The Magic of Square Format Photography | Hasselblad 500CM

[@АнтонКривцун]

Your video is so warm and hearty! It's pleasure to watch it, it's pleasure to dive into the story and experience you're talking about.

[@nicarnold]

Aww, no YOU are warm and hearty! 🥺🫶🏼

[@lomileage]

You and your companion add a nice and warm feeling at the end of the video.

[@nicarnold]

Thank you man!

[@Gurgook]

Your videos always make me want to dust off the old hassie and shoot again. But they also make want to shoot videos as well. It's such a pleasure to see you do both so well. Keep up the good work.

[@nicarnold]

Glad these videos do anything to you!

[@aquss33]

this video looks insane, incredible visuals as always

[@nicarnold]

Aww thank you! Much appreciated!

[@jasongold6751]

One of your best videos and super photos! Bravo.

[@nicarnold]

Thank you! Stay tuned for E15!

[@David-Ettel]

First of all, the first outfit is absolute heat! I´m kinda into the square format since Robert Eggers released "The Lighthouse" in 2019 so this was pretty sick to watch. Nice angle and transition at 07:02. and yeah, the red house wasnt it chief. The conclusion is facts, see you in the next one and I really hope they call, cause you can't expose a man to a big brown snake like that!

[@nicarnold]

Gonna check out The Lighthouse! Glad you liked my outfit brother ✨

[@eatenbyopium]

Finally, a Hasselblad user who actually knows how to load film in properly. All these youtube photographers with Hasselblads take off the whole back to load an i'm not sure why when all you have to do is pop out the film cartridge and pop it back in.

[@nicarnold]

Yeah I‘ll do both ways to cover all personal preferences across my audience tho. 🫶🏼

[@sebastianonicolo4208]

This channel and your work are simply amazing

[@nicarnold]

🥺🥺🥺

[@kalenderquantentunnel9411]

I shot with different Hasselblads for 15 years and made the square work for me more than it just fell into place. At some point I realized I just let the square groundglass dictate my composition too often and adjusted my habits of using the negative-space accordingly which meant cropping more in the darkroom. On the flipside I wouldn't have discovered some very nice square compositions without the square camera. I now use a 6x7 and also have a groundglass indicating 6x6 for the odd square composition so the Hasselblad definitely left a mark.

[@nicarnold]

Even less images from one roll with 6x7 but stunning resolution. You can truly spend your whole life mastering all formats.

[@kalenderquantentunnel9411]

@@nicarnold In my experience it is gear and not film which eats your money even at current prices for both and opportunities to shoot are priceless! Like Ansel said: Use the largest format you are able to carry.

[@angelinoschintu]

Thank you for this video. It's pretty bloody awesome and I'm glad you've kind of rediscovered square photography. I'm new to medium format having bought a Mamiya 645 1000s Gold Lizard special edition and I'm really loving shooting in that format. Then in post production I'm cropping a little - just a little, to the Academy Ratio just to give it that feeling of comfort. But I've just bought a Hasselblad 500C/M and, well, square is a whole other thing isn't it? And I'm so looking forward to the symmetry and the beauty of it!

[@nicarnold]

Thanks a ton and welcome to the fam!

[@andyvan5692]

at 8:16, that's the reason for modularity, in cameras, so you have TWO backs, and can switch between mid-roll 🙂; so if you wanted b&w or colour, go ahead, switch, get the shot!

[@nicarnold]

That’s correct if you brought color film with you.

[@MisterBigDave]

Thanks, you made some very clear points. I’ve been shooting square film almost 40 years and it has its own view and creative possibilities, however, in the past much emphasis was placed on shooting for the crop instead of the square. And I can go on and on about this but will save it.. The square is iconic as is!

[@nicarnold]

100%

[@Caballeroshot]

I shoot the Bronica SQ-A and you convinced me to take it out for a spin. Got a free roll of B&W from my local lab too. Lovely shots btw, excellent work.

[@nicarnold]

Go brother!

[@Zakrivers]

Great content, please trade that shutter sound for the chonky 500 thunk!

[@nicarnold]

Thanks! It is the actual authentic sound from this very camera!

[@strawzinthewind]

What is the music in this video? It’s all incredible!

[@nicarnold]

Musicbed! Thank you!

[@riswanc]

Hi nicolas, always love the video! Do you mostly shoot on a zeiss 50mm lens?

[@nicarnold]

Nope. I am using 50mm, 80mm, 100mm pretty much en par. Been using the 50 for 90% of this video though!

[@08yankeefan]

I notice you shoot a lot on FP4 in other videos. Is that what you are using here as well?

[@nicarnold]

No! I shot these on Tri-X 400!

[@08yankeefan]

@@nicarnold beautiful, great contrast!

[@r1berto1]

Very, very nice images! Where is the snake?

[@nicarnold]

Dude it’s somewhere really close I feel it!

[@andyvan5692]

also for me, Hasselblads are the bokeh monsters, NOT LF Fujinon SWD quality bokeh, of course!, but wow, what a UI and the sound, just makes you want to slow down, do things mechanically, just to hear that WAH AH 🙂

[@nicarnold]

True. Operating this things makes up for all the pain.

[@enshongmiranda]

A square sensor, what the 907x should have had.

[@nicarnold]

Something I‘ll never understand.

[@hermannkroeis]

There is only two types of snakes in Denmark: European Adder (Vipera berus) and the Grass snake (Natrix natrix). Unless someone lost an illegal pet snake, it probably isnt very dangerous to humans.

[@nicarnold]

I bet it’s the illegal snake! IT MUST BE THE ILLEGAL SNAKE!

[@cameraprepper7938]

I will be great if Sony could make a square sensor !

[@nicarnold]

Just put your Sony in 1:1 aspect ratio mode. Or wait for me doing a video about it not too far in the future.

[@cameraprepper7938]

@@nicarnold 🤣 No that I will not do, I will prefer a much larger sensor for that ! But I do sometimes crop into square format. I had a Hasselblad 2000 FC for 16 years, so I know a lot about square format.

[@DessieTots]

After 12:44 I lost interest for some reason.

[@nicarnold]

12:44 is the best part.

[@tommymonolo]

Hey Nicolas, I’m 5 minutes in and fuck Apple Music and fuck Spotify… Fuck all social media right ! Apart from KZbin. You are getting so much better with the “Hassy” I just recently purchased a Hassy”500cm. It’s so beautiful I can’t take my eyes off of it. Super cool videos. Keep on shooting on. Peace ✌️ Tommy.

[@nicarnold]

Thanks mate!

[@tommymonolo]

Hey Nicolas , I’m so glad you mentioned Album covers .. your photo of the two horses is a perfect Album cover for the guy who was in Midlake.. a great band they recently split and he has done a solo Album.. he might like your photo for his next .. maybe try and reach out. I’m almost certain you are a Pink Floyd fan … if and it’s a big if.. you have not yet seen Hipgnosis a documentary you must watch it immediately! Peace ✌️ Tommy.

[@nicarnold]

Will check it out. Big fan of their early work. Not so much of their latest output in terms of political views.