob start fresh with the raws and the original cull. Many ways to do different things. My workflow tends to fight some of the built in stuff that these companies try to force you into and ultimately pay for more. I just want a photo editor where I save my own files. I just want a video editor where I save my own workflow. But alas Adobe and Apple change things and force me to do stuff that doesn’t fit my flow. Haha I’m all about my own storage and simple. Your glow sounds great! Keep doing it and educating folk! I’ll check that out for my next project and thanks for the support dude!

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Also why I like classic vs the other one

Hello 1willcobb! This is Kodak Photo Printer. The videos you make are very entertaining, and we are interested in working with you. If you are interested in a collaboration, could you please provide your email address? If you have any questions, let us know. Thank you! 🙂

@film_friends

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks hit up the email in my KZread info section for colabs