Field Work - Cantwell Cliffs, Hocking Hills - Large Format Friday
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- In a race against bad weather, I headed down to Hocking Hills yesterday morning to visit Cantwell Cliffs. It's a location I've been down to again and again over the past eight years. The trip didn't disappoint and I had a bunch of fun burning some 8x10" Kodak Tmax 100. B&W film processed in Pyrocat HD and scanned on an Epson V700 (flatbed).
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I live in Lancaster and I love these sites for photography and just a nice peaceful hike
Love the tree roots, reminded me of birds feet on a branch. All those steps though, my knees hurt just watching!
Thanks Jeni, it's all the positive vibes in the comments section that psyche me up for the next outing!
I really liked the one with the tree roots. Thanks for the tip about image circles and wide angle lenses.
Thanks Bernard!
Mat I get tired just looking at you lug that kit around. You must be the fittest photographer on You tube. And you pack up really fast! Appreciate the hard work you put in. Photographs, as always, beautiful.
Thanks for the comment Tony, it's fun to be able to bring the filming gear along and share these places with everyone. Yesterday's hike made me start to feel my age, which is a sign I need to head out more often with the LF kit!
Brilliant work. Loved it.
Thanks a lot!
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Great work! I'm winded just watching.
You and me both!
Don't just get a frickin' tripod, get a *good* frickin' tripod! :-D
Absolute must!
This is inspirational. The working packing equipment, the process setting up, the dance composing, the excitement looking through the ground glass, and the anticipation (and sometimes disappointment) of seeing the results. I've got my gear loaded in a backpack waiting for it to stop snowing...
Thanks for the compliment and fingers crossed you're able to get out shooting soon!
Reminds me of taking the whole family down last year and almost dying on the way back up. haha
How many did you carry?
@@yvinddahle7714 0. We are just out of shape haha
I'm thinking of naming a BIG camera "the whole family" just to make these trips sound more reasonable!
@@MatMarrash 😂😂😂
Thank you for making this, very interesting and enjoyable to watch. I really like some of your shots, especially the second one and also the one with the tree trunks!
Martin glad you enjoyed the video, "Field Work" episodes are some of my favorites to make. Be sure to check out the entire playlist of them!
Love the field work!!!
Thanks it's my favorite thing to make on LFF!
My name is carved on the boulder behind you at 1:58
Great work! And it is no lazy office work here ;)
Nice results too. Love that rocky structures…
Thanks, I'm starting to appreciate the rock formations at Cantwell Cliffs with every visit.
Hi Matt, I was wondering what the make/type of the small portable light meter you are using in this video? Thanks, I enjoy your relaxed style
Thanks for the question. That's the recently crowdfunded Reveni Labs Spot Meter. You can check out the project and updates here: www.reveni-labs.com/shop/p/reveni-labs-spot-meter-pre-order
Super enjoyable, Mat. Nice and relaxing to watch. Great images.
Thank you Bill, much appreciated!
It so nice to see you back!!! Mat Fever!!
Thanks Ammar good to be back!
Man just watching you lug that that gear around made me breathe hard with you 😂😂.
Beautiful shots though, especially loved the first staircase you shot
What a workout! Well done. I enjoyed that. Thank you.
Thanks Jeff, hiking with LF gear is a great cure for getting to bed on time too!
@@MatMarrash you’ve got that right. I liked your advice about tripod requirements too. I have a wooden 12lb one that’s heavy to carry but it’s so stable for my 5lb camera. There are time where “Medium Format Monday’s”. Sounds like a good idea. Keep up the great work. I am always impressed with how much work you put into creating your videos.
Some excellent images and impressive printing. Cheers!
Many thanks!
Really digging these videos. Definitely inspired to try large format soon. I'm Chicago, so it'll be a fun project for the winter around the house and back/alley off the deck to gets some really nice light around dawn. Been shooting mirrorless for a few years on walks and trips and this feels like the next thing for me. Handheld digital is a great feeling with the immediacy and the instant feedback on different exposure decisons, but I'm excited to slow down. In the meantime going to finish watching the videos on this chanel and maybe pickup the Adams books on this.
Hey Issac thanks for the comment and for checking out the channel. There's plenty of great locations to photograph (in any format) in Chicago. One of my all time favorite LF photographers was from there, Art Sinsabaugh.
@@MatMarrash Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check Art out. I love paging through photography books. Shore, Struth, and Meyoritz, as more modern LF artists, perked my interest in this format. Stieglitz and Steichen were older and and i really dig them too.
Matt, I really enjoy your videos. Do you suggest making a trip to a location for scouting out potential shots first? One cool thing I have seen some photographers do is give out weekly or monthly assignments. For example you can ask your viewers to submit some shots of a particular theme. ie. Trains, rural farms etc. You could then provide some tips on how to improve the images. Thanks again for all your hard work in producing all these great videos. BTW I have an Intrepid 4x5 that I am finally going to take out for the first time this weekend.
Mat - You’ve been using the Reveni Labs spot meter, how do you find it? What mode are you using? Appears exposure are spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Loving the Reveni Spot Meter and stopped packing my Sekonic back when I did the video overview earlier this year. Saving the extra weight allowed me to bring the 121mm lens this time!
Hi Mat! I really enjoyed this one. As I mentioned before, I photographed a lot in the Hocking Hills when I lived in Columbus so I always like seeing you go somewhere around there. When I started watching this one I hoped to see a spot where I made one of my favorites from the area and you didn't disappoint! From the exact camera position of your first setup, rotate 90 degrees to the left to photograph that curved wall at the opening to the narrow passage and the neat textured wall on the left, which was the subject of your second setup. Anyway, thanks for the neat tour of such a beautiful location. I was wondering, since you mentioned using Tmax100, if the times you gave were with reciprocity figured in? I think the reciprocity kicks in at about 4 seconds? Thanks again Mat. Take care!
Thanks Scott, yeah the reciprocity is minor until about 30 sec. Many of the shots I'm explaining metered time then just exposing with reciprocity adjusted. It's such a habit at this point I barely point it out. Will try to remember to mention this in the future. Also keep up the good work on the videos out West!
@@MatMarrash Thanks Mat! Makes sense about the reciprocity. Yeah, it was a long trip out west last fall and so many videos! Episode 20 tomorrow (the last one from that trip!) Then I’m heading to the Smokies the following week for Spring foliage. No rest for the weary! Take care.
You were wearing a nice black t-shirt, Matt. They make a decent dark cloth once you take it off.
You never know: you might get more subscribers (and maybe a different group of sponsors than you're used to) that way. Is your wife the jealous type? ;)
Michael I don't want to scare away the 1% of female viewers that this channel already receives. Shirts do make great dark cloths, though.
Maybe you'll want to adopt my solution for the darkcloth problem. I never got one! Instead I use an old black T-shirt that I just pop my head through and use the waist side to fit on the camera. Best of all it can double as "padding material" in my bag.
T-shirts are always an option...unless there's potentially a few thousand people watching you take off your shirt while taking photos! >__
@@MatMarrash That's why I always have a spare one in my bag. I wouldn't want to make anyone jealous 🤔 though I doubt it would be the case 🙄
Great work! Have you ever tried compensating (i.e. two stage) development to hold back highlights after exposing for deep shadows?
Hey Mark, while I've used my developer (Pyrocat HD) as a two part developer before, it was way less economical to prepare and haven't tried it since. May have to give it ago sometime for the channel. Cheers!
@@MatMarrash If you make a second, very dilute developer by serially diluting a bit of extra regular dilution, that minimizes the amount of stock you need to use, in case it's hard to measure the stock itself for a small amount of the dilute secondary. Ansel Adams in The Negative describes using a second stage that has no developer at all, just an alkaline bath to allow the developer that sticks to the film to keep working after switching. He mentions a specific Kodak reagent, I haven't researched to see what else might be in it. You can make alkaline solutions at home with washing soda (worst case can make that by baking baking soda in a dry oven), or buy some sodium hydroxide and make a dilute solution. Cheers, love the channel, I'm learning a lot for the occasional large format work I do.
Beautiful shots! I would be worried about jarring the camera with that tiny short cable release!
It's worked surprisingly well and great that it can pack up with the lens when I'm done with it.
Matt, what camera bag are you using and how many frames and lenses can you carry for an outing like this?
It's an old LowePro Super Trekker AWII + garage sale cooler bag. The LowePro holds the 8x10 camera + 5 lenses + filters & accesories. The cooler bag can hold up to 8 holders, but I only brought along 3 yesterday.
Great video Mat! T-Max 100? Wow, that's very cool. So disappointing that Kodak doesn't make that (to my knowledge) for 8x10. Out of curiosity, how are you calculating your exposures for reciprocity failure. I was looking at purchasing some T-max 100 for my 4x5.
Steve, you can get TMax 100 in 8x10 as a special order through Keith Canham. He just completed an order but you can get on the waitlist for the next group purchase.
Hey Steve thanks for the question. Years ago I printed out little reciprocity charts based on manufacturer data sheets and stuck them in my wallet. TMX is great since it has very little reciprocity failure until you hit 30 sec. of metered exposure. An excellent film stock and second only to Acros 100 for long exposures.
Got some expired T max 4x5 for a very good price, wish I’d got more, developed in FX-39 with great results
@@ChristopherMay I'm on the list! Thank you for the heads up on this!
@@jonathanhotopf1823 I ordered a box of T-Max 100 4x5 from MPEX.com yesterday otherwise I'd be interested.
Mat, I'd be interested in knowing how you edit your photos. The tones you get seem very distinctive. What software do you use and how do you adjust your tonal valus?
Nothing special, Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Typically a bit of curves, contrast, and sharpening. Some of the "look" is the long tonal scale achieved from the developer, but edits typically don't exceed what I could achieve in the darkroom (so I'm able the print them by hand to the same standard).
I kept worrying you would have your camera go for a tumble!!!
A few near misses but me and the camera are still kicking!
What new camera are you using for the Vlog? Nice stuff.
Upgraded to the Fujifilm X-T4 and loving how easily it handles and grades. Also an excuse to buy more gear, so there's that.
When do you switch to the bag bellows? I thought it was a necessary for wide angle? Sorry if its a naive question but my LF experience if very limited.
I’d also be interested in this. I recently ran into limitations where I probably could have used bag bellows. But maybe with careful camera movement selection you can do with out them.
The 121mm used do not have any movement on 8x10", so no need for a bag bellows. With a 150mm or 165mm with a big circle, you may need a bag bellows, but only when using substantial shift. My 150mm is mounted on a lens board with 21mm shift built in, and I can turn the lens board 360 degrees. The lack of bag bellows option made me order that lens board.
Great question Brendan! My 8x10 field camera doesn't have interchangeable bellows, so at shorter focal lengths movements are greatly reduced. Considering smaller image circles with ultra wide lenses, it's not as big a loss as it would seem.
That's a pretty cool modification having a board with some built-in movements! Also yes, the 121 has zero room for movements, but would be nice to have a bit more breathing room with the 150mm.
@@MatMarrash Thanks very much. That being said, would you choose a of camera that had interchangeable bellows in the future? I need to do LF and I’m trying to decide which way to go. Thanks for thé quick response. Have a great weekend.
What tripod head are you using?
Hey Joseph, this is an old Majestic geared head with a Novoflex quick release on the top. Here's an older video from LFF featuring the head: ruclips.net/video/fraADuAALyo/видео.html
Thank you!
Hiking with the 8x10...nice also awesome results!
It's all part of the workout plan!