Photography On Location: The Pallet Yard + Kentmere 400 Film

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VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
Hey, folks. It’s time for one of them photography on locations. This time I’m photographing the wonder and glory of a pallet yard in Los Angeles. Yessir, this is the kind of thing a photographer dreams of shooting someday. What’s that? You want to shoot Yosemite or Mesa Arch or the Grand Canyon? Well GET IT OUTTA HERE. Not in my house, kid. Ugly industrial photos or nothing.
I’ll be breakin’ out ol’ reliable for this one - my Shen Hao TFC 617-A with some Kodak Portra 160 film. That’ll be for the main event. Then I’ll put some miles on my lovely Fujifilm GA645Zi.
But wait a minute…what’s that? No. It can’t be. gasp Why, yes it is! That’s Ilford Kentmere Pan 400 film in 120 format! Truly unbelievable.
…yeah Ilford sent me some film before they officially released it. I shot one roll. Not enough to make a full judgement call on it, but hey, at least I’m trying something new for a change. Will it replace my beloved Kodak Tri-X? Well you’ll just have to watch the video to find out! Or continue reading, because I’m about to give you the answer right here. You ready?
The answer is no.
Kentmere’s great and it’s super affordable, but I don’t take kindly to change. I gots the films I likes and I likes to keep ‘em that way.
Anyway, enjoy the video!
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[@fgsz291]

Man, I didn‘t expect to get an existential crisis over wooden pallets

[@MWigforss]

Based!

[@paulscottfilms]

that sort of collapse into visual reality thing is normal here

[@ziggy149]

"I guess the next time you see me, I'll just be pulling up on the lotalright - we're here." such understated brilliant humor.

[@JudeStreicherPhoto]

Your ability to tell a story and inspire is second to none. Keep 'em coming!

[@ckronauer]

Once again, I really like the fact that you choose to follow the less-beaten path. The subject matter that many, if not most, would pass up because it is not glamorous or does not have a shock value. Your 6x17 series, to which this is a great addition, is sublime and thoughtful. Desert, urban landscape, the lost Taco Bells; all exceptional-both the topics and the way you have presented them. I think what you are consciously or unconsciously sharing with us is a deeper way of seeing. Slow down, think about what it is that you are trying to achieve from the image, and then execute with confidence.

[@SargePfeffer]

Hey Nick! These 'On-Location' always inspire me, I loved the close-up shots of the dials on your equipment as you fiddled with them to take the picture. Also your philosophical assessments are always spot on haha

[@AldermanFredCDavis]

LOVE when you take us location scouting and shooting with you. Also, LOVE that you explain what draws you to a scene, location, or image. Similarly, I have always been drawn to shooting abandoned industrial buildings. I think, "What was the last day here like?" "Who were the people who worked here?" "Why did this place go out of business?" "Whose dream died here?" etc.

[@extremelydave]

Well Mr photo man, I think your picture was downright cool. You nailed the composition and exposure as far as I can tell. The only problem I see is that you WILL require a wide format book to present the pair of photos side by side. I, for one, would like to see that book come out in my lifetime (I'm an old codger kinda guy) so don't take too long on getting it published. Keep you KZbin mojo workin' and hopefully see you again soon!

[@RossJukesPhotography]

I've been pre-visualising buying this book!!

[@ReimannPembroke]

That 6x17 of the palette yard is maybe one of my favorites you have taken on your channel! So well balanced and great idea to get the little canyon through the middle. So well done!

[@williamgustavsson9404]

Stellar photography, as always. Can't get enough of photography on location!

[@timschaefer86]

I absolutely adore the pallet photo. What a capture.

[@cliftonwhittaker260]

Years ago I had a client who manufactured wooden pallets. Log trucks brought him the raw material (logs); he cut them in his sawmill; cut the pallet boards and skids; and nailed them together. He only used low-grade trees that were not suitable for more sophisticated products. Here's something else: wooden pallets might all look the same but they are not the same. They are made to support different types of loads and the skids are spaced differently to accommodate different types of loaders. So... maybe there is even more to this picture than you realized, Nick. Do you want to go back and talk with the owner of these pallets to get more detail and possibly even expand your philosophy? It might be a picture worthy of additional consideration. I know I like it.

[@philwest3511]

Its more to do with the usage and where the pallet can or not go… the ‘chemical’ treatment boils down to 4 common types: HT - heat treatment MB - methyl bromide DB - debarked KD - kiln dried Great shot though reminds me of the visual in my mind I pass on a certain train I take in Spain of shipping containers

[@trappedindc8678]

RPT bags and accessory pouches, lens and film holders etc. Still the most comfortable, well thought out and functional large/medium format photography system ever made. I have 4 of them

[@dandog77]

I love the subtle Reno 911 reference. Great photos too!

[@tangomike1306]

Shiver, that Cavemanthought was deep ...

[@vincentlamoureux422]

Loved the diatribe on wooden pallets and the photographic journey that came with it!

[@lloydrvn]

Inspirational, philosophical, and goofiness (13:26 😂), Nick offers it all. You continue to be you, sir. You are a gem. Thank you for putting these videos out to fill the empty void in our lives.

[@only-stardust]

The 6x17 shot is gorgeous Nick. Your conditions and composition are just perfect. Looks a Hiroshi Nagai but pallety.

[@haimtoeg]

Always enjoy the 6x17 videos and look forward to your panorama book.

[@phototopics1156]

I couldn't help zeroing in on your Airguide weather station as soon as it came on screen. I have the same one...my parents bought it for me back in the '60s. Didn't think I would ever see another one!

[@cfwheezy]

Ive been in a photography slump lately. Lots of family stuff going on and my Cystic Fibrosis is now acting up again. However... Watching your video is inspiring. Time to shake it off and just get out there. Thank you.

[@Invictus13666]

Love the screen name 👍🏽 Sorry it’s acting up. I’ve known a couple people with cf. sucks.

[@cfwheezy]

@@Invictus13666 Thank you.

[@lavalampsucculent2996]

I hope you can get your inspiration back and that things settle down a little bit so you can go and shoot more!! You sound dedicated to the craft and it'll take you really far I'm sure. God bless and keep it up!!

[@KylerSteele]

That photo paired perfectly with the junk yard. Lovely video

[@fredychacha9961]

Wow spectacular

[@edb2720]

The way those two pictures complement and support each other is fantastic. Love your photos and your videos man.

[@richardc8155]

Thank you Nick. Typically great vid. You explain your craft with clarity and aplomb. Bravo

[@maxwellwellmax878]

Im sooooooooooooo glad you uploaded today, I had a rough week and the weekend was pretty Dull so your Video was sorely needed!!!

[@VedutaV]

Book is a perfect firm for series of a photographs to exist. Making a book and photos for one is an experience every photographer should have. Hope to see your book done. Love your on location videos 💙💛

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Love the synergy of these two pictures.

[@Necroblob]

Another banger. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos.

[@anand_pg]

Great shot!

[@leeyoung1210]

Waiting for your photobook!

[@dpulte]

Great video, Nick!

[@arieldevillers4244]

Great shot Nick!

[@partlydave2]

Lol that last mouse click of the scanner loading montage was gold. Reminds me of the transitions in Hot Fuzz - a hyper action sequence of the mundane steps of a process.

[@kennethrank9489]

Beautiful! I love your idea. This could become your "signature" subject idea.

[@WayneThePoet]

Love the pano pallet image, great depth, and composition. So many shots in the Instagram era have their subject dead center, which most of us before Instagram, were taught to avoid. And while your backlit “valley” in the pallets is centered and draws your eye, the building on the left is the real star. It’s up front, and has lots of interest and textures which lead you into the rest of the photo. Especially with the perfectly placed tree behind, which seems to point directly at it. If you break the main elements down to big shapes and tonal values, the placement of those shapes are fantastic. Really nice!

[@barnaclewatcher4060]

Another entertaining and educational on location video Nick.I never realized how important wood pallets are to our civilized way of life.... but now I know! 😀

[@BackFocus11]

Oh yeah. Another Nick master video. Love it

[@don8635]

I just love your sense of humour, Nick

[@harry2189]

I LOVE these videos, by far my favourite thing to watch on yt

[@RetroGlass]

You always impress me with your photos.

[@David_analogue01]

Looking forward to the book!

[@therealnotanerd]

With Nick's videos, I like and comment first on how great the video is and THEN I watched it. I was never disappointed.

[@karolaneuer5506]

I would love to see these panoramic images printed big in one exhibition one day.

[@KODAKER]

Ordered chaos! Lovely as usual!☺️

[@edmontonian5270]

You know... I was previsualizing a Nick Carver KZbin video drop this weekend and wouldn't you know it... it's "The Secret" maaaannnnnn!!!

[@dufrankify]

Great stuff!

[@silekiernanphotography]

Love both of these images Nick; have always admired your junk yard scene and it pairs nicely with this new image. Reminds me of Andreas Gursky. Thank you for sharing!

[@IainHC1]

Always a pleasure Nick 🙂 Thanks for the vid 🙂

[@iggvec5769]

what a content ... i love your brain, as a photographer i love your thinking about everything, i wish to learn that but a feel i kinda already have it, just not putting it in a words ... overall i love you so much

[@ChristineWilsonPhotography]

Your right its the perfect shot to go with the junk yard shot

[@shura311]

Yeah, I think I'd buy that book... sometime...

[@GreggObst]

Looking forward to that book one day.

[@thomverhoeven7896]

Another great video Nick. Love from the Netherlands!

[@otroargentinocamioneroenes5805]

Nice panoramic!

[@CarlosPBeltran]

Fantastic.

[@frankpavich]

Love the photo. Love the video.

[@Bujia.]

I love the way you "put order" on a chaotic place. Months struggling to manage to do it in a woodland, so hard for me after almost 20 +years. The way you do it helped me a lot.. Never comment but always check on your channel because you are one of the best photographers out there. Thanks for let us see your process man!

[@franz_bergmueller]

Excellent!

[@atlebo561]

Great, they go perfectly together :-)

[@mm8276352]

I had to rewind to see that mid-word cut to the location again. So good.

[@nathanmallen]

The cut at 4:08 killed me

[@markwalkerphotography]

Good to have you back on location Nick 😄

[@achinthadahanayake6477]

Pano shot is superb ❤️🧡 I started shooting film very recently. (Few years ago) the first film i shot was the Kentmere 100. I developed it myself (i didnt contol the temperature, i used tap water) even with my sloppy developing, photos came out good. Glad they are coming up with the 120

[@caiodlimaM]

great video as allways

[@maxmillion4216]

Always great info Nick and always I LAFAO......great job at keeping it real.

[@jamesherrick2566]

Great video. Always inspiring.

[@madrouault3]

Thx from France!

[@07dnokin]

let me know when that book is ready! I like both of those two photos, but together they become something else! They look great.

I think this is one of the best next step moves that you made in your photographic journey. This pair of photographs will make you famous one day my man. Keep up the good work and therefore keep inspiring people such as myself. Luv ya monica'.

[@stevesvids]

I have a pallet shot that I've been trying to get for a long while now. Never achieved it. I realise now I've never thought it through enough. This gives me fresh hope and new visualisation of what I'm trying to achieve. Great image my friend. Everything you do... is. Take care Regards.... Steve.

[@andrewfindlayphoto]

'Kentmere' that's a name from the past. They used to make graded B&W paper in a factory in the Lake District, Cumbria. I remember the paper was ideal for photographers who didn't want to be troubled by strong blacks.

[@MrMeadowfresh]

Fun vid as usual, and inching ever so closer to that 100k mark!

[@FabrizioZago]

Love the pallet pano, great shot that goes well with the junkyard. I like the photo taken with the Fuji too. I own the non zoom version, the GA645, and I always enjoy to use it.

[@peterbaylis8631]

Nick, those two images will look great side by side, maybe as the centre spread for your book. Cheers Pete.

[@CookedLight]

We hope !!! 😅 they are two very good shots

[@Professor_Internet_PhD]

qualiy shot, as usual. They do indeed combine really well.

[@ryanbhangdia]

wow awesome video, one of my favorites. I really really like the watermelon patch image, the juxtaposition for me works incredibly well and I love images that balance such different elements so well.

[@renemens24]

I want to be that perfect companion to that book. some day. I hope! Thank you Nick, for letting me use the word juxstaposition in a correct way. XOXO

[@weisserth]

Sunday is saved.

[@nomadben]

The pallet photo turned out great, I really like that one. I didn't care as much for the junkyard photo, but they go really well together. I always enjoy the On Location videos.

[@erichstocker8358]

I really enjoyed this and could see immediately the similarity with the junkcar photo. I use Kentmere in 35mm. I am happy to hear that it is available in 120.

[@worldofrandometry6912]

Excellent stuff. Very 'palletable'.

[@johnsmith1474]

You drive out to a junky urban scene with $12K of equipment to take a shot of a pallet pile, on film no less. I love you man. The ground glass & leaf shutter with hand meter process is to die for, as I've experienced with my Horseman 6x9 field camera setup. I'd love to be 50 feet away at 90 degrees, to you to shoot a landscape of a guy with his head under a cloth using a 6x17 setup shooting a fenced in yard of wooden pallets. You got lucky with the street trash, it's just right. I wonder what you think of incident meter readings? To me they add one more bit of mysticism wonder-science to the shooting process. That center filter is very expensive last I checked, it can be duplicated exactly in Photoshop to save 1.3 stops as you surely know. Great video.

[@ianbabcock5951]

There was a company nearby, "Peter's pallets" who refurbished. I called him one time and Peter answered.. he was hammering thru the whole phone call and a dog barking in the background. Anyway I just started using split ND w/4x5 and your tip about stopping down is great, I had to judge by just looking at the front of the lens, next time I'll try it!

[@comment_deleted]

The moment I thought, "he sounds like Lt. Dangle" I chuckled Then you immediately dropped the "just some new film goofin" line and I lmao'd🤣

[@danbuchman7497]

Hi, thank you for posting this field trip, photos and explaining why you selected this shot. I first discovered your channel looking for scanning negative guidance, but I always had a bit of difficulty “understanding” your art. I seem to recall (Picasso maybe), said about appreciating cubism that art is communication and just because you don’t understand the language, doesn’t mean the communication is any less important. It’s on me, the viewer to learn the language to appreciate the message. I think this video went a long way toward not only my appreciation of your work, but also that work of other artists. Best regards.

[@nextpicture]

i love your choice of locations.. this would be my choice too.. thx.. from berlin, germany

[@marcusoutdoors4999]

My neighbour runs his heating system off old pallets. Wonderful pictures as always.

[@LaViejaConsolada]

kudos to you for being honest and fair with the feelings you got from kentmere 400. I had exactly the same reaction when I gave it a go years ago: a dull, low latitude big grain film. Some people like it, but it is not for me.

[@JohnKrill]

Real close to 100k subscribers. I will keep coming back to check the count. No need for you to check. You keep making these terrific videos. I will let you know .

[@UncleDansVintageVinyl]

I almost always find myself drawn to really contrasty subjects. So Kentmere 400 might be good for me!

[@MichaWha]

Super cool as usual! Seeing as I'm a broke-ass photographer, I should give these Kentmere stocks a shot!

[@kimsosson4739]

I'm so much looking forward for a book to come. Why? I really dig your photography (and I love photo books, especially a nice coffee table sized on). And I barely have wallspace for photography, and the few there is, is decorated with some paintings and a few decent images that I took (very few worth hanging 🤷🏻‍♂️). Plus that'll give access to more of your great photography in one place. I understand of course that the planning and the cost of making a worthy book are not easy.

[@enigmabletchley6936]

"In a book, someday", Nick? I'll pre-order as soon as you announce it (as I am sure a lot of your subscribers will, as well). Great video and photography, as always.

[@scottweaverphotovideo]

I would also be very intrigued to photograph this subject. You mentioned a junk yard. There is a massive one I've looked at for years and subconsciously I consider how to capture it.

[@odukar2315]

Hope to test the Kentmere soon by myself. However, I will use a yellow filter to increase contrast, as you said.

[@jean-claudemuller3199]

In B&W contrast can be driven by developpment time, higher ISO and longer dev time will raise contrast (and grain)

[@chromagraphphotoart]

Nick: #1 Once again, you and Ben Horne Post ON THE SAME DAY. Just Sayin' #2 If your quiff gets any higher, you will need to either kneel, or get a bigger house #3 I'm sure those films were meant for me...

[@douglasadrian138]

Well, just getting to this and I gotta say, I understand (to a degree) your thoughts on the contrast in the images. But compositionally, I really like what you've got there and with a little work, the contrast can be helped. Get video once again

[@__lancaster]

"Stacks of socio economic stability." Brilliant 🤣😂