>Loaded Kodak Portra 400 >Left the Iflord HP5 tag on the bag. You're a rebel, I see

I overexposed in the middle of the road once. Cops were called :(

I think the flash photo looked best at 800.

You should notice that are OVERexposing at 200 ISO and UNDERexposing the film at 800 and 1600 iso

Seriously though, I found it interesting how I preferred the tones when overexposing in natural light but then preferred the look of under exposing with the metz! P.S. lovely shots too

In the first round of shots I actually preferred the 400 and 800 shots for some reason.

Over the years I keep coming back to this video. It’s excellent education and sometimes I need a reminder!

I'm seriously liking your channel and your uploads! Very stylish aesthetically while delivering prime info. Thank you so much for sharing!

On the test with the flash, there's two components to the exposure: Ambient and flash. What you're seeing is the difference in colour temperature between the bulb and the natural light source, in conjunction with the under/overexposure characteristics of the film.. As a result of changing the iso setting, the camera has compensated by changing the flash power or shutter speed, which has changed the lighting ratio, which has upset the colour balance.

Still the best music on any channel on KZfaq. Incredible tracks and camera videos!

Awesome video. This channel is great. Top quality.

Is it bad if I watched this just to see how off I can be without ruining the photos?

Love your channel, subbed last summer and keep getting a flow of super quality content. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for being a really good source for film photography tips! -sincerely, a film photographer who can never find info about film anywhere

Simple, clear and well presented video. Thank you. Keep this great work up!

Hey Man! This is by far my favorite video to date, so simple and so deeply interesting. Thanks so much for sharing and be sure to stop by Toronto some time.

really enjoying this content. Keep them coming please! Can tell you guys work hard on it

It'll be cool to see you playing around capturing motion blur pictures! Always looking forward to your vids!

been practicing this technique lately, love the way the first shot looks at 200!! great vid

music is always so dope on your videos

Such a clean channel! Love it

Matt Day sent me! I'm an instant subscriber! You have a great channel!!

Great videosl! just got back into film after 6 years of shooting digitally ,looking forward to the transition after finding all the information on your channel.

Love at 200 and 800 is interesting too. Nice comparison, great video !

Awesome video my man! Love the vibes

All I can say is I wish I'd have seen this earlier !! I legit had a shoot I was so excited about in NYC and the conditions were as close to this as possible. Though it's still one of my favorite shoots (It was my first online mag feature!) I couldn't help but thinking i liked how my 1st roll of Portra looked and now I know why. I remember finishing up a roll of 160 and then switching to 400 and forgetting to change the iso. I was told to develop normally and so I did. The pictures didn't have enough contrast for me and now I know why.

Another cool video... I usually overexpose color negative...to me the color and images overall look better when I overexpose. But WOW, your photo one stop under looks really good to me. I'm going to have to try that. The little lack of detail, the subdued and grainy cast...all that added a nice bit of drama to your shot at 800...very nice! Anyway, thanks again for sharing George... really cool stuff.

I'm love with your videos ❤️

This video is perfectly timed! I just got my first pack of Portra 400 film :) I'm surprised with the look of the underexposed Portra @800 (1:24), it looks really awesome in my opinion yet from what I've heard most people overexpose Portra. I guess in terms of shadow detail it's not really ideal like you mentioned in the video.

Love that 1600 overexposed look I'm a big fan of the extreme vintage look

Great video. I always overexpose Portra 400 by one stop. It gives more pleasing colors, I think. I shoot BW at book speed most of the time

I've always wanted to do this experiment because I assumed it was better to overexpose. Turns out my preference was spot on. I personally much prefer the over exposed look although I was only going up to 2/3 over. Perhaps i'll try one or even two whole stops over on my next trip.

Thanks for all the in depth information it has helped me a great deal. do you ever use a hand held spot meter or is your phone just perfect and convenient?

opinions aside, i think the different looks which ever one you prefer is exiting. It just goes to show how many looks you can achieve.

Reaälly liked the style of these Videos

there is just something underexposed pictures that appeals to me// once again coOoOol video

Box speed is the best I think. I think washed out blacks are trendy right now so a lot of people would perhaps love the 1 stop underexposed look. I like to go box speed, or a very slight overexposure (like 2/3 of a stop)

Hey man, thanks for the video, could you do something similar for B\W as well? I never really seem to get the hang of it when trying to expose it correctly

I actually preferred the two portraits at 800 and 1600 iso The other two looked, I guess normal for a lack of better word, but the two darker portraits made me feel something But then again I've always loved darker pictures so I guess that's why I preferred the portraits you didn't like

I have to ask, I love the way your videos look. So film with a.... this calming relaxing vibe. Do you use filmconvert or...?

First of all, just wanna say thank u for the awesome content. I bought a contax g2 after watching ur video hahaha. I actually have a qn for the videographer/video editor. I am avideographer myself and have been wondering how to achieve ur video color. Do u use specific LUT/plug in to achieve a very filmic look on the video?

This was a useful video

great video thanks for sharing

Excellent video, George. Thanks for sharing. Question: when over and underexposing, how do you meter? Does following the in-camera meter yield the results shown in your video or is there a process you use that isn't shown?

Just discovered your channel and I love all your videos! Just curious, how do you afford and where do you buy all these cameras?

Dope video man

George nice vids, I'm digging them, also the music is the BOMB!!! What are the name of the cuts you're using in the vids?

i'm a big fan of one stop underexposing films!

I like 420

Thanks for the video, as always. What is that dope flash setup you're using? P.S. My lady is moving to London for school and she's a big fan of your work and all these great videos. If there's any way she could get in touch with you and learn about film photo around England it would be so great. Thanks much!

Amazing video. I want to ask u, all these shots developed normally like a exact box speed?

Love the muted underexposures

My favorite out of all the pictures was actually the 1600 of her on the bed. I think the underexposed green tones really worked well with it according to my stylistic preferences. However the flash photos still look best at box speed, and I think this is because lifted shadows only work when detail is softer and stays in the midtones.

Awesome. Could you try this with B&W please?

1:15 i love that gritty look

im here for the music

Wow. I've only just begun learning about shooting and exposing on actual film (mostly shooting 400) ... but I'm going to try ISO200 without flash and 800ISO with flash.

Thanks for another great vid - what iphone app do you use for metering?

fucks with this channel so tough.

+1 always.

Do you do any workshops for people (partially) migrating from digital to film? Your knowledge, and more important, your understanding of film belies your age, people at your level are usually a lot older than you. I think you'd make any course interesting, especially if you had Dan I think his name is. The two of you together compliment each other's style.

nice work

I've shot 2x 35mm Portra 400 and 1 120 portra 400, I'm always overexposing with 1-2-3 stops,. I like the more creamy look of the Portra which comes when overexposing it :)

When you lower the box speed to you still need to use your exposure adjustment. And does the exposure adjust only works when your in manual or it could also work when your at aperture mode?

Excellent video. Just a minor point, but the first scene on the bed was very high-key, so the camera would tend to under expose this anyway, much like a snowy scene. So over-exposing is going to give you a more natural look. For a true test of whether the pictures look better under or over exposed with that particular film it might have been better to choose a scene with a more even distribution of tones? Good test though. You’ve inspired me to replicate it myself.

Its sort of mind blowing that overexposing a film means not shooting at a higher iso but the opposite.

Hello. I am a amateur photographer who just start learning film camera. I was so impressed that you can make film photos into digital pictures in a clear image. I am wondering what kinda of scanner you use? I will be so appreciated if you can answer my question. :)

May you please do a similar video for over exposing black and white film? I feel like bloggers are all over the place on this topic and it would be helpful to see some simple visual comparisons.

Do the same digitally and you got either withe or black pictures... this is why I love Color Negativ Film so much!

How did you color grade this video? Great job by the way George!

Hey man, thank you for making this vid brother! this really helped me a lot. i’m really confused with the terms of exposing and pushing/pulling. I have a question, when you processed the film did you processed it at box speed or you compensated it? (for example: PORTRA 400 shot at 200, and processed at 200 OR 400?) the same question as to the underexposing.

Interesting experiment. I also prefer the 200 with the bed portrait, althought the underexposed image do have an interesting atmosphere. How did you change the exposure? Especially with the flash images? There results surprise me, since there is no real effect. That could be explained if you had changed the shutter speed to change the exposure. But if you change the aperture, then this is a quite interesting outcome.

Nice palace shirt

I actually really liked the 100iso with the flash, arty, in a good way.

can you do a video on buying and using expired film? What to look for and hidden gems that you can still find maybe?

Good films👍

Great video. What app were you using for exposure?

Did you guys get the film developed at the speed it says? Like 400 did you get it developed at 400 even if you shot it at 200 for instance? Sorry I was a bit confused on that. Love the video.

I have a question: did you keep the same f stop when you overexposed and Underexposed?

vid is great tho i think it's much better to flash the images on the screen for a much longer time while youre doing your commentary for us to completely absorb what youre talking about

I always shoot one step overexposed. Always! Only Ektar need true 100 and maybe RPX 25.

Hey George, idk if you rely to comments on your older videos, but I wanted to ask: I just recently got a Metz 45 and I was wondering if you used the auto mode during your shoot or if you used manual? I'm trying to figure out how to properly meter mine without a flash meter, hoping that the auto mode is reliable

great as always, safe for using my beat dude

So would you use your light meter at 200iso to overexpose or change it to the 200 setting on your slr?

How edit ur videos? i love the colors!

Of course underexposing film is never going to look better and that's completely normal. Contrary to digital, the common knowledge with film is that if your shadows are too dark, they're going to get grainy and muddy and you're not going to be able to pull details back from them, while highlights are highly salvageable. Only, Portra 400 is so good that you can actually get a workable negative even with -2 stops underexposure (again, other films don't do this) as long as there are highlights in your scene, if it's just dark, say goodbye to that negative. So while there's really no point in underexposure in film (unless you want darker highlights in a low contrast scene, perhaps) what's really interesting with film is to see what happens with overexposure, where I think Portra with it's amazing lattitude can even tolerate +3 stops overexposure quite well. Really an amazing film.

hey i loves this video man, one question, when overexposing portra 400 by one stop, do i meter for iso200 or 400?

so did you not change the shutter speed? you only changed the iso? and does that make any difference to just changing the exposure compensation dial to +1/-1 etc?

Maybe a stupid question to ask but I just brought a canon af35m and the ISO tab wasn't on so couldn't change it so the guy I brought it off is sending me another but I have already put film in it and taken a shot could I rewind the film and load it into the new one without exposing or damaging the film ??

Can i get just ask where that necklace is from? i really dig it and i've been looking for something similar :D

Hi! Do you use an app to get explicó settings on the camera ? if so , which one ?

Does an overexposed film need to be pulled (Portra400 at ISO 200 -> Pull 1 stop) in development to get the iconic Portra - Look?

rule of thumb, always shoot at half the rated speed, if 400 film is used then set camera iso at 200 and measure light in shadows. Perfect exposure 100% of the time

Just a newbie question. So if I'm using a 400 box-speed film, I should overexpose to 200 in good light and 800 in darker settings to get the best out of photos?

What's the light meter app you were using?

Hey random question to anyone! Are you able to just push or pull film whenever you want? I thought once you either push or pull you have to stick with that

The way you caused the different exposures was simply increasing the ASA on you light metre, so it's readjusted its exposure parameters, whilst you actually used a 400 one in your camera?

Hi, I was wondering how you recover the highlights in Portra 400? Wouldn't the scan make them pure white? I am quite confused how the process works

Im not sure if you're film developer can do it, but if I tell mine that I shot a lot of bracketed shots they can scan them accordingly and not in auto mode. For a whole year I was messing around under exposing to get moody shots, even bracketing shots and every time they came back they were exposed normally. All the bracketed shots looked pretty much the same. I was going crazy, until I found out the scanner just tries to expose everything correctly no matter if its bracketed or not.

Can you experiment with overexposing with the use of gels??

Hey George, I’ve been trying to get more into film, but I’m having a really hard time with this concept. I’ve tried to do more research, but I think it’s confusing me more. I was hoping you or anyone else who sees this comment could clarify some things for me. If I rate my Portra 400 at 200 to overexpose one stop, do I meter using 400 or 200? Also, at what speed should I ask the lab to develop my roll at afterwards? Thanks in advance.