Photography Trip 21 Shooting on private property with the 4x5 large format camera on B/W film.

[@terryolsen4244]

I always enjoy watching your videos, Brad. I've been an avid amateur photographer since 1990. I used to really want to shoot large format but couldn't afford the equipment and I didn't have access to a darkroom. Now I'm in my 70's and I have a lot of money invested in digital equipment (and still no access to a darkroom), so I don't see myself changing formats. However, I enjoy watching you get your photos and I appreciate all the effort, dedication and expense that it requires.

[@outdoorswithbrad9265]

Thanks!! It's a lot of work to shoot B/W film and digital is so much faster and CHEEPER to shoot, but I still like getting in the darkroom and printing my pictures up. Doing these videos is a big change for me, Thanks for watching them. Hopefully I am getting better at doing them. Thanks!!!

[@philipdahl9001]

Nice video, thanks! I enjoy seeing your workflow while taking a photograph. I've been shooting 4x5 for about five years now and am still refining my workflow so I find your videos very useful.

[@outdoorswithbrad9265]

Thanks!!! Coming out with a printing in the darkroom video, next year. Are you doing your own processing and printing?

[@philipdahl9001]

@outdoorswithbrad9265 I've been doing my own developing and printing since the mid 70s. I have always preferred tinkering in my darkroom to working on the computer.

[@outdoorswithbrad9265]

Me too. I started working in the darkroom in the Army in 1975.

[@michaelsherck5099]

I shoot mostly 5x7 and 4x5 because I like the tonality and detail of the large negative, because of the control over exposure and perspective, and because I like the process of using a large format camera due to the discipline it forces you to develop (pun!) Another advantage is that onlookers tend to get bored and wander away. (There's a reason I spent 40 years in technical IT!) I normally only shoot one negative of a scene, because of the ever-rising cost of film. 4x5 negatives get enlarger to 11x14 (mostly) and 5x7 negatives are contact printed as salt prints or cyanotypes.

[@outdoorswithbrad9265]

Nice!! What do you like to shoot?? Thanks for watching.

[@mhc2b]

I always enjoy your videos, and always look forward to the next one. I also appreciate that you number your videos chronologically. I wish more You Tubers would do that! Curious - I notice that you are not wearing gloves. Does the frigid weather not affect your fingers that much?

[@outdoorswithbrad9265]

Thanks for watching my videos!! Yes, they get very cold, but it is hard to work the controls with gloves on. Sometimes I carry hot hands in my pockets to help keep them warm. Thaks!!