Northern Lights timelapse - 4K
1:29
Solar Eclipse 2024 from Texas
8:51
Mamiya C330 with Kodak Portra 160
12:35
London with a fisheye lens
16:48
5 ай бұрын
Berlin on film
13:51
6 ай бұрын
(V1) Körning - Saab 99 drive
5:00
Three days in Armenia
25:36
11 ай бұрын
North Yorkshire Moors
22:36
Жыл бұрын
Which infrared filter?
27:43
Жыл бұрын
Godwick abandoned village
14:51
Жыл бұрын
North Wales
18:01
Жыл бұрын
El Hierro
35:12
Жыл бұрын
Hirzbach Waterfall
7:34
2 жыл бұрын
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@dalelewis62
@dalelewis62 27 минут бұрын
thanks, you have inspired me to take my fisheye out of the bag. You really some great shots. Thank You for sharing.
@jango71
@jango71 6 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 12 күн бұрын
Beautiful woodland. Impressive variety of shots with that camera - that’s definitely dedication!
@rossmansell5877
@rossmansell5877 21 күн бұрын
uM...uM...uM...uMMM🙄🙄
@brankobelfranin8815
@brankobelfranin8815 28 күн бұрын
Love it, I've been doing it myself with Mamiya C330
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 27 күн бұрын
Nice, glad to hear I'm not the only one 🙈🙂
@brankobelfranin8815
@brankobelfranin8815 27 күн бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography Keep it up, put some more clips about what you are doing.
@KhurshidsChannel
@KhurshidsChannel Ай бұрын
Amazing video, I really enjoyed it you captured the beatiful scenery. Liked 👍😄
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Thanks, glad you liked it!
@marimelbello2066
@marimelbello2066 Ай бұрын
Hello there James, very beautiful place and fascinating pictures you’ve taken there! It’s interesting how the pictures taken by film seems and feels more nostalgic than those ones taken with digital. Also, the whole video was very calming and peaceful, had a great time watching all throughout the vid!
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Thanks for watching, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Nostalgic is definitely one of the nice features of some of the film stocks :)
@billvinson7859
@billvinson7859 Ай бұрын
I got this from Mt Rainier, Washington State. It was the best Northern Lights I ever saw. We were all lucky to see and record it. ❤
@TarrelScot
@TarrelScot Ай бұрын
Interesting location. I found your vid from your post on DP Review. May I ask what time of year you were there? I know you said Autumn but which month? Thanks in advance.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Thanks for watching - the trip was over the last week of September (I actually flew home 1st October I think)
@TarrelScot
@TarrelScot Ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography Thanks for the swift reply James. I’d considered travelling to Tenerife or La Palma for astrophotography but the thought of the crowds put me off. (Most of my work is done in the far northwest of Scotland where I live, so I’m a bit spoilt with remoteness and having the place to myself!) I did go to Fuerteventura a couple of years ago, which held a lot of promise, but we had Calima for the whole week we were there, so the night sky was a write-off. I think it affects the eastern islands more than the western ones. El Hierro certainly looks promising,and I guess you had good clear air after that storm passed through.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
@@TarrelScot I've not been to La Palma- Tenerife has the advantage of being high up (you'll see I stayed in the hotel up on the volcano which was much quieter than the resorts on the coast... but you do get tours coming up for night-sky-tour trips which were annoying, perhaps don't set up in the popular viewing spot! On El Hierro I had hoped to get the milky way behind the lighthouse in the south-west- you're obviously low down but if the sky is clear it would make a great shot. I'm considering re-visiting, maybe next year - I can't hit a cyclone twice, right? :)
@TarrelScot
@TarrelScot Ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography Hopefully not!😀 Thanks for the tips. Have you thought about the Azores for Astro?
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
@@TarrelScot I've not ever investigated there - one to add to the list. I also fancy Madeira as the landscapes look good for daytime shots as well
@QuietCornersPhotography
@QuietCornersPhotography Ай бұрын
Awesome location! The Wash is on my wish list of places to visit
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Thanks, good luck when you get chance to explore 👍
@280bunny
@280bunny Ай бұрын
Very interesting to see the difference between digital and film. A pleasant walk and some nice images!😀
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Thanks, glad you liked the shots - it's a nice quiet spot 🙂
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals Ай бұрын
Great video and shots. It’s a foreground that’s now definitely on my list. There are a few interesting looking areas to the west of Kings Lynn by the Wash that I’m hoping to scout. I can imagine exactly what it was like when you scared those bats / birds / killer squirrels.🐿️
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Look forward to seeing what you come up with - there's some more things out towards the firing ranges I think (control tower type stuff) but not sure how accessible they are...
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals Ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography that's exactly where I had in mind, together with seeing if there's any residual infrastructure around the trial banks, which i think were part of a tidal energy project.
@discoverianalvarez
@discoverianalvarez Ай бұрын
Hey, this is so cool. Thanks for showing us how to get started with this technique
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
thanks!
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals Ай бұрын
Enjoyed that, James. Film using a TLR definitely looks like an immersive and cathartic process - completely alien to me and not sure I need the extra complexity, but very enjoyable to watch. “The algorithm is a mystery”: never a truer word spoken.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Yeah, I do enjoy the slow-process of it. Apparently some folk used to shoot weddings with them, no idea how! As for the algorithm- my IR Processing one has almost 46k views now, most of my other videos are between 50-300 views. Go figure!
@krzysztofmoranda
@krzysztofmoranda Ай бұрын
Super. Dziękuję James 🤝
@RobsDIY
@RobsDIY Ай бұрын
awesome video, ive noticed with my edit, following your video, there is a slight color cast still of the chosen colour ive gone for is there a way to offset/remove that?
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography Ай бұрын
Kinda depends - sometimes I've wanted to get rid of a remaining pink tinge on leaves, and do that by adjusting the red and magenta HSL settings in lightroom to lower the saturation to 0. Latest updates to lightroom have some cleverer colour adjustment options but I've not had chance to fully explore those yet...
@neilpiper9889
@neilpiper9889 2 ай бұрын
I have a cds porro on my C330s. I have an 80 mm f2.8 and a 65 mm F 4.5. It took me ages to figure out how to use it.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 2 ай бұрын
How do you find the porrofinder? I heard they are quite dark to look through but maybe it's not too bad?
@neilpiper9889
@neilpiper9889 2 ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography It's bright and easy to focus. You need a side grip to use it.
@1redgate8
@1redgate8 2 ай бұрын
Looking to get one myself!
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 2 ай бұрын
It's definitely a bit of an "event" using it
@SKY88LOVE
@SKY88LOVE 2 ай бұрын
đẹp quá !
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 2 ай бұрын
Cảm ơn!
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 2 ай бұрын
Just insanely beautiful. What a night. 🤩
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 2 ай бұрын
I won't feel so bad if they no-show in Iceland!
@jandanko974
@jandanko974 2 ай бұрын
love the video, great music! makes me want one.
@2niluny
@2niluny 3 ай бұрын
Great photos!
@2niluny
@2niluny 3 ай бұрын
Gorgeous photos! Can I ask what were your settings for the twin peaks shot?
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
Glad you like the photos! Settings for that were pretty standard stuff- 20mm lens at F8, 1/15 second. I also used a polarising filter I think to help reduce reflection on the water.
@2niluny
@2niluny 3 ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography thanks! I’ll have to remember to pack my P filter before my trip
@cillin4821
@cillin4821 3 ай бұрын
what brand of IR filters you chose? nice to get a view of what brand is best....thanks for video. Have conversed DSLR to full spectrum and got step down/up rings to use a 72mm 720nm filter. looking forward to some sun so i can get out and take the shots
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
Looking back through my Amazon purchases, it's a variety... I have a few Green.L brand, a couple of Hoya, a Neewer... I probably just pick up what's in stock and reasonable money at the time!
@thomasgrant1850
@thomasgrant1850 3 ай бұрын
Great video, im a photographer myself who has spent an awful lot of time at the coast this last year. Im about 25 mins from sheringham. Great work
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking us along, James. Sorry you didn’t get clear skies but amazing you still managed to get a very memorable shot at totality. Time to start planning for Spain!!
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
Indeed, it's a way off but I'm starting to think about what might the best area...
@280bunny
@280bunny 3 ай бұрын
From my point of view of you showed some interesting images, the thing is you made the effort, experienced the eclipse and came away with recorded memories! Well done, much enjoyed!😀
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
This is true - if I'd not gone, I'd *definitely* have seen nothing! Thanks for watching
@unknownartdivision
@unknownartdivision 3 ай бұрын
They put an empty spool just in case? if it's the case, really nice thing from them!
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
No, an actual roll of film (it was a little expired, but yeah, nice!)
@iNerdier
@iNerdier 4 ай бұрын
You got more mid tones than I ever did at 400. I bought a brick of this for cheap and ended up rating it at 80 and developing for half time in xtol 1:1 to have any greys at all. Weird film with specific uses I think.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Interesting - you'd think your technique would have reduced the contrast if anything. I did read somewhere it's actually identical to the slower film just with a higher box speed and appropriately adjusted development times, but who knows!
@iNerdier
@iNerdier 3 ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography Sorry, that's what I meant. I only got acceptable contrast at 80, at 400 it was far too extreme which is why I was surprised you got usable results there.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 3 ай бұрын
@@iNerdier ahh, I'm with you now. No idea why, I didn't do an awful lot of work in Lightroom to get detail back; perhaps I was just lucky with conditions and lighting somehow 🤷‍♂
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 4 ай бұрын
Excellent, video, James - really enjoyed the relaxed pace. And fantastic images. Again - film’s a mystery to me!! Excited for your eclipse trip. 😎
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Thanks! I was pleased with some of these, think the nice light helped :)
@strongislanduk
@strongislanduk 4 ай бұрын
Awesome set of images from that walk!
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Yeah, I was quite pleased how they came out- some moreso than others of course!
@280bunny
@280bunny 4 ай бұрын
Interesting videos of the 330, you say that you develope your own B&W, where do you get your colour film developed? Do you do your own scanning? Pleased to hear that you are on the road to recovery!😀
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'm currently settled on Analog Wonderland for development, and I "scan" at home using my DSLR with a macro lens and a lightbox / frame mount. I then use NegativeLapPro in lightroom to process the images
@280bunny
@280bunny 4 ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography would be great to see a video post covering the process!😀
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 4 ай бұрын
What an interesting camera! Great results as well. Hope you’re feeling better and look forward to your Romania trip.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Feeling better than I was... 2 weeks to Texas so fingers crossed!
@strongislanduk
@strongislanduk 4 ай бұрын
Photos have come out great, always wanted to head up tot the Norfolk coast
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
There's loads of lovely spots- I only live 40 minutes from many of the villages, really need to get up there more often!
@Zetaphotography
@Zetaphotography 4 ай бұрын
Nice job. I haven’t seen any Mamiya videos in a long while. I had a C220 and considered getting the C330. Don’t know the difference to be honest. Found a bust Yashica MAT 124G and sent it to Mark Hama. Dot took 4 months but it works
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment- I think the C220 requires cocking the shutter manually (the C330 does it when you wind on), but has the advantage of being lighter (the C330 is a hefty thing!) - I mainly grabbed it as they're the cheaper end of "pro" TLRs as far as I can tell - snazzy Rollei's and stuff go for double the price! Looking forward to trying it out some more.
@jamesprivet
@jamesprivet 4 ай бұрын
Great video, most helpful, thank you. So was the main image in the thumbnail of the tree by the river done on camera with full spectrum conversion and then you used a 720nm filter on the lens?
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 4 ай бұрын
Yes, that's right!
@MegaNomad1968
@MegaNomad1968 5 ай бұрын
I took my fisheye lens to London on my first trip and was really pleased with the results. Worked well on leake street and in Kew Gardens. Look forward to see all the shots. Jon w
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 5 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'll have to add those to the list for if I go back, I reckon Piccadilly Circus could work well too...
@MegaNomad1968
@MegaNomad1968 5 ай бұрын
@@JamesBillingsPhotography yes , good after rain to capture reflections , although late night crowds can be a problem.
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 5 ай бұрын
That was fantastic. I’d say the fisheye is a big success - genuinely new perspectives on some classic views. Great video as well. 👌
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 5 ай бұрын
Thank you! I wasn't entirely sure how it would turn out ahead of time, but some of the images worked well - I did have to recompose on more than one occasion after spotting my feet and legs entering the frame!
@280bunny
@280bunny 5 ай бұрын
Really great video, and some iconic shots! Images with the fisheye certainly add a different perspective, and are certainly not C??P😀
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 5 ай бұрын
Thanks! Yes, variable results but I was pleased with quite a few of them!
@conforzo
@conforzo 6 ай бұрын
I think I'll complse music to this
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 6 ай бұрын
Send a link if you do, would be good to see
@nightscapejournals
@nightscapejournals 6 ай бұрын
I think that’s one of your best videos, James. Really enjoyed it. Loved the nice tones before showing the photographs and the spirit of Kraftwerk in the soundtrack! Great images too - well done for developing those monochromes yourself - I’d be terrified of something like that.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 6 ай бұрын
Many thanks Paul- my recording was all quite haphazard so I was happy how it came out in the end - I enjoyed tinkering in Resolve to make the B-Roll look like it was shot on cinestill, so I'm glad you spotted the result!
@arthurdoyle8533
@arthurdoyle8533 6 ай бұрын
I got recommended for this astonishing video. Thx so much, rlly like that. Especially that shots
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
@280bunny
@280bunny 6 ай бұрын
Thanks, Berlin certainly looks like a great place to visit, very atmospheric images, both colour and b&w!😀
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 6 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'd be tempted to go back for another visit- glad you enjoyed the photos!
@bladerunner.1984
@bladerunner.1984 6 ай бұрын
Have you tried using normal ND filters? I remember back in the days when I had a full spectrum Canon, I accidentally left ND filter on a lens, and interestingly, it gave me a nice mix of IR and visible light, straight out of camera on a jpeg. Essentially it looked like a typical false color infrared with white leafs and grass, but with a blue sky, out of the box. I suspect that the sky was maybe blue due to some UV light passing as well. Anyways, it was nice. I think it was 4 or 6 stops UV, don't remember exactly.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 6 ай бұрын
I've not tried that- but I guess it makes sense. I once photographed a friend wearing sunglasses in IR and the lenses looked clear, so I guess the IR gets through but visible is blocked. Nice suggestion!
@jamesmlodynia8757
@jamesmlodynia8757 7 ай бұрын
😂 I purchased this lens for my Nikon ZF, its the same version the MKIII, I took some test photos yesterday and two things were suprising, first photos were taken in a park that I walk our dog in and the steam flooded a section that contains some tall trees, the morning that I used the lens, the water had receded some and because of the low temperatures the water had partially froze, I did not see any distortion on the outer edges of the photos that were taken from f 8 to f 11, it was sharp across the frame and for a manual focus lens, focus is acquired very easily. Later in the day I had to do a grocery run and across from the parking lot is a river that flows under a roadway, before it goes under the road it has about a 6 foot drop, the sun was right above the river and the sky was totally clear so there was a lot of light reflecting off of the water. I would not have photographed this area at this time of day but I wanted to see if their was any lens flair and how much of a sun star I would get. I shot from f8 to f 11 their was no lens flair and the sun had been rendered with ten perfect points in a sun star. This is not a fast lens being f 4.5 but it is small, fits perfectly with the ZF and a perfect landscapes lens where you normally shoot at apertures that give you maximum depth of field.
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 7 ай бұрын
Glad to hear you're enjoying it too - still have mine!
@howard51723
@howard51723 7 ай бұрын
One of the finest cars ever built, I had the privilege of owning one years ago, I wish I had it now
@user-lr8ct1hy5p
@user-lr8ct1hy5p 8 ай бұрын
Thanks. Could you talk about infrared video?
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 8 ай бұрын
A good question - I've not tried. My initial thought is that video won't have the same amount of data as a raw photo (it's more akin to a jpg) so large adjustment to white balance won't be possible.
@cameraprepper7938
@cameraprepper7938 8 ай бұрын
I have done Macro Photography since 1980 and used a lot of different Macro Lenses, I have the Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 110mm 2.5 which I use now and I can very highly recommend it ! Remember that a Macro Lens can be used for any kind of Photography (like a Swiss Knife). I never use artificial light in the nature. I have seen many reviewers criticize the focus throw of the Voigtländer Macro Lenses, but the 110mm have only 90 degree turn from infinity to 80 cm, which not is lot and in the "normal" range of most photography, in fact many macro Lenses have too short a focus throw, so focusing in the "normal" range can difficult. For macro photography is is good with a long focus throw !
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 8 ай бұрын
Glad to hear you've good experiences with it too!
@myfavouritelee
@myfavouritelee 8 ай бұрын
Really good shots mate. That one across the subway platform at 9:16 in the video was perhaps my favourite. I do enjoy low light photography without a flash. :)
@JamesBillingsPhotography
@JamesBillingsPhotography 8 ай бұрын
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the shots! I'm a fan of low light myself, especially in cities. The lights and colours make things much more interesting :)