Good morning everyone and welcome back to my channel. I've come today to the village in
Somerset called Axbridge with my Yashica. So i've had the Yashica now for about six months
and this will be my third roll of film in it. The first one was just getting used to the camera
so only a handful of the images actually came out okay and then obviously this film here showed that
I had a bit of an oops moment a couple weeks ago whereby i accidentally opened the back of the film
camera and saw that there was film located in the camera still, so see that video to see how that
turned out, but today is all about just taking the Yashica the light meter around Axbridge
and seeing what interesting compositions i can find. So yeah, so let's get going.
Right back in the office now it's been just under two months since i filmed that session and took
my Yashica to Axbridge to fill a role of HP5 plus Ilford 120 film. Looking at the results
now i'm pretty pleased actually with how they they turned out. I thought i'd take the opportunity now
just to have a look at them on the screen now and just go through them in a bit more detail
to see what issues i had and what i would do differently next time and yeah just talk talk
through some of the images some of my favorites and some which didn't work out quite so well.
So looking at the screen you can see that there's only 11 compositions and the reason
for this is when i took this image here, when the people had moved out of the shot
i tried to take a another image and that didn't turn out as well because although even in this
shot the cyclist is a little bit blurry, when i then took the second composition for whatever
reason the buildings were a little bit blurry so the frame and the composition didn't really work
so i decided to keep this one and ditch the the other frame and it's a real shame with this one
that i didn't wait just a fraction longer just so i could get a little bit more separation
between the cyclist and the pedestrian but I think I did pretty well considering i had to meter,
compose and focus the shot in quite quick order so yeah so not my best image but still
pretty good considering that there was a lot of movement in the image and I had to work quick.
So the second slight issue i had with this roll of film is that i mentioned it in my
previous video as well in that just the way i'm developing my film at the moment
with the lab box you are required to clip the reel onto the little bit of film that's sticking out of
the Lab-Box when you load the film (potentially unique to Yashica 24) and i think it's at that
point that it's exposing the first frame to light and then causing this kind of damage
that you can see a little bit on the bottom of this image but i've kind of cropped
this framing quite heavily and i tried to mitigate that in the next video you'll see
when I went to the villiage Shillingstone just before the New Year and it didn't quite
work there so I think I made the mistake of not winding the film on enough onto the reel, where I
think that I need to almost go past the start mark a little bit so anyway it's a work in progress to
trying to mitigate that issue but overall this was the doorway at the railway station and i think
it's quite a nice shot because it's got a lot of detail in these kind of little like lion heads
above the doorway but, it would have been nice to have a bit more of the foreground in
this image but on this occasion it didn't work. What I probably should have done is just taken
another composition here and that frame probably would have developed fine as all the others did.
So moving on to another disappointing image from the day
is this one. I don't know why this one isn't as sharp as it should be because i had plenty of time
to compose the shot it's just that i probably was a little bit nervous, i didn't want the fisherman
turning around and seeing what i was doing here and then also i've got these people on the left
hand side which isn't great but yeah so that was probably the biggest disappointment for me
that day because i really like this competition with the fishermen at this reservoir location just
outside of Axbridge so yeah, but conversely nearby to where he was sat i had this great image here
of this lone tree in a field with a great kind of fence line and then with
the village or small town of Axbridge in the mid ground so yeah the sky could be better but
generally i'm really pleased with how this image turned out, it's probably my one of my favorites
from the day. So i hope you really enjoyed this video, i'll be grateful for any comments
on the videoing or the images that you've seen in this film so thanks for watching, bye for now.