Understanding a Negative

[@leopoldlemon3779]

You are my favorite guru hippie sounding robot

[@willysheepskin]

Beep bop -ommmmmmm- t h a n k y o u L e o p o l d - beep bop , ahahahah

[@CalumetVideo]

Thanks William for your videos. You are one of the few that I really enjoy watching. I love your honest explanations.

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks a ton man! Honored to be among the select few haha!

[@justinconnaher8868]

Thanks William! Reading negatives when starting out is something difficult to get your head in to. This is a solid explanation. Cheers!

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks Justin! I hope it proves useful for the curious haha! Glad you reckon it’s solid, cheers!

[@justinconnaher8868]

@@willysheepskin Absolutely solid. I’m in no position to judge, but that was good. Thanks again!

[@clairescheepers]

This feels like watching you show us that a lot of hours of "doing" has gone into instinctively knowing what's going to work or not! :-)

[@willysheepskin]

A lot of hours of doing and repeated failure haha!

[@olgamarsay8483]

Wonderfully well explained and interesting.

[@willysheepskin]

Thank you! I’m glad you got something out of it!

[@brntgudn]

Please do more of these videos! I've been working with film negatives for years now and learned new things in this video!

[@willysheepskin]

Glad you got something out of it Brent! I'm sure I'll make another video in this style sometime in the future!

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

very interesting video. The video I would have wanted when I started! I also did not think that Pro400h has so little dynamic range. 😮

[@willysheepskin]

Glad you found it interesting man! I did rate that Pro400h at iso 250 I think so it was veeery overexposed to be fair haha

[@thefilmdaddy]

A man who knows his craft. 👏 your technical ability has always impressed me so much man. Thank you for sharing all of this for freeeee!! Also I had no idea that different light leaks had different colours… literally blew my mind! And people calling you them things, fools a plenty on the internet…

[@willysheepskin]

Ahah I'm glad I come across as such! Thank's for watching the free thing haha! Rad that you learnt something about leaks as well And yeah man fools a plenty indeed, had to deal with a whole bunch of em this week, on and off the internet so wasn't in the mood for conflict on this one ahah

[@iainlaurence]

Very informative! I usually need the invert filter on my camera phone to figure out what’s going on with a negative

[@willysheepskin]

I really should’ve mentioned that nifty strategy in this video haha!

[@aristoioannidis7490]

Great update. I have a much better understanding of negatives and positives by a cursory review. Interesting about printing off a scan you can salvage more versus printing of a negative. You get a better appreciation of metering process. Thanks again.

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks Aristo! Glad to have added something to your understanding! Great metering is indeed very important for getting good negs to work with, and you're welcome! Thank you!

[@ryanbhangdia]

awesome video!! thanks for breaking this stuff down so nicely

[@willysheepskin]

Cheers Ryan! Glad you got something out of it!

[@craigmckernan4056]

Super helpful, thanks

[@willysheepskin]

Glad you found it useful Craig! Cheers!

[@Havenotats]

Mr sheepskin bringing the good good 🤩✨

[@willysheepskin]

Thank you kindly mr Tats!

[@yannickwansel6952]

quick tip: you can also set up your iphone to change its screen to negative and then use the camera to get a quick look of the negatives inverted.

[@willysheepskin]

Haha yep I often do that! What I talk about in this video is more about understanding the negative itself than inverting it technologically though, but that’s a great tip! ( if anyone is curious you go; settings -> accessibility -> display and text size -> classic invert)

[@ReimannPembroke]

This is a really nice and informative video Will! I hope tons of beginners see this!

[@willysheepskin]

Cheers Reimann! Might be a bit too much left unexplained for the very beginners still but hopefully useful for folks that have a vague idea about things but want to look into it a bit more!

[@mayasarembock8739]

This makes so much sense! Thanks Willy

[@willysheepskin]

You are most welcome miss Maya

[@MalcolmKingswell]

Great video William, how did you video the negatives so that they became a positive please

[@willysheepskin]

Cheers Malcom! I just inverted the video color in premier pro!

[@simonr1chter]

Ooooh thank you for that hint with the colour of the lightleaks! That makes so much sense to me now :D Again, great video!

[@willysheepskin]

You’re welcome! Useful as a starting point for identifying things haha! Glad you enjoyed things once more Simon!

[@Geoooooooo91]

Such quality content and so much love in the comments too! (I'm also glad you don't spend half the video making and drinking coffee 😆)

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks so much George! It's wonderful how many kind folks stop by here weekly, and I don't drink coffee ahah, lament for the coffee shots that will never be lol!

[@giantkingsquid]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks.

[@willysheepskin]

Thank's Mr.Squid! You're welcome!

[@isidoros20]

Great vid thanks! I've always wanted to get better at understanding colour theory, especially in conjunction to celluloid film. Maybe part two for nerds?

[@willysheepskin]

Cheers man, might just make a part two somewhere down the line indeed!

[@asherhodara389]

Awesome video man. Sheepsquad school is in session!

[@willysheepskin]

Ahaha Sheepsquad school, what a legend! Cheers Asher!

[@twoone5745]

dope

[@normancacho]

Great Video

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks Norman!

[@karlnovel]

thank you, this was quite interesting!

[@willysheepskin]

You’re welcome Karl! Glad you found it interesting!

[@RELAXEDFIT]

Great breakdown! Jealous of your XL Kaiser Light Table!

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks! I'm jealous of that table too haha, I borrowed it from the lab! I have an A4 one, that big one is dreaaaamy

[@shotbysreeku]

Interesting topic Willy! You never fail to impress with content ❤️

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks Sreeku! I just make videos about stuff I find interesting so it's rad when the interests are shared!

[@shotbysreeku]

@@willysheepskin between that light table is rad af 🔥

[@justinmueller9579]

Hi will Justin here, would be great if you do this for black and white negs too, latitude is the game I think

[@lilkngstr]

Really helpful!

[@willysheepskin]

Awesome! Glad you got something out of it!

[@gpcy]

If i get my scans back and its not blank, i am a proud film shooter😂😂😂

[@willysheepskin]

Don’t worry before you know it it’ll all fall into place, I’ve had a fair few blank rolls over the years haha!

[@caleblebourgeois7290]

But seriously this video is so cool learned a lot

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks Caleb, I’m glad to hear it! Will get more into color theory at some point I reckon

[@pain6154]

Willy!

[@juiceboyxd9310]

Wow you know alot of stuff.

[@willysheepskin]

Thanks man! I have much yet to learn!

[@caleblebourgeois7290]

“Basic color theory” okay ha!

[@willysheepskin]

Ahah I’m so on edge talking about anything at the moment cus it really gets to me when the elitists show up and start telling me how dumb I am, could’ve said that better tbh! But all it really is is colors and their opposites in grading terms - so cyan + red | green + magenta and blue + yellow are the basic opposites to keep in mind

[@leopoldlemon3779]

some negatives have base casts and other negatives just leave shit comments on youtube videos, okay ha! 0:43 you obviously missed this part

[@caleblebourgeois7290]

@@leopoldlemon3779 have a great day thanks!

[@willysheepskin]

I think you’ve misunderstood Caleb’s intentions here matey, I feel like it was more of a “ah but basic color theory might not be basic to some folks” than a jab at anyone. We’re all just here for a good time, let’s bust out the Ektar and hunt down tha toooonez

[@pain6154]

Job interview today🤝

[@willysheepskin]

Well if you're as early for that as you were for this you're a shoe-in! Go gettem!

[@pain6154]

@@willysheepskin update- i got it😎

[@clairescheepers]

Whooooot. ❤️

[@willysheepskin]

@@pain6154 congratulations!!!

[@mannymartin_ez]

Just got my first film camera, went straight to medium format. Very excite, very student. t h a n k y o u w i l l i a m

[@willysheepskin]

That’s awesome man congratulations! Have fun and don’t be too hard on yourself if things go wrong starting out, the process of figuring it all out is the fun part!