Very cool to recreate Brokeback Mountain trip with a friend, thanks Jason!

@TryinaD

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not gay if you carry large format cameras

@ervczek

2 жыл бұрын

@@TryinaD I think we just got the "no homo" alternative in film photography world

@LittleMissIssues

Жыл бұрын

@@TryinaD bahahaha I just spit out my coffee!!!! lol

I said it once, and I'll say it again, your longer videos are amazing. Thanks, Jason.

@aarontimm

Жыл бұрын

hard bunp. short form drives me insane

That chair is one of my favorite subjects. I've photographed it at least 5 times in the last 18 years. It used to stand in front of the range of rooms that are now burned down. Over the years it has moved, slowly making its way out into the desert. Great video as always, Jason. Cheers.

@lukeherrala5618

2 жыл бұрын

Is it somewhere along 395? I’d love to go photograph it. Totally understand tho if you want to keep the location hidden. Beautiful places like that get ruined when too many people know about it.

Gotta drop in here and say you're way too hard on yourself with some of these shots you say are "meh" - this is a lot of good shit here. I do not have the guts to shoot large format, and you're pulling it off. Good job dude.

@Appleboot

2 жыл бұрын

I take it as a running gag of his channel. I'm pretty sure he knows what he's worth.

@AlumarsX

2 жыл бұрын

@@Appleboot a penny

35 minutes and 24 seconds of entertainment!!!! It's always a joy watching your videos

When the story starts with "Recently Caleb and I" you know it's gonna be a great story. Lots of shit pictures, and a great story.

@MartinH81

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that's a special flavor compliment :P

Fun fact: Ghost towns aren’t always abandoned. There’s a ghost town near me, called Shafter, where they mined silver. At one point, 4,000 people called it home, with about a dozen or two still living there today. I think the ghost town qualification is just that it used to be a productive town, but its resources have been exhausted.

I think this has to be one of the best videos you've done, Jason. Love how you talk to camera on location a little more in this video but still keep the sarcastic, monotone commentator vibe that you put in the rest of your videos. Love it!!

This was so awesome to watch! I love to see longer videos that are 30-60mins. You did a really great job on this trip!

This guy is legit funnier than a few of my go-to comedians. Combined with a great photography experience, I love this channel.

I love how the compositions in his videos and his pictures are great independently, but together they’re a masterpiece

Haha I think you've really nailed the LF experience. It's full of heartbeak, talking to yourself and occasionally some accidental magic. Brave on the 8x10. I stay with 4x5 and even then it's ridiculous. Great videos.

simplyfing the definition of portrait to just "subject and background" has unlocked something for me. i feel like I just had the biggest, dumbest realization just now

Such great storytelling. I really appreciate you critiquing your compositions for us. I’m all digital but learn so much by watching the way you thoughtfully frame your work. Thanks for making these videos.

Your videos are an absolute gift and the best thing to watch when you want to chill and get inspired. Thank you Jason

I have really enjoyed watching your videos during the pandemic, thank you for continuing to make great content with your buddy.

Really enjoyed this video this morning while I ate breakfast. Gave the morning a very simple and relaxing feel. Thanks Jason!

This might be my favorite video you've ever made. Up there with the Northern California trip and the first human photo mini-doc. Keep up the great work. Really appreciate your channel.

Stunning! I love those longer videos, music, comments everything is perfect!

Loved the filming throughout this video and the images of course. Killer work man!

I shot my first roll 4 years ago. I was 14 years old, my grandma gave me her camera but I didn't like the results, stopped shooting film and went to the digital world. Founding your channel last year made me give it another shot. And now, film is my passion. Just want to say thank you! You're a really inspiration for me

One of my all time favourites from your videos; loved the introduction to a really interesting piece of gear, and thought you created some incredible images with it

I love shooting 8x10 - I did a month long project a few months ago and it was bliss. I carry the camera in a proper backpack not a camera bag though for extra comfort and try not to hike to far from the car. I had to climb down many precarious steps to get to a location and knew I'd be there all day, so I hired someone to be the camel. Worth every penny and he even learned to write the exposure notes that I dictated to him. Sometimes you just have to do that!

I was cartwheeling through KZread and tripped and fell into this channel. I don't shoot film but your videos are some serious entertainment. A nice switch up from everyone always feeling they need to yell at me to get their point across. I dig it.

Your videos are so satisfying to watch! Also I love your humor.

Love the symmetry of you both coming back to the same place at the end. As a great man once said, “It’s like poetry, it rhymes”

This is one of your best videos yet, but I don't know anything about videos. I do know watching you use that antique beast is fascinating, and the shot of the kitchen turned out amazing. Thanks for the work you post here.

Always love your videos man, a real inspiration to me and others. Keep it up!

finallyyyyy ive been so excited the last weeks for the new video. Since I started shooting this year your content is one of the best one the web

Again an absolute gem of a video, thanks Jason 🤙🏼

Amazingly fun video and just as amazing frames. Very beautiful! Good jorb!

Nice work, thanks for sharing. The quality and detail of large format is just amazing.

anybody that shoots large has my utmost respect because I think shooting film cameras without a meter is a lot work & you do this with good results .

you're so hard on yourself! all of these photos are truly incredible!!

This was a really cool video, I really liked a lot of the shots. The editing and storytelling were great too, I really enjoyed this format

These longform videos; amazing. Honestly, there’s lots of dope shots here too

Wonderfully narrated. Thanks for the joyful ride...

Amazing journey, love the photos! The locations are golden and stunning for photography, some I have seen before, some I will love to visit one day. Its mind blowing how large format has a prescence unlike other film formats. You worked hard and it really shows, awesome dude! I just finished a 35mm roll that was in my camera for 3 months, but thats my goal this year, shoot more film, all inspired by your videos.

As always, I thoroughly enjoy your videos!

Your video is exactly what I needed this morning ! Thank you very much !

Love the framing at 0:25 ! The way you used that corrugated sheet as a frame for yourself is ingenious!

The video production on this video is amazing. Must have been so much work along with the already taxing work of shooting large format. Really awesome work!

I spend god knows how much on streaming tv and this is the best thing I’ve watched all week. Love u guys.

Thanks for making this video. It can be notice the love that you deposit in every frame. I hope you can find more trips with less aches haha. I follow you since the lockdown, I re-started to shoot film since then. Cheers, from Argentina.

I love your videos, cant wait to see more

This was my first video of yours that I really enjoyed and it got me hooked.

These long videos are incredible. Certainly not the best suited to the youtube algorithme but still very pleasant to watch From France, those locations look incredible, very impressive to see all these abandoned places. Beautiful work !

Nice record of the difficulty and frustration that is large format photography. You really value the shots that work out. I find that with large format details become the subject matter where as with smaller formats the content and subject matter more. If you nail the details you can almost be forgiven for a so so composition. It's like focusing on the individual stars of the milkyway.

Nah man, these shots are amazing! I really enjoyed this long video, it hits differently. Keep em coming 🙌🙌🙌

I have to say, no matter how many times I've seen a video before, whenever I'm in a bad mood putting your content on just makes the world seem ok.

this is the natural progression. started with an f100, got a fuji gw690, got a second one, a zenza, then i yolo'd and bought a great sinar f1 4x5 that was in mint condition off of craigslist that came with everything and a case for 350 canadian. Now some of my best photos are coming from that large format. Using the 4 x 5 I slow down so much, I get so many questions. What's even better is Jeff Wall sold me 10 boxes of portra 400, for 30 CAD a box, and 10 boxes of a velvia 50 from another seller for 50 a box. Doesn't get much better than that.

The B&W image at 15:06 - people underestimate the contrast envelope (dynamic range) of film. In the old days, a film's performance was measured through a methodology called densitometry or sensitometry and the measurements got plotted into a graph. The X-axis of that graph would typically be in 10-base log of intensity*time of the exposure to the film and then the Y-axis was the "density" (something like the degree of saturation). Photographers were after the "straight piece" in the curve, as it was considered the "usable" dynamic range. Typically, that straight piece in the curve was a function of a 4 to 4.5 units on the X-axis and if we then remove the 10-bas log from these numbers we get i*t values in the 10 (starting at 1) to 100,000 (that would be 5 for a delta log i*t of 4) range. In EV (2-base log), such a range gets us to over 13, depending on where the film starts its straight piece. If we had scan software that can deal with the non-linear shoulders of the densitometry curve of film so as to make that linear, then we can gain a couple EV more dynamic range from film. The problem with film was that it is hard to get beyond 5 EV dynamic range in print. Monitor/displays are not lot better, though, and dynamic contrast simulations are very imprecise (not usable for the serious photographer).

Excellent video. Reminded me of some photo trips I had taken with a friend and a large format camera. Have to do that again soon.

Love your stuff mate. Funniest commentary ever. I look forward to each vid 👍🏻

Another fantastic video with stunning images and riveting narration. Nice to know that despite being at opposite ends of the depth of field preference, getting hammered can be your common ground. You really do labor for your art and the results are worth it. Those were some really cool locations! (Some more than others, but hey.). Now to check out the other side of the album...

Amazing video!!! Music choice in the end was great. Thanks again for making videos!!

Impressive, what a crazy project. So nice photos, great video

Just getting back into Film and I am binging the hell out of these long form videos keep up the great work

Yes loved this video and love your longer versions

IMMA LET YOU FINISH. But let me like this video right now. So I can watch this when I get home from work and chill the F out while doing so.

My god a roller coaster of emotions, amazing thank you for sharing

Love that special Portra “love” view. I think it would have been especially good taken from the perspective of the crop at @6:17. The contrasts of shapes and colors are fantastic.

Good vibes, well done!!

Please keep uploading long videos and even longer ones. I love your vids!!!

Great video, beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing your process.

Super cool video Jason. That drone shot for the opening scene in Nevada, pure Gold. Cinema 🍿

@acentoni

2 жыл бұрын

Came to say this.

Very entertaining, Jason. I enjoyed your b&w shots, too. Good work. I shot 4x5 for several years. Every once in a while I kind of get a yearning to break out the old Linhof and give it another go. When I do I take a nap until the feeling goes away. Can't believe my wife and I backpacked all that equipment all over the Smoky Mountain Nat'l Park. I carried 35 pounds of photography equipment and she carried the umbrella (for the camera), lunch, water, and preprinted note cards for each exposure. I still have all of it in our files.

This video and the images were sooo good! I'm glad you guys are willing to subject yourselves to the abuse of large format because I don't think I will ever venture farther than medium format haha

Baxter's appearances: - NONE Sorry friends, Cheers

@natemathewson5200

2 жыл бұрын

Day ruined, thanks for your continued service tho

@DogsandFilm

2 жыл бұрын

@@natemathewson5200 no problem, doing my best

@jeremyrowlettmedia

2 жыл бұрын

2 seconds into the video. Big spoiler!

unreal I love these videos. Keep up the good work

Ghost town - a town with ghosts. Abandoned ghost town - even the ghosts have left.

Thanks for sharing your expedition! Now i’m sure my Zeiss Ercona is as far down this film hole as i need to go. You did get some Nice Shots ! 👏

Really enjoy your road trip videos mate- good work!

That train platform used to be part of the Owens Valley narrow gauge railroad. The old Lone Pine depot is still standing, although it sits on private property just north of that spot.

Large format is difficult, but well worth the trouble. Great video, great images. Thanks for taking us along.

22:09 the fact you got their perplexed look in the reflection of the camera is so awesome hahah "time traveler" the dry humor on this channel is second to none!

Another great video. Plenty of great photos in there! I particularly loved the black and white ones by the lake. Id be curious to know which ProMist you used in those and the settings for that Motel night photo.

Your content is a constant source of joy

15:12 I really like this shot, the chair in the kitchen and the one in the other room kinda signify the last traces of an alienated couple

Love your photography man!

Great video. You’ve inspired me. I have a beautiful Ebony 4x5 sitting on a shelf beckoning to me.

Great videos man, entertaining and real.

this is one of the best set of pictures i have seen from you

That was great. I'll watch it again. Super interesting.

Few can do long format videos. Bravo! 👏 Kudos for the 8x10 camera. There’s nothing like large format.

The shot at 30:44 is so close to an Edward Hopper painting its unreal. Such great use of light and spacing.

I like how technical you are in the photoshoot process and how funny you are in the video. it's not usual, and those who do it so far do not do it as good as you do. wow you can see m french with that last sentence.

you always make my days when you upload, thanks :)

You know, one of the greatest aspects of Your 8x10 images is that they portray (depth). A characteristic that you really have to be mindful of when using that format. I don’t know why but that size of film tends to flatten subjects and using foregrounds, and in your case, leading lines also, is almost a must, to get away from that, to me, unfortunate feature of the “Grand Camera”. Bob.

At this point, I would watch a full length feature film version of this. Sending love!

its good day when Jason posts!

Great work with that 8x10. Ansel Adams would be proud. KB

Love the long form videos 🙌🏻

You are an amazing person and a incredibly great photographer!! 🤯

best film photography vid I've ever seen

Nice set of images and good content for a longer than normal video that you put out. Keep the LF stuff coming.

One of the beauties of sheet film is that you can adjust the developing to account for the exposure. ;-) I have some Ektachrome that expired in 2012 and has always been cold stored. It has lost some speed and recent rolls had to be overexposed by 1/3 stop for perfect exposure.

@franz1068

2 жыл бұрын

is there a rule of thumb how much you should overexpose?

@tim31415

2 жыл бұрын

@@franz1068 It would depend a lot on how the film has been stored. Apart from the very small (1/3 stop) shift over about 10 years, my cold stored film still looks pretty much like new.

12:40 actualy it looks like somthing that could have ended up on cover art for early Pink Floyd album. I love it.

Such a good video and some insanely good shots.

Having handled expired Ektachrome myself I recommend metering it box speed and push 1 stop in dev each 10-20 yrs it has expired depending how it was stored

@MyHunter9090

2 жыл бұрын

Why push in dev rather than rate the box speed higher?

@theo_korner

2 жыл бұрын

@@MyHunter9090 normally with expired film you would rate the box speed lower, but slide film is a reversal film. This means it has two developer steps in processing, one to create a mask similar to a BW dev, and one to develop the colours in the mask. Using two development agents does not respond well to over or under exposure of the emulsion, so you compensate the loss of reactivity caused by long storage by extending the time of the first development stage

@MyHunter9090

2 жыл бұрын

@@theo_korner sorry yeah I meant lower than box speed, so over exposing. Oh so you can only compensate the loss of sensitivity of old color reversal through development because overexposing it would ruin the mask from the first stage of development?

@theo_korner

2 жыл бұрын

@@MyHunter9090 I did a little mistake, you push with the first developer and do the colour development normally. this will create the correct mask. overexposing will maybe not ruin the mask but it wont have good contrast and very blown out highlights/washed out lighed parts of the image because it creates too much exposed silver halides in the emulsion which get developed in the first bath