As an ex, advertising / fashion photographer in the ‘70 s and 80 s, using a Hasselblad 500c then m, thanks for the magic memories of the sound of that sheath being pulled out of the magazine and then that beautiful clunk of the shutter, pure bliss. Thanks Paul.
Awesome video as usual Paul, for me the clear winner is at 5:38 with the 50mm, the separation between the tree and Islands on the horizon and use of negative space make's this a wee masterpiece Imho. Top job mate.
The Taupo Tree! it you get there early enough the Wanaka, it much better including without it's lower right (my right branch gone) the Wanaka tree was the first! remember that Paul! the mountains and the light! amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Personally I like to pull this film one stop. I find that to suit my style of shooting. Your channel is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this content.
Absolutely love these photographs! They're all beautiful; I especially love the ones with the 50mm that still manage to feel simple/minimalist. And the one with the dead tree trunk is beautifully seen. Thank you for sharing!
I love the 120 Pan F film. Man, if you scan that 6x6 negative with a high res scanner, the resolution will be insane. The IQ knocks the socks off the vast majority of modern digital cameras.
Watching your videos is a very therapeutic thing to do in the morning while sipping on some tea. Those photos you made here are phenomenal! Great work and thanks for sharing it.
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hello Paul, yes beautifully, my sincere compliments. Thank you for inspiring us with your wonderful Hasselblad 500C / M series. From one photographer to another photographer congratulations and hug. elton rock
Some of your best work I reckon. Drum scanned and gallery sized would make for a great exhibition and fine art sales. A lovely counterpoint to the social documentary stuff you've done.
i use the same black 50mm T* lens and it is the only lens i have and need on my hasselblad love it so much. Enjoying your videos and loving the photography, they are making me want to leave the city behind.
The photo with the remains of the tree in the foreground, and the tree out in the lake plus the swan is stunning. I've got some of this film in my fridge. I've been waiting for the right time to use it . You've inspired me :-) 👍
Very very great place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Only one apreciation:Inst posible to put the the camera more to the left and take a foreground of the three washer,leaving the three between the island and the cape?, Other theme.Ive two rolls of the Ilford 50 in the fridge ,waiting better ligths,how many up and down exposition support the fillm?,or you might to do a perfect shot?,and the reciprocity?
You may have found a sweet spot. Location, vision, camera, film, all combining to make some of your very best images. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photographs. I agree with David Cordner; there is a tip of the hat to Michael Kenna in there.
Super nice photos, magic place indeed! That tree is just amazing looking. Perfect fit for that film and camera combination. You'll love the 50mm, it's one of my all time favourite lenses. I've had one for a couple of years, and I'm definitely never selling that one!
Beautiful images, Paul. Pan F is one of my favourite films, though I have only used it as 35mm on my M6 for portraits. Beautiful grain. I have a 120 roll waiting for me in the fridge and this episode has inspired me to shoot some landscapes with it.
Yet another interesting, informative and relaxing video to watch Paul. I love the photos. I sometimes shoot Pan F in 35mm and love the absence of visible grain in smaller prints. I guess the sharpness in medium format must be amazing! Kind regards.
Lovely tree and location with good results. I'm 2 years late but I find the tree position against the dark island in the background a bit strange it's to one side. My immediate thought was you'd centre it a bit more or have the darker isle left of the tree and the darker hill on the right but what would I know 🙂 Also love the shot with the tree stump and swan!
Terrific photos Paul, love the long exposures with the 50mm and I especially like the ones with the150mm, I must save up for one with my Hasselblad, though increasingly hard to come by, especially one of the earlier Silver 150 mm Sonnar C’s in good condition, like you have
Beautiful outstanding Compositions Paul, with calm lovely results, for all images you shot that day. Also glad you got a hold of the Distagon 50 :) A suggestion if I may Paul? Use the pre-release button (to get the mirror up) before taking your shot some sec after, when using long exposure :)
Yet another great great video, and it's great to see that you're enjoying the Taupo area and the Blad. I miss using the 500 cm and those wonderful Carl Zeiss lenses. What's next ... 4×5 ?
Pan F is a contrasty emulsion with a short straight section and abrupt toe and shoulder in its spectral response curve. The best way to deal with it is to rate it @ 25 or 32 and use a compensating developer to retain as much information on the negs as possible. The contrast can then be adjusted during the printing or scanning stage. Great photography BTW.
I had a feeling the 150 would find a wider friend sooner or later! As always very nicely done, love the aesthetic of the Ilford films/long exposures of the tree in the lake, especially the rippled reflections. Sorry to hear about the lens not surviving it’s first swimming lesson, but the camera did📸. Hope the socks were waterproof, I probably would have taken them off (barefoot probably works better if it’s warm, said the Florida man), nice little vacation spot you’ve found there!
Do you shoot pan F at box speed of 50asa? Sometimes I've had thin results and always go back to fp4. I do however use many cameras so perhaps shutters are not that accurate. I shot a roll of fomapan with a camera I had not used before. Took a big chance but I was blown away with the results. Every exposure bang on. I don't shoot fomapan 100 at box speed but at around 50asa and I'm using a tripod and very long exposures so speed does not matter for me.
For the 150, I would recommend a ring that converts it to 67mm. You can use it for the 80mm 2.8 as well, and the 67mm filters screw into the 50mm lens, but be careful with that one, since the actual thread is slightly smaller.
Paul C Smith Photographer Thanks for the reply. Duly noted, would you have a tripod that you recommend? I’m looking for one to use with my Hassy and other cameras
Hey Paul. Lovely video mate, and love the simplicity of these frames. Awesome work and nice to see you out and about enjoying Taupo. I returned from the south Island tonight and will give myself a few days off but we will try and catch up soon! PS, this is a really cool tree... and te fact that you have it to yourself! = ) Regards Ewan
I liked most the 50mm long exposure shots, so dreamlike. About the composition of the single hill in the background of the tree in some pictures I'm not fully with you, somehow it's distracting from the clearness of the shot in my opinion. But thx for sharing your shooting and thoughts with us. Also liked to see your dog is doing fine and seems to have adapted to the new place - didn't see him for some time.
Thankyou I will agree with you here, need to be more discerning with composition when composing minimalists scenes, I thinl I was focusing too much on the tree and not paying attention to the composition of the background.
Really beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing them. Your long shots seem to be really long exposures. Are you using a neutral density filter and if so which one?
Paul, your videos are not packed to gills with images and the measured conversation you provide with few stunning images raises the quality of your content in my opinion. Since you do a lot of work with B&W film, do you use yellow , red and orange filters with your M6 or Hasselblad ? Thank you
Have you noticed any latent image degradation with Pan F when the film is stored in fridge and developed long after exposure? I've read a recommendation for developing Pan F as soon as possible. Some have said it degrades quickly, even after two weeks. I have a tendency to collect exposed film in my fridge and develop it in batches later. It's like Christmas seeing the photos for the first time after several months.
Watching all of your videos yet again ... I love them everytime.
As an ex, advertising / fashion photographer in the ‘70 s and 80 s, using a Hasselblad 500c then m, thanks for the magic memories of the sound of that sheath being pulled out of the magazine and then that beautiful clunk of the shutter, pure bliss. Thanks Paul.
Thanks John your welcome
Great Photography! very nice video! Thanks!
Hi Paul, the biggest compliment I can pay to these images is that more than one has a very Michael Kenna look to them.
Thanks David
Stunning shots m8! This IS how black and white works!! Love em!
Awesome video as usual Paul, for me the clear winner is at 5:38 with the 50mm, the separation between the tree and Islands on the horizon and use of negative space make's this a wee masterpiece Imho. Top job mate.
Cheers mate my favorite also
Wonderful compositions! I like pan f!
I keep coming back to this video, Paul. Absolutely wonderful.
Thank you
The Taupo Tree! it you get there early enough the Wanaka, it much better including without it's lower right (my right branch gone) the Wanaka tree was the first! remember that Paul! the mountains and the light! amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I did enjoy that immensely, as I have all your hard work, and it's paired so perfectly with the music. Thank you Paul, very much.
Thanks Wade
Absolutely stunning photographs 😮
Lovely, thank you for sharing
You have shown just how Beautiful your part of the world is. You'll be in photography textbooks in the future. You're that good.
Thanks for that Anthony
Personally I like to pull this film one stop. I find that to suit my style of shooting. Your channel is absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this content.
Absolutely love these photographs! They're all beautiful; I especially love the ones with the 50mm that still manage to feel simple/minimalist. And the one with the dead tree trunk is beautifully seen. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Sean, really appreciate that
I love the 120 Pan F film. Man, if you scan that 6x6 negative with a high res scanner, the resolution will be insane. The IQ knocks the socks off the vast majority of modern digital cameras.
The simplicity of the second photo and the lovely details of the grasses on the tree in the fifth photo are very nice.
Watching your videos is a very therapeutic thing to do in the morning while sipping on some tea. Those photos you made here are phenomenal! Great work and thanks for sharing it.
Thank you
Amazing work
I just absolutely love the centered tree which mimics a digital binary reflection. Fantastic. What a great juxtaposition.
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Epic shots
Excellent video!
Love the tree shots Paul. Very peaceful.
hello Paul, yes beautifully, my sincere compliments.
Thank you for inspiring us with your wonderful Hasselblad 500C / M series.
From one photographer to another photographer congratulations and hug.
elton rock
Thanks Elton
Have a nice day Paul! You have again made a very beautiful composition. Congratulations Tamás.
Possibly your best work Paul. Fabulous!
Thank you
Awesome Paul
Thanks
Gorgeous!
Wow what stunning photos Paul. I think you're gonna cause a line up in front of this tree now! haha. Can't wait for prints to be available.
What a beautiful and peaceful place. I hope to visit New Zeland some day. Nice job, man. Keep on, keep safe
Some of your best work I reckon. Drum scanned and gallery sized would make for a great exhibition and fine art sales. A lovely counterpoint to the social documentary stuff you've done.
Paul , Great work. I really enjoyed the video
GREAT! I enjoy the 50mm Distagon on the 500 C/M as well as the 150mm Sonar. Keep up the good work!
i use the same black 50mm T* lens and it is the only lens i have and need on my hasselblad love it so much. Enjoying your videos and loving the photography, they are making me want to leave the city behind.
Smart move, I love my 50mm on the Hassy. As usual good work Paul.
Wonderful shots!
You are a genius in composition!!!!
Thanks for continuing your good work.
Grazie
The photo with the remains of the tree in the foreground, and the tree out in the lake plus the swan is stunning. I've got some of this film in my fridge. I've been waiting for the right time to use it . You've inspired me :-) 👍
Thanks matt
What a stunning location, That tree looks just like a peacock's feather. Lovely shots.
I really like the photo at 5:25, I like the shape of the tree's reflection in the water and its tones.
great shots. PanF in Rodinal 1 : 50 is my go-to combo.
Magical pictures!!!
Enjoying your new series with the Hasselblad. Keep it up.
Thanks Gene
Very very great place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Only one apreciation:Inst posible to put the the camera more to the left and take a foreground of the three washer,leaving the three between the island and the cape?,
Other theme.Ive two rolls of the Ilford 50 in the fridge ,waiting better ligths,how many up and down exposition support the fillm?,or you might to do a perfect shot?,and the reciprocity?
What a beautiful setting, indeed! Glorious!
You may have found a sweet spot. Location, vision, camera, film, all combining to make some of your very best images. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photographs. I agree with David Cordner; there is a tip of the hat to Michael Kenna in there.
Thanks Chris
Super interesting thanks for the contant and great feedback and toughts you gave after the shot. It helps me with my film phorograpy.
Thanks Erik
Super nice photos, magic place indeed! That tree is just amazing looking. Perfect fit for that film and camera combination.
You'll love the 50mm, it's one of my all time favourite lenses. I've had one for a couple of years, and I'm definitely never selling that one!
Great vid and great pics!
Beautiful images, Paul. Pan F is one of my favourite films, though I have only used it as 35mm on my M6 for portraits. Beautiful grain. I have a 120 roll waiting for me in the fridge and this episode has inspired me to shoot some landscapes with it.
Go Richard, and good luck
I just love a Hasselblad 500 I regret I sold mine. But will soon buy one again.
Art at it's finest, stunning images you have produced my friend!
Thanks John
outstanding mate pure magic
Thank you
Really enjoyed this
Yet another interesting, informative and relaxing video to watch Paul. I love the photos. I sometimes shoot Pan F in 35mm and love the absence of visible grain in smaller prints. I guess the sharpness in medium format must be amazing! Kind regards.
Thanks Ian
These are fabulous Paul. Could be your best work to date.
Thanks a lot David
Paul C Smith Photographer I have an old 500c/m with a few lenses. You’ve inspired me to use it again. thank you Paul.
Strong work love it
Stunning images Paul 👍🏻👍🏻
wonderful images!
Great video Paul. Beautiful compositions, as always.
Lovely tree and location with good results.
I'm 2 years late but I find the tree position against the dark island in the background a bit strange it's to one side. My immediate thought was you'd centre it a bit more or have the darker isle left of the tree and the darker hill on the right but what would I know 🙂
Also love the shot with the tree stump and swan!
Thanks Andrew
Beautiful images, Paul.
Thanks Jim
Absolutely gorgeous,so beautiful!
Cheers
Another fine set of images. You genuinely are enjoying medium format.
Also good to see you have GAS just like every other photographer I know.
Yep more GAS than most unfortunately
@@PaulCSmithPhotographer Lol. At least you are putting it to good use. So pretty sure your accountant won't be giving you earache.
Terrific photos Paul, love the long exposures with the 50mm and I especially like the ones with the150mm, I must save up for one with my Hasselblad, though increasingly hard to come by, especially one of the earlier Silver 150 mm Sonnar C’s in good condition, like you have
That 150 is great, shot film yesterday and left it at home and kicked myself.
Beautiful photos and a great new lens for your Hasselblad! I love that wide angle for landscape on medium format. And great compositions, too!
Good film😀
Really enjoyed those images, those ducks 🦆 added that extra element. What a serene scene
Possibly for me your nicest flight of pics.The big Hasselblad is a thing of great desire
Cheers Stephen
Inspiring
Love from Japan
I hope someday I could come to NZ and enjoy photographing!!
Thankyou
Beautiful outstanding Compositions Paul, with calm lovely results, for all images you shot that day. Also glad you got a hold of the Distagon 50 :) A suggestion if I may Paul? Use the pre-release button (to get the mirror up) before taking your shot some sec after, when using long exposure :)
Wildo thanks for the tip
Yet another great great video, and it's great to see that you're enjoying the Taupo area and the Blad. I miss using the 500 cm and those wonderful Carl Zeiss lenses.
What's next ... 4×5 ?
Maybe a darkroom lol
Pan F is a contrasty emulsion with a short straight section and abrupt toe and shoulder in its spectral response curve. The best way to deal with it is to rate it @ 25 or 32 and use a compensating developer to retain as much information on the negs as possible. The contrast can then be adjusted during the printing or scanning stage. Great photography BTW.
Great images Paul as always, by the way, I so enjoyed your book.....
Thanks Roy, glad you did
Those little canons are great. I still use my 100d and it takes great photos and videos especially in daylight.
Love the shots. Going out today with my new to me 4x5 to shoot and film a tree that has fallen
Awesome good luck!
Lovely photos
Great photos! Particularly that last one with the dark tree on the left and the light grey mountains in the back.
I had a feeling the 150 would find a wider friend sooner or later! As always very nicely done, love the aesthetic of the Ilford films/long exposures of the tree in the lake, especially the rippled reflections. Sorry to hear about the lens not surviving it’s first swimming lesson, but the camera did📸. Hope the socks were waterproof, I probably would have taken them off (barefoot probably works better if it’s warm, said the Florida man), nice little vacation spot you’ve found there!
Cheers John yea water is still a bit chilly, straight of the icy mountain
@@PaulCSmithPhotographer the high price of artistic expression!
Do you shoot pan F at box speed of 50asa? Sometimes I've had thin results and always go back to fp4. I do however use many cameras so perhaps shutters are not that accurate. I shot a roll of fomapan with a camera I had not used before. Took a big chance but I was blown away with the results. Every exposure bang on. I don't shoot fomapan 100 at box speed but at around 50asa and I'm using a tripod and very long exposures so speed does not matter for me.
Been a while since I shot Pan f but usually at 100
Great shot :)
Did you use an ND Filter and how did you meter the scenes. I didn't see that.
Nice images Paul
Let me be the first to congratulate you on 10k subscribers! It’s coming.
Yea thanks mate
For the 150, I would recommend a ring that converts it to 67mm. You can use it for the 80mm 2.8 as well, and the 67mm filters screw into the 50mm lens, but be careful with that one, since the actual thread is slightly smaller.
Amazing photos and as usual spectacular images! What tripod are you using for the Hassy?
Cheers mate, its a Manfroto tripod, forget the model, but one of the worst pieces of kit I have owned.
Paul C Smith Photographer Thanks for the reply. Duly noted, would you have a tripod that you recommend? I’m looking for one to use with my Hassy and other cameras
Not at the moment yet to find something that I would consider worthy of reccomendation
Hey Paul. Lovely video mate, and love the simplicity of these frames. Awesome work and nice to see you out and about enjoying Taupo. I returned from the south Island tonight and will give myself a few days off but we will try and catch up soon!
PS, this is a really cool tree... and te fact that you have it to yourself! = )
Regards
Ewan
Thanks Ewan, really looking forward to catching up, talk soon!
Love pan 50 .
Wonderful work again. There are a couple of these I'd buy prints of if they were put up for sale.
I liked most the 50mm long exposure shots, so dreamlike. About the composition of the single hill in the background of the tree in some pictures I'm not fully with you, somehow it's distracting from the clearness of the shot in my opinion. But thx for sharing your shooting and thoughts with us. Also liked to see your dog is doing fine and seems to have adapted to the new place - didn't see him for some time.
Thankyou I will agree with you here, need to be more discerning with composition when composing minimalists scenes, I thinl I was focusing too much on the tree and not paying attention to the composition of the background.
amazing pictures! but definitely recommend using the mirror lock up button for those long exposures so you do not get any camera shake!
Yep will be on to that next time
Really beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing them. Your long shots seem to be really long exposures. Are you using a neutral density filter and if so which one?
Yep, ND I used an old Hoya 9 stop on this stuff
I live this video !
I have the 500cm with the 80mm f2.8. At those longer distances, are you just setting it to infinite focus?
Hi Lance yea pretty much
Hi Paul, just wondering where you got your rodinal from in NZ ? Cheers
Hey mate one of my subs sent it from the States
@@PaulCSmithPhotographer lucky bugger !
Paul, your videos are not packed to gills with images and the measured conversation you provide with few stunning images raises the quality of your content in my opinion. Since you do a lot of work with B&W film, do you use yellow , red and orange filters with your M6 or Hasselblad ? Thank you
Thanks again, no I don't use any coloured filters when shooting film.
Lovely graphical images Paul. Good to see you have a second lens.
Have you noticed any latent image degradation with Pan F when the film is stored in fridge and developed long after exposure? I've read a recommendation for developing Pan F as soon as possible. Some have said it degrades quickly, even after two weeks. I have a tendency to collect exposed film in my fridge and develop it in batches later. It's like Christmas seeing the photos for the first time after several months.
Haven't really noticed, been a while now since I shot it.
Nice video. You should show how you meter the light.