Shoutout to tha beeeeees!

Ahahahahaha that is not a picture I had formed in my head, but I like the imagination there, imagine a bee with an rz photographing me while I photograph them, the ultimate portrait swap lol!

Ahh thank you Kenneth! I would looooove to have a chance to shoot Sonoran desert things someday, holding thumbs that the opportunity arises haha, and that perhaps there'll be a bee or two buzzing around when the time comes lol!

Ahaha I changed the title to have Rbee in it cus some people pointed it out and I remembered I made the pun before on IG and should've included it here! Great minds and all haha ;) Cheers Paul!

Thanks man! I can’t wait to see the super8 either haha, electrical engineer gpcy to the rescue!

Woaaaah they look amazing! It seems they’re mainly around in Eurasia, but getting a butterfly in flight shot could be a similar challenge to embark on!

@@willysheepskin Indeed, I'd love to see such a shot from you! And now that I think about it, if I get the chance, I should at least try to shoot a hummingmoth with my Bronica :)

Ahahah thanks Sreeku! I look forward to sharing it with you!

Ahaha I'm holding thumbs for a moment like that to happen to us both in the future still Jez! Finding cool old negs sounds really nice too, I like your optimism too haha!

A solid point! I like to think of all light as having certain subject matter that will work well in it, I reckon the thing with mid day light the way most people think of it is it's not just the angle that sucks but the brightness haha, so exposing for it crushes the shadows and makes things more contrasty than would be ideal for some!

Ahah RZ67 rain :') I'd set up a big net and just hoard them all for all eternity lol! Glad you enjoyed that story man, was a cool little interaction, and I'm super glad you like the photos and colors!

Woaaaaah I looked her up, her stuff is amazing, she does proper macro stuff! So sharp! So cool! Thanks for sharing that, I actually considered doing my masters at ECAL for a while haha, who knows maybe I still will!

@@willysheepskin you’re very welcome! and wow that’d be pretty cool! i just had an interview this wednesday for the foundation year in photography, don’t feel too good about it though…

Ahhh thanks a ton Gunnar, hearing that put a smile on my face! Always keen to bring the good vibes haha!

Thanks a ton Dylan! A few people pointed out the pun and I decided to change the title to include it haha, should've done it in the first place since I made the joke on IG before lol! So stoked that you like the images so much, what do you do for work that you get to photograph bees on a microscope?? Sounds awesome! I hope you have a bunch of fun trying to photograph some bees on film, at the very least you get to hang out and observe some nature which is always fun haha! Thank you for enjoying what I do, I hope to hear about a successful bee expedition on your part soon!

@@willysheepskin I started watching the video on my way home from work and finished this morning on my way to work so I thought the title changed but figured it was just me being exhausted hahaha I'm a research biologist at a natural history museum so I spend most of my time in summer doing fieldwork and collecting specimens for whatever research projects we have going on (usually pollinator related but not just bees also other pollinator species) and the off season doing lab work and other museum collection work. I'm thinking I'll pick up a 55 or 105 micro nikkor as they seem to still be relatively affordable and I'll let you know how it goes! Btw I was curious what you thought of ektar 100? I had thought about shooting it for a while but about two months ago I picked some up and just recently developed and scanned it and extremely happy with the colours it provides so far. Definitely a red cast but I like the saturation it provides in dark greens and blues as well.

Ahh thank you! It gets a bit frizzy sometimes but I do like that it has curls to it haha, glad you like the photos too! Now I know three germans that know what an RZ is ahah, you, the german lady and Maya lol!

@@willysheepskin ohh didn’t know that maya is german, wünsche euch beiden noch nen schönen tag 😄 (have a nice day you two)

PAIN!

Ahhh I feel you on the fp100 front, although I scored some a year or so ago and just blasted through it because I didn’t want to be too precious about it, although I’m jealous that you got to shoot Kodachrome! I sometimes get to scan old Kodachrome slides and the rendering of that stock is still unparalleled haha

Hell yeah! So rad that you're headed into spring now haha, things are getting colder here and the days shorter!

Thanks Eddie, glad you enjoyed!

Thank you! Will be keeping an eye out for one with a bee on going forward for sure haha!

Ahaha yes I love that pun! Might end up changing the title to that ahah

Bees are a fun way to want to pull your hair out while trying to make the macro moves lol! Glad you dig em Reimann!

Cheers Brent! I'm glad you think of that photo haha, I'm hoping to get something that surpasses it sometime in the future, if I could have the sharpness of the bee in the pink rose photo in this video combined with the scene of that orange one in the store then I'd be veeery happy lol! Greatly looking forward to sharing the super8, and glad that you enjoyed the story! Hopefully next time I manage to record a convo like that lol!

Free RZ next time haha! Glad you enjoyed the bees, they are truly awesome indeed! Cheers James!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Gemstones sound like some very interesting subject matter, might have to see if I can give it a go sometime haha!

Whaaat on earth is free hand reverse Macro? Sounds fascinating!

@@willysheepskin You take a lens, reverse it and hold it with your hand in front of the camera since you can't mount it [That's where free hand comes in] You can get reverse Macro Rings where you mount the lens reverse onto your camera from the filter thread so you don't have to free hand. Basically you lose infinity focus for close focus so any lens can be a macro but it works better the wider your lens. My 80mm 1.8 does nothing when reversed [Probably due to how the elements are designed] But generally you can get 1:1 with a reverse 50mm and sometimes even 6:1 if you get a 10mm lens

ahaha cheers Brendon! Gonna keep practicing that accent until I'm 100% authentic for some future trip to Germany with Maya lol! Glad you enjoyed the photos too, have been wanting to make a video including bees for ages now, can't wait to share the super8 stuff!

Exactly Justin! The images are a bonus indeed! And the macro focus bees are for sure my current biggest challenge when it comes to subject matter haha, there's just so much movement and precise timing needed, and the razor thin focus demands such intense concentration - and sometimes that doesn't even work lol! Crazy that it isn't the first time you've heard of someone dropping a camera out of a plane! It was my first encounter with the concept and now I'm fascinated haha, although I too sincerely hope it doesn't happen to either of us! I may be planning something where that is in fact a possibility in the not too distant future haha ;) Cheers as always!

Thank you Levoiar! I have noticed that folks are enjoying those, I've used them on certain projects when that look has been desired, worked on a thing a couple of years ago where all the video was actually shot on a terrible little digi point and shoot cus it had a very interesting look haha! I think I have one or two lying around, but I'm so keen on darkroom printing stuff I don't think I'd want to use them for anything besides video, if I'm doing stills I want to be able to get them in the darkroom haha! Stills from miniDV cameras and the like are really fun though, the quality is so terrible that it actually approaches being good again but from the opposite side of the spectrum looool

Congratulations!!!! Did you see Joel asking where you were cus he got here before you? Such a legendary comment, you being first is a staple around these parts!

Woaaaah that’s a sick idea Asher! Will see what I can find! I think the over exposed looking one is one of my favorites too, the texture of those flowers is so rad haha!

The pricing is so intense! It ends up costing like $200 to get the film have it shipped and devved and get the negs back from here :/ can choose between America and London for labs lolol

Thanks Bria! I filmed them on my Panasonic GH5!

Damn that's a brilliant idea actually, if I could get a solid fluid tripod to support the 500mm there's potential for some really nice frames!

@@willysheepskin Ah, you crazy man! Good luck if you do go for it (I struggle enough with digital and my 100-400mm, but critical sharpness isn't everything).

@@stephenhurling I'm thinking I'd shoot something at a high ISO so I could stop down the aperture a bit, cus the focus plane is razor thin on that 500mm haha, but I'm suuuper keen to give it a go if I can find somewhere with a nice amount of birds

@@willysheepskin Nice! (Yeah, again even on digital I use higher ISO than normal to stop down and keep shutter speed high - was doing it for puffin research this summer!) Looking forward to your large format, birds in flight photos as the mania develops! Also, any diving seabirds near you? Might be a good target for the Nikonos…

@@stephenhurling Woah Puffin research sounds awesome haha! Glad to hear that the higher iso maneuver is a pro strategy then! We do in fact have diving seabirds, at least I think they are, Cormorants? I feel like they dive, and if I could get some of that action on a Nikonos that'd be amazing haha! Cheers for the great ideas!

I will absolutely be uploading the super8 stuff once it's been sent off and developed! Gonna have a full video for it hopefully when I finally manage to finish shooting it, I'm so curious to see how it turns out too! (Also kind of nervous that I loaded it incorrectly or something and have spent 3 months not actually filming anything that I thought I was loool)

cool, can't wait to see it! I shot a roll of super8 last summer and loved the results. though waiting for the scan was kind of unnerving, because it was my first time shooting motion picture film, and the camera hadn't been properly tested... I uploaded the unedited roll on my channel, if you wanna take a look :)

Thank you Joshua! I've tried a couple of times to film color videos but always end up feeling like I'm just saying things that have already been said, perhaps someday I'll find the right way to describe it and then there shall surely be a color video!

Thank you kind fish! For color stuff I prefer having a lab do it because the machines they use are more consistent than I'd be able to manage temperature and timing wise, I have a Jobo that I could probably use but I just don't have the time these days! For black and white though if you have the time it's definitely worth learning to do at home, I do my own when I can find a moment to, otherwise I send it off to the lab lol! Investing in a good scanner of your own could be a great idea though if you can find one for the right price that has quality you're happy with, having control over the scanning process can be an important part of developing a look and understanding of the way you want your photos to turn out!

@@willysheepskin Thank you so so much William! You make some great points!

one advantage of home developing, esp. with Large format shots, as these are single sheets, is the total control over development, not having to "expose" all 10/12/15/24/36 shots in a roll (120 or 35) to the same chemistry, or development time, but in This genre of film photography, using 120 or 35 mm format; multiple shots done in one 'shot', does save chemistry, aka one tank for all shots!, and as a computer controlled machine develops and controls temperature, etc. you do get more consistent results, shot to shot, roll to roll; and as the machine is more expensive, with greater throughput, more expensive and consistent chemistry can be used, as you are filling a bulk tank.

I think I was at like f/16 a lot of the time to try deal with the brightness of the light! Was shooting portra 400 at box speed :) so glad you like the images!

You are the best videographer, what other videographer would intentionally film the parts between the relevant moments, that's real art right there

Ahaha I watched it so many times when I was younger, gonna have to check it out again sometime and see how it resonates now lol!

Ahahah you beat them here by 6 seconds! So rad that you noticed haha!

W joel lmaooo

I keep it in a Lowepro Protactic 350AW!

Thanks man!

Hello Simon! That is an excellent joke ahaha, I think I made it on one of my earlier IG posts of a bee photo lol! Can't go wrong with a little pun action - should put that one in the title tbh

We love dad jokes!

@@mayasarembock8739 thanks for your support Maya