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Saving useful information from out-of-print VHS or Beta video tape.
White Light Printing (Dean Collins 1991)
A very short piece about white light printing. If you make a note of the reading you get, you can use any enlarger to get the same looking print or even print another one years later and get the same density.
The Sketchbook mentioned and shown on the screen at the beginning is available at software-cinema.com as a PDF. Actual print versions show up NOS on eBay from time to time. The Naked Photographer has a video with a bit more depth called "Changing Print Sizes with Equal Exposure". There is also a video on this channel called "Standarization of Black and White.avi" that talks about guess what.
The Naked Photographer Video - czcams.com/video/lq22mlvIkT8/video.html
Standarization of Black and White.avi - czcams.com/video/4aNysC-X8T0/video.html
The Sketchbook mentioned and shown on the screen at the beginning is available at software-cinema.com as a PDF. Actual print versions show up NOS on eBay from time to time. The Naked Photographer has a video with a bit more depth called "Changing Print Sizes with Equal Exposure". There is also a video on this channel called "Standarization of Black and White.avi" that talks about guess what.
The Naked Photographer Video - czcams.com/video/lq22mlvIkT8/video.html
Standarization of Black and White.avi - czcams.com/video/4aNysC-X8T0/video.html
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Dean Collins and Chromazones
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The 1990s Brooks presentation section on Chromazones. All the jokes were left in, even the not so PC ones. He explains how to set up a color selection chart with slide (chrome) film using light, gels, and a meter that reads incident and reflect flash.
Levitation
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The cover image from an old Calumet Photographic catalog that has the look of expensive retouching but was shot on one sheet of film. Multiple exposures, neon effect, floating effect, Scheimpflug effect, and lighting techniques. From the 1980s.
Portraits in Pastel
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This unique yet simple style of contemporary portraiture seems to fit the personality of this woman and her son. The cascade of muslin and the warmth of the background add a pastel feeling to this image. The first thing that grabs attention in this photograph is the warmth and love between these two. The little boy seems content and secure in mom's embrace. The relaxed pose appears comfortable ...
Imaginative Use of Filters 1985 Kodak
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Shows how to use polarizers, multiple-image attachments, color conversion filters, and more. Learn how to let one filter do the work of several, how to fine-tune your color slides, how to add softness, star bursts, and rainbows to your pictures. Intro has been cut and exit music muted.
Sunny f16 Rule by John Shaw
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From the first tape, "Understanding Exposure", in the series "Nature Photography Workshop Series with John Shaw". This is an explanation of the Sunny f/16 Rule and its exceptions. There are 8 tapes total in the series. Would like to get the whole series.
Large Format: The Professionals Choice
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Calumet Photographic video tape from 1986. This video was produced to correct the misconceptions and remove the mystique from large format photography. Copyright music was removed with the Beta tool from Google.
The Language of Light (1988 Kodak)
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Explains how to recognize and control light direction, work with contrast, use the color of light to express moods, and turn even bad weather lgihtgting conditions into opportunities. Includes frontlighting, backlighting, sidelighting, rim lighting, start effects, silhouette, and much more. Just trying to save the old, out of print photography videos. Looking for the rest of the series. Copyrig...
Exposure Control through Developing (E6 film)
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Finelight tape 3. Exposures are subjective and here is how you can push or pull slide film. Normally slide film cannot be pulled (underdeveloped) without color shift. Dean Collins explains how his studio was able to adjust the exposure to a clients liking by using development. This means you no longer have to shoot 3 exposures to get the one that is "correct".
Manual Retouching E6
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More FineLight salvage. This time it is a bit about old fashion retouching on E6 or slide film. This is from tape 2.
SCI-TEX retouching
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This clip is from FineLight Video Series - A Week in the Life of a Studio with Dean Collins (tape 11). It show a little about electronic retouching in the mid-80's. That isn't a mouse he is using.
NPC and Polaroid proofing
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More Finelight video salvage. This time from Volume 8 - Using Polaroids for proofing. This is video clip is in contrast to the other Polaroid video that was uploaded. The flickr Polaroid group seemed to hate the last one, maybe they will like this one. These videos are from out of print tapes. When they are re-released these videos will be removed. See SoftwareCinema for current releases.
Standarization of Black and White.avi
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More Finelight video salvage. This time from Volume 8 - Black and White Standardization. From controlling the contrast with EI and development to standard print times to reduce work and time in the darkroom. These videos are from out of print tapes. When they are re-released these videos will be removed. See SoftwareCinema for current releases.
Color Projection Box
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More Finelight video salvage. This time from Volume 6 - a color projection box. Used to create colored patterns and shapes for use with Collin's chromazone system. These videos are from out of print tapes. When they are re-released these videos will be removed. See SoftwareCinema for current releases. EDIT: You can find more info on the box in this graphic from "Magic of Light - World Tour" www...
Dean Collins on Polaroid 1991
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Dean's opinion on Polaroid materials. Side note during a lecture at Brooks Institute in 1991.
Photographers - Portfolios - and Adults
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Photographers - Portfolios - and Adults
He was and still is the master
Thank you very much for the effort to preserve those gems of knowledge and allow us to access it….Pixelpreserver and not waster…thanks a million.
You are very welcome.
...in the 90s I rented all of his tapes that I could find and made copies so I could study and copy his techniques...then I had a stroke in 2002 and suddenly lost just about everything - including all interest in the things that I had been passionate about pre-stroke - I no longer have that VCR and dunno where those old tapes are in any event...R I P Dean...
He was ahead of his time…what would he have done if he was still around….
makes me think of the common phrase "shift to the right" as a possible fallacy…. you have 4 stops and third from 18% to go to black no details blocking your shadows, and 2 and third stops from 18% to blow out your highlights to complete white, it will make all the sense to under expose by half stop so you have better maneuvering range, 4 and third stops down is wider than 2 and 1/3 stops up….!
Digital is not film. ETTR only works if ahooting in RAW and just overexpose without blow out. ETTR is only useful if you jave a noisey sensor or are shooting really high ISO.
Where is the rest of this great video, I have been hunting it for a long time?
That is tue complete segment. If you mean the Brooks presentation, Software Cinema has the second part on DVD. Most of the first half was business related and not included. The clips here are from the first part. Every now and then the two tape set comes up on ebay.
This video speaks volumes comparing it to prior videos when Dean was shooting large /medium format film how technology has taken away a lot from humans….look how Dean was photographing Bree Walker with her horse and look at this photoshoot in this video that looks like a he was shooting a clown, compare his energy then looking down Hasselblad viewfinder directing Bree as if he was in war racing the light change and how here in this video it was GONE , just gone…Machines are taking a lot from us humans, sad but true.
I still did not get how he established the 18% grey with the reflective meter, I understood going up or down from that point, but how did he get the 18%? I mean @12:03 he said adjust the power with the reflective readings until you get f11 , How did he lock that number f 11? is it his choice in the middle of the road for his lens to go up and down or there is more to it? is the reflective reading to the f stop you choose always gives you 18%?
Never mind , I got it, he said it later @15:45 , he chose f11 because it gives him the ability to stop it down or up, may be on our modern lenses could be a choice of f5.6?
@@photozen8398 More importantly camera meters and light meters are all set to 18% Grey as the starting point. It's a bit of a mind pretzel but it's the truth. If you shoot a perfectly white or black wall, the camera's meter is going to interpret the light coming back at the meter to be 18% Grey. It's your job to know how to compensate for the different values in your scene. Anything darker or lighter value than the Black or White wall will fall off into under exposure for the shadows and the Highlights will be blown out if you don't compensate for the difference. At one time we used to carry a 18% gray cards in our camera bags and aim our cameras at the gray card to get the cameras meter or light meter set to 18% and all the outside values would fall into their respective correct places. Ansel Adams made an art out of controlling the exposure and contrast based on types of film and development. Dean Collins knows that all Light meters are designed to establish 18% Grey as the Starting point and knows how to manipulate or control the values around 18% Grey on his lights and camera. And in this situation, he's using a Flash Light Meter that does the exact same thing only in an instant in "Reflective" mode, not in incident mode.
Man this guy got taken away from us way too soon. Can you imagine the kinds of things this guy could do with today's technology and the insights he would have had? The photographic community would be so much better off right now...
My main mentor! My wife set us up with his Seattle presentation the day after our wedding, on the way to the honeymoon, because she knew that, given the choice I never miss the Dean... That was June 1991... We're still married... ha
This tutorial is worth my weight in gold!! Thanks john, and the uploader.
This is the way to do this! No computer, just solving the problems with your brain.
Best of the best
I've been a photographer now for about 7 years... I've never studied it, just learnt by doing...but sometimes I do wish I'd been an apprentice during film days =/...so much knowledge that I've never had
What on earth is that laptop/camera apparatus O_o!?
Foveon Digital Camera Studio System
@@Pixelwaster Thank you! I tried looking for it but couldn't find anything. Looks very interesting.
The Don
John Shaw wrote so many books that shaped me as a teen and in my 20's. From photography I went to videography, and always... always kept him in mind. And honestly, the line, "Would you shoot a running deer at 1/30 of a second? Maybe. Maybe you like abstracted deer pictures" just killed me... lol
great video, and HEED what is said about the polaroid, at $15-00 Australian per shot, quite expensive, so be carefull.
FILM....2021....
You are a genius for having archived all of these gems. Thanks so much!
Thanks!
@@Pixelwaster Your entire library is just OMG. Hope to see more of your treasures. This is incredible material.
This video beats every other video I’ve seen on the topic.
Legend. The Don
What's a "Polaroid"? :)
Ha ha. The good old days of the Sunny 16 are over with these new cameras we have today. Even the young professionals don't know what to do now if they don't have an exposure compensation dial. With mirrorless cameras now, what you see is what you get through the viewfinder! Again dial it in. But still F stops and shutter speeds are necessary tools to understand, to get the photo you see in your mind.
thank you for sharing
The BUMS have run the pros out of business.
I am back in 1970 High School, cool video and still good.
Brilliant!
He would be amazed what we can do today with post.
Wow this man was great at predicting the future! His knowledge of the craft was extensive and that is rare these days.
Tried this in roll film, without being able to use a magazine. I shoot a color/18% card each roll. Another thing is I have the advantage of having a full lab in my garage darkroom. I shoot test rolls of color/18٪ targets and do clip tests of differently exposures to determine what works. I sometimes preflash. Experimentation will get you there. Just keep track of what you did so you can repeat ir.
Dean was a king. Very underrated.
damn...this is guy truly GOD Level
This is a cool video. I think his mustache adds 2 stops
Absolutely love these! The guy was a genius
He is using a Foveon Digital Camera Studio System. Very cool and always ahead of his time..A master craftsman. He saw the future and what was coming. I wish he was still around.
This still very much applies to digital as well as film. I sometimes try to guess what the proper exposure should be and then check my camera's meter to see how close I am. It's a good way to understand the relationship between light, aperture, and shutter speed.
What if you’re pushing to 1600? You shoot at 2000 shutter speed?
Yes but open up about a third of a stop. Why are you using 1600 on a sunny day?
@@Pixelwaster to make it look gritty and graphic
Thanks you for sharing!
Yes, he was a genius. I attended one of his seminar in 90's and he changed me.
What a rare gem. Hah.
Rest in Piece Dean. Forever known as the legendary photographer.
Wow, that was really, really helpful.
I miss good informative instructional videos like this.
great video, thanks
The best gear always comes in a wooden crate!
That Intro tho
This was amazing! Glad this was made, explains a lot in a little amount of time!
Great video. 20 years on and nothing has changed. Equipment doesn't make you better and computers don't make you better. Learning photography makes you better.
Lots of wisdom at 2:45