I absolutely love your work and you way of thinking. I'm a portrait photographer myself and I am really bored by the usual film photography channels on KZfaq: same format, same photos that convey absolutely no emotion whatsoever. I really don't understand the purpose of shooting pieces of buildings and bad street photography. Technical info in these videos are pretty decent but they're just that: technical info about cameras and films. They're not about capturing something precious. Seeing you working, I'm like "this is exactly what I think photography is meant to be." There is an intention, not random images of meaningless things. Oh and this bad habit they tend to have to say a photo is "interesting"... I think that's what you say when you can't find ANYTHING interesting in an image. Photography is meant to be beautiful, or even really ugly, to remember a moment, a place, or a person. Not to shoot a door knob during the golden hour to waste a roll of expensive film. Even if you make a video of you shooting the knob and use lofi hip-hop as your background music.

I love the first shot of the flowers in your kitchen. The hint of atmosphere was fantastic on that honestly and gave the flowers enough room to breathe and really gave it a lovely feel of it being a classic still life.

The ol 42 minute narration without recording. Always a fun one 🙂 Lovely portraits i actually like the slightly underexposed one quite a bit. This book is going to be so damn good.

I drove through here every 2 weeks to see my parents. Love it

Maaaate. Just tripped into your languid, soft and engaging world. What a treat. 2 films in, and loving every second. Fine work and delivery is so watchable. Got lots of viewing time to look forward to. Hello from the south east coast of england. Keep it up pal 👊🏽

I always thought seeing someone shoot the loss of our midwest farms would be historic!

dang the flower photo!

Those flowers on Ektar look incredible. I have a whole new respect for large format photographers who nail the focus like you did here. On top of all the things that go with shooting film tilting and shifting to get focus seems so tough. Lovely work man!

Good job. The fact that you went back to re-shoot speaks *volumes* about your level of commitment. .. and see? It paid off. Bravo.

Not sure why Ektar is getting so much hate but this video was great in showing how good it can be! Can't wait for the book bro~

Thanks Bryan!

Good work Bryan and you've encouraged me to break out the Ektar again.

Your face after info about no-recording. Priceless. But I did the samee a couple of times.

I love those initial photos starting at 4:22 timeline! Later on, to have a person sit and use large format camera movements to get different parts of the body in focus shows a LOT of expertise at using the large format camera. You are no noob my friend but one of the better exponents of large format photography that I can see anyway. I know you can see all the little failings in your images because you made them. But for us viewers your photographs are outstanding. Long live the large format camera!

Amazing portraits. Great video as usual. Ciao, Rosaria

Really appreciate your style for interviews, the atmosphere and context added to a conversation through just a small vignette is really beautiful and a great workaround for filming a shaky talking head. Always so fantastic Bryan!

Appreciate the cut scenes in your car specifically the audio changes in the music, nice work!

Amazing work as always! Thanks for sharing.

The sound editing was fire! Added another layer to your already superb (yes superb!) videography and storytelling.

I love Ektar. One of my favorite stocks. First medium format stock I ever shot back in the day.

People who hate Ektar 100 don't know that Photoshop has a slider for the cyan channel.

Great work, reminds me I need to order some Ektar film...

I see a byan birks video uploaded. I press play

Great video. I love your photos and the moving images taken through the windscreen are very evocative. Good choice of music as well.

Nice shots. As primarily a landscape shooter, I love Ektar. Almost slide film colors but with dynamic range to boot....Half of the people who hate Ektar think the reds pop too much. These same people are almost always overexposing it by 1-2 stop.... If you look at the Kodak data sheet for Ektar you see that it actually builds up reds the slowest, so any over exposure on Ektar makes the reds more and more saturated and vibrant.

Another wonderful video, thank you so much Bryan for doing what you do and sharing with us.

Not pressing record … I have only 3 videos out until now … and that happened to me 2 times already. 🙈🙈🙈 I feel you!

Loved the video! Watching your videos lately has inspired me to start shooting 4x5!

Your video style is really hitting a stride. Well done. Nice photos too. Can definitely see growth.

Class, as usual.

I really like the three portraits of the son, and interesting considerations about the look. Thanks Bryan

7:35 That is a the coolest sweater color I've ever seen, I need to find a sweater in that color ahah! Also you stay nailing focus these days man it's both inspiring and intimidating me for when the time comes to shoot some large format stuff haha. Beautiful photos as always, and a lovely journey of a video once more

Love your videos buddy!

I bought the book after watching this video! That project is amazing!

IDK what people are talking about , Ektar is fantastic AF

Great portraits Bryan, thanks for the walk through process. Re; Ektar, shot it once, didn't hate it...😀

Epiс from the first second

Team Ektar! Beautiful shots man :)

Ektar is an amazing film

Ahhh the petunia carnage! That looks like such an interesting book, I was reading about it on Nowhere Diary and the vividness of the images looked so surreal!

Man, really great video Bryan. I've been watching Soth's magnum course the last week or so and between that and your videos it's got me itching to pull the trigger on some C41 4x5 and hitting the road. One question for you -- I've never played much with movements when shooting 4x5 portraits, did you go to any particular place to learn about those or just experimentation? Thanks dude, come down to Nashville and let's shoot sometime.

I go back and forth with Ektar, sometimes the colors seem a bit too vibrant to me. Never thought it was so bad to outright hate the stock though. Great video yet again man

I dont know what's better, the still images or the moving images.. What the heck did you shoot this on ?! lol.

Nice portraits. I didn't catch whether you're still working with the Speed Graphic with the view screen fixed, or a different camera.

wow! your video footage looks very nice! What camera do you use for video? The Photos are very beautiful!!!

hey bryan not sure if you did a video about this but where did you buy your 4x5 camera and wondering where you found all your cameras ?

Do you think you'd have successfully sold yourself to get those folks to move their cars out of your shot?

Video was good 👍 Liked the grain tower and red store image which I seem to remember seeing you look at before. I think nine shots is a pretty good days effort way more than I typically do.

Your intro song is lovely. Who is the artist?

I'd be curious to know what f stops you are using when you are photographing your portraits. You talk a lot about focusing and depth of field. Having the f stops would help put it all together.

20$ probably Nick was in this car;)

This is just a tribute for unrecorded story ;))

Are you ever worried about somebody finding your channel and being upset that their images are being shared online? This is something I hear could be problematic since people think you stand to gain significantly monetarily, and will pursue action to get some of that perceived financial gain, even if it doesn’t exist.