Today, we're going to be doing something completely different. As you can see, I'm going to be doing some still life photography
some country still life photography
I'm here at my parents farm and I'm gonna be
making images of the tools that they use in the garden and all the stuff that they have here, like old TVs
and old radios. I think it could be very, very cool. My setup is pretty simple
I'm using just a piece of plywood here with a backdrop that I bought on Amazon for some 20 bucks
I'm pretty sure that there are much better backdrops out there
but this one is more than enough for what I want to do
I'm gonna leave the link down below in the description if someone wants to check it out.
Camera wise I'll be using my bronica with 150mm lens
I'll be shooting FP4
but, since this is my second time ever doing some still life photography, and I'm still not sure where to go with
my style for this, I'm gonna be shooting my digital camera as well
That way I can play with the RAW files
in the next few days and see where I can go with them
but I do think that FP4, I'm gonna be rating it at 100,
plus the orange filter is gonna get me very very close to what I want to achieve here, but we will see
This is gonna be my first image. In this one, I want to get some of the details of that blade
I got a reading with my digital camera f/5.6, 1/200. The Bronica doesn't have 1/200 so I'm gonna do 1/125
to make sure that those details are going to be there in the shadows, and then I have to compensate for the orange filter
so I'm gonna have to decrease the shutter speed by 2 stops
Now, as I said, I'm gonna make the digital version of this.
As you can see, I'm using my big lens the 70-200mm f/4. This is an amazing lens
but it's just too much for me to carry it
on regular trips because I have my vlogging gear and I have the bronica
So yeah, I settled on the 55-210mm that is just perfectly fine to take photos on trips
but this one is perfect for these kind of situations where you don't have to carry it with you.
Looks good. The histogram looks good. So I'm just gonna take it
And that should be it
So I'm taking two shots per subject, the settings are the same but I'm trying different compositions like in this case
I'm farther away from the TV. I have more negative space on top of the TV
I don't know what's gonna work best, but I wanna have the option of choosing between the two compositions
So that's what I'm gonna do here
I've been using the mirror lock-up feature because at these shutter speeds, 1/30th of a second I'm using now
with this lens, the 150mm, that would be adding some camera shake. And of course we want to avoid that
All right, so that was the 4th shot
I gotta say, I hate this tripod every time I bring it with me on a hike or something like that because it's so big and
so heavy, but it's also so convenient for situations like this because you can do pretty much anything you want with it
So look at this, this is amazing. It's just perfect for this situation
Took me a long time to come up with this composition
I've had a hard time with this tool. What I was trying to do here is to capture the whole thing
That's why I moved the whole setup here because of the white wall here that would work as a background
I thought that it could be cool. But the problem is on this part of the tool, the tool itself
I find it really hard to capture and to create a composition of that, even if I was taking the whole tool this part wasn't
looking that good. I've settled on a close-up of this part of the tool
I like the details here how the metallic part hugs the stick
So I'm gonna be showing this in the center of the frame, a little bit of the stick and then I'm gonna cut the top
part of the tool here. So it creates a little bit of mystery too. And you wonder what kind of tool this is
So that's what I'm gonna do now
So I just found these two
I don't think they've been used in years because they are full of spider webs and everything. Actually, I think a spider bit me here
Oh, well, we'll see what I can do with these two. They look pretty cool. I'm not even gonna take the
spider webs from there because they look awesome too. So let's try
Last image of the morning
What I'm trying to do here is to have the stick going diagonally through the frame and out of focus
I'm gonna be focusing on the tool. It looks pretty cool with all that dirt and spider webs
I already took one with my digital camera, but the Bronica is gonna be so much better here because that medium format
negative size is going to completely blur this stick, and it's going to look very, very good. I hope
All right, so this is it for today, I don't have more time this morning, but I will be doing this again for sure
I hope that the images look good
I hope that FP4 was the right choice for the film stock, to achieve the look that I'm kind of
looking for, but I have digital if
if that's not the case, so I can play with it, and now the film back
doesn't
want to work
There you go.
Hope you all enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one