Today
Today we are going to be doing something completely different
We're going to be shooting indoors
I used to study here, in this high school
My mom used to teach here as well
I thought that it'd be a good idea to come here and capture a place
that is somehow special to me because I spent 4 years of my life studying here
even though that was 20+ years go
First of all, I want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible
They were very kind and they gave me the keys to many of the classrooms and labs and whatnot
So it should be fun, it should be something different
I don't really know what I'm going to be doing here, what I'm going to be capturing
but as you can see, I have the bronica, I brought some rolls of HP5
I have my digital camera as well
So yeah
Let's do it
I'm going try this classroom, let's see if I can find the key
No key
Oh yeah, this is the perfect place to make some good images
this is the chemistry lab, I guess that's how you call it
We have very, very interesting subjects everywhere
like these scales
all those chemicals there
I think I'm going to have a little bit of fun here
All right, so for this first shot of these robes here
I had to put the blinds down because they were creating some ugly reflections on the tiles
I'm going be making these images with the digital cameras here because it's very low light
It's much easier to do with the digital camera than with the Bronica
So, I think this is my favorite shot in this classroom
Those... how do you call it? Tubes? Whatever
From outside it's kind of cool, focusing on both the tubes and the glass
So one problem I ran into here, in this scene with the Bronica with the 150mm
is the minimal focal distance for this lens, it is much bigger, much greater than the
lens for the digital camera
I had to place the camera much farther away from the cabinets than I wanted to, than I anticipated
so I'm going to repeat this shot with my digital camera as well, so I can get closer to those tubes
pipes... whatever the name is, because they look pretty cool
You can see how much closer this lens can focus
Also another problem with this scene is my own reflection on the glass of the cabinet
So with this 2-second delay, I'm able to shoot and run
So my reflection is not there, hopefully the cameras reflection is not there
There are way too many fun things to play with here
and so little time, I might have half an hour, 45 minutes left here
So that's why I'm kind of rushing what I'm doing
I'm using my digital camera mostly, because the bronica...
I'd rather use the Bronica, but it's much, much slower
and with the digital camera I can move much faster from one composition to the other one
I don't have to spend that much time setting it up and looking for the settings
Look at this, this is like a movie projector, it's super cool
I have to make an image of this somehow
But even cooler than that is, in this next room, I believe
That table with that chair, that's so cool
I think that's a radio
It's too big, much bigger than I thought, many more things to photograph than I thought
I'm not going to have enough time today
so hopefully I can come back another day
I'm just going to finish today with my digital camera, once again, just handheld shots
so I can review them at home later and see what's working, what's not
and have a better idea for the next day, if I get that chance
All right, it looks like I'm going to have another hour or so here
I'm at the Natural Sciences laboratory now
There's a hawk there, or some kind of bird
There are some skeletons in this other room
so it should be fun here too
I remember these classrooms much bigger than they actually are
Otherwise, they seem pretty much unchanged
There is a computer now on the teacher's desk
There used to be no computer there
But yeah, pretty much the same
All right, so this was it for today, I'm calling it a day
It was fun, it was different, I was definitely out of my comfort zone
It was a different experience because I had the whole place to myself for 2h30min
which is pretty cool, but I feel like I didn't have enough time
I'd love to come back here so I'll be asking shortly if I can come back
There are a few classrooms that I have left
I also have the pavilion, where the students play sports
That could be cool too as well
The gym
I'd love to come back after I look at the images at home
And I know more or less what I like, what I don't
because most of these images were just guesses, some of them look better, some of them looked worse
but I don't really know what to expect and I don't really know if I'm going to like them or not
But yeah, shot a bunch of photos with the digital camera, shot a roll of film with the Bronica
or I finished the roll, I should say, because I had already 4-5 shots in there
But yeah, as I
Good timing
As I said, this is all for today
Thank you so much for watching
I hope you enjoyed this video, and see you in the next one