Ilford FP4 landscapes | Bodmin Moor

[@danielcods]

Love the shots, FP4 is my favourite B&W film stock.

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks Daniel I’m really pleased with the results. I will definitely be using FP4 more regularly. All the best Tom.

[@lensman5762]

Very nice indeed.

[@tomwhelan]

Thank you 🙏

[@raphanusraphanistrum]

Very nice! Good job!

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks Rafael 🙏

[@jlaw8882]

Enjoying these outings with you Tom. Great to see the different frames of the same shot and the effect of the filters.

[@tomwhelan]

Thank you it’s really appreciated 👍

[@snootboot54]

I just clicked on this video as it was in my recommended feed because I was bored. I have very little interest, knowledge, or background in photography, yet I watched the whole thing enthralled. You have a very relaxed and soothing camera presence, in the sense that watching this video felt a lot like watching Bob Ross paint, and I immediately subbed. Well done mate! Keep up the great content. :))

[@tomwhelan]

Wow that’s great to hear thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. All the best Tom.

[@acecreates]

Another great video, Tom! I don't mind FP4. Its got a lovely fine grain to it. I loved those earlier shots, the denuded tree branches looked like skeletons coming out of the water.. loved the one of the solitary tree too! Ps you have a cute cottage! Great video, as always!

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks very much Pete, I’m definitely going to shoot FP4 more often I really liked the results from it and it does well with long exposures. All the best Tom.

[@acecreates]

@@tomwhelan I think when you've got a nice bright day you can't beat it.

[@Hudson_Swan]

Hi Tom. Colliford Lake is on my doorstep and I visit this location quite a lot. I was there a couple of weeks ago making a video for my channel and the water level has receded quite a lot since you filmed this. If you come back here, just be aware that the ground can be very dangerous and suddenly give way beneath you leaving you stuck knee deep in mud!

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks Hudson that’s really good to know I thought it felt a bit strange to walk on. Great video you’ve done on colliford I see what you mean about the water levels it’s definitely been a very dry summer. Many thanks Tom.

[@257squadron]

Lovely images Tom. Do you have a set development regime/product ? Keep em coming!

[@tomwhelan]

Thank you, I’ve been developing in Rodinal 1:25 @ 20 degrees recently and I’m really happy with the results. Many thanks Tom.

[@257squadron]

@@tomwhelan nothing wrong with rodinal. I work for silverprint and we’ve started stocking Bellini products. The boss has given me a bottle of their RDL dev, which is the same formula to trial. I’ll give it go at 1:25 and see how it goes.

[@tomwhelan]

@@257squadron Good luck hope you get some excellent results 👍

[@alfredanheier4779]

Stellar work as always, Tom. I'm curious about the video logging though. Do you have someone help you, or do you plant the camera and then stage your approach? And there is drone footage as well. Anyway, I think the first shot of the lopsided tree is my favourite.

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks Alfred all the camera work is done myself so there’s a lot of setting up and walking back to get the equipment. Thanks for the positive feedback, many thanks Tom.

[@alfredanheier4779]

@@tomwhelan Wow, that seems to be a lot of additional work and staging. Kudos to your patience.

[@Astr0Bot]

Great work, Tom. I always am pleased to see another video of yours posted. Question: how do you calculate the exposure time when stacking a 10-stop ND with a red filter? I use an app ("Light Meter - Free" on Android) to calculate when I use the 10-stop ND but am unsure how to further calculate with a red filter on top of it. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks very much.

[@tomwhelan]

Thanks for the positive comments it’s really appreciated. I do a meter reading with the red filter on its own as I can do a spot meter reading through the red filter. I then calculate the exposure from that of 10 stops for the ND filter, also don’t forget to add time for reciprocity failure when dealing with long exposures. There are lots of charts online for different films and there reciprocity times. I hope this helps, many thanks Tom.

[@Astr0Bot]

@@tomwhelan It does - thanks so much for the quick reply! I look forward to the next one - cheers!

[@edmoore]

@@Astr0Bot Just to slightly expand on the above, because 'spots' are a logarithmic unit, you can add them together (rather than multiply or do anything else complicated), so for example if you have a filter that takes one stop off (half the light) and a filter that takes 4 stops off (1/16th the light) you don't have to do any reasoning about 'the filter that halves the light is used in with a 4 stop filter so maybe that's 8 stops?' or anything else like that, can can just add them (1 stop + 4 stop = 5 stop).

[@pierrez8455]

Hi. What is your camera? Thanks.

[@tomwhelan]

The camera is a Mamiya Rz67. Many thanks Tom.

[@pierrez8455]

Ahhh. It's me: thanks ☺