 My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer But with a family to feed and bills to pay I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist So I took a job as a photojournalist 25 years and thousands of assignments later. It was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion Come along on my journey to become the best black in my photographer I can be whether it be film or digital. I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures and hopes to inspire and educate This is my journey This is Brighton Yash This morning I'm out along the South San Am River. I've got my Bintech 645 in the roll of Elford Delta 100 and I'll be shooting that at 50 Now I'm not sure if this video will be done in a day. It might take longer Might take longer to fill this roll of film It's a beautiful autumn morning here in Oregon No clouds in the sky a little bit of a bummer. I really like how the rock is etched and Smooth and shaped by water over time. This area will be under water Here in a few weeks and Most of the year this is underwater. In certain times year water river gets low and then this area gets to kind of Sit up above the water for a while. I'm also amazed at how these plants seem to make a living here just Latching on to a crack in the rock. I love the the play of Rock and vegetation here in this area. It's pretty cool. I have a feeling the light's gonna Be a little harsh for us here a little bit. I haven't even found a shot yet. We'll keep looking There's there's just too much here. I am having a hard time narrowing in on something This is one of those areas that's close to my house actually now that I've We're living where I live. This is an area. I've come to before a few different times It's been a couple years since I've been here But this area is is a 15 minutes from my house Now this is what I would call the obvious shot Just kind of shooting up the stream here Trying to get some of these texture rocks in the foreground. I really do like how it kind of cuts through these rocks and How they're all kind of cut and shaped by the water But it is kind of obvious shot For some reason it's it's harder. I'm having a hard time then then it should and it shouldn't be this hard What part of it might be just a spotty light? It's just pretty harsh so We might give it a try later in the week. There's supposed to be some clouds in the next couple days Kind of the fewest things a little bit. I Think this location might benefit from that So I'm gonna try to find some compositions that will benefit from the Harder light. I shot this with the 45 millimeter f22 Might try on f16 f22 looks pretty good on this lens Detraction doesn't seem to be the big of an issue with it My primes I only use primes and it doesn't seem like the fraction really Effects them that much at least not enough that you need to worry about a little sharpening and when I process the images Seems to bring everything right back to what should be Yeah, you can see the hill behind me there. It's just too bright I'm in the deep shadow here deep shade So this shot might not even work because I'm gonna have to really burn in the background quite a bit when I uh When I after I scan this image I'm only gonna shoot one frame of this. I decided right now It's that first frame gotta get it get it in the bag, you know It takes the pressure off. I'll find some more now this boulder For some reason it's caught my attention Probably because there's it's so smooth around it. There's not a lot So it kind of stands out. It seems like there's a natural contrast there With the moss and then the rocks that Don't have anything on them I don't know maybe too simple for a photograph Maybe I'll try to get a composition with it Well, I did find a composition. I think I like I'm starting with this little curved foreground detail The angle of light really making that stand out really nice and kind of putting a line to the boulder here and I'm using these three boulders and the together The main the main boulder here is kind of the main subject And then there's two other ones that kind of zigzag to the back through the background It's kind of simple, but I I think I kind of like it Well, I'll see more when I uh After I get it developed and scanned This is a good example of Taking what nature gives you, you know The light's kind of harsh But in this image, it's actually kind of working for me. It's giving me uh some nice definition nice texture and the In the rock because the sun's angle is kind of low and it's throwing these nice shadows off the boulders too, so that's kind of cool Well, I'm doing my best today To try to take what nature gives me I don't like working in this kind of light. It uh Goes against What I normally look for And I'm not really sure why that is. Well, I'm pretty sure it's so for so many years I would I was shooting Transparency film which has very little dynamic range in this kind of lighting. It's just terrible on Uh transparency film You're going to lose the highlights or you're going to lose the shadows But with negative film, especially the black and white negative film I'm using It has a lot more latitude, so I really should be kind of uh Willing to expand my horizons a little bit. So that's what we're doing today. I'm gonna I'm expanding my horizons I'm looking for stuff in light that I normally don't like to photograph This is like I just don't like to try to make images in I always find it frustrating in the past But I'm not shooting slide film so maybe uh Maybe this the contrast looks to be a a bonus for creativity. I'm kind of waiting for the light I'm kind of wanting a little more light. I hit this foreground This little round hole In the foreground and then I like how The trees are reflecting in the water Through this channel and it goes up to the trees These fingers crossed that we just get a little bit more in here So there's not so much difference between the foreground and the background And hopefully the wind will stay calm So we can get a decent reflection of the trees in the background Feels good to be out in the Out in the uh wild again I'm looking forward to finishing out the year strong with some photography Feel like uh circumstances have Shut down my creativity kept me out of the woods And I think it's time to Start pushing forward If I get something good or not It's not that important important is that I'm out doing it out getting the shots I'll be in creative the uh The good stuff will come but you just got to be out there to get the good stuff Well, I think it's time to get back to producing zines I don't know if you know this a lot. You probably do. I have a couple zines on my website That uh, you know, they're fairly basic but uh They they highlight My black white photography my zines called seeing monochrome. This is something that I keep going And lately I've been feeling the desire to Not over think so much the zine Just get stuff in print that I like So I'm gonna in the process of working on a couple other projects I think it's those personal projects that really uh It's a fast way to getting back into uh feeling creative again But if you want to see the zines I have If you're interested in seeing the zines that I have Available right now You can go to my website at rideniesphotography.com and there's links on there you can pre preview it Which is actually all I really care about I would like people to see the At least the previews if you want to Have one to to look in person to thumb through it. That's always kind of nice But if you want to preview it for free go to my website and click on the preview link and check them out I I love people to see my photography and if you want to help this channel you can pick one up Some of that content is from film A lot of it and uh also from digital digital cameras really can't tell that much difference in On the printed page at those sizes but uh I really Enjoy just kind of looking at the images in print And the zine is kind of nice because I can I can kind of have like many get Like a mini gallery mini exhibition I can show people Some bodies of work In a really nice cling package It might happen here I might get a nice little shaft across that Four grams detail that'd be so cool I've shot a couple frames here already I might do one more Um If the conditions make me want to do it So this roll may not have a whole lot of variety on it But this one's kind of a weird composition Really just shooting an area It's a bit chaotic Sometimes I like the chaos. I like a little bit of a chaotic shot It's interesting reflections in the pool here the rocks and then the uh The vegetation stairs stepping up The lines going across it's there's a lot going on in this image I'm not sure how it's gonna work But when you're gonna get feeling about something, you know, it's It's good to just make the shot, you know Take the shot and worry about later I just uh Like the the dark Area behind the vegetation that makes the vegetation that's being hit by the light kind of stand out more I don't know I'm doing a lot of that kind of shooting today where it's I uh, I'm not really sure and I won't know until I actually like Get it scanned and kind of look at it and Think hmm. What was I thinking or hmm? I'm brilliant But it's probably more of the uh, what was I thinking? I think I'm gonna end Today's video right here I'm kind of running out of Energy a little fatigued I think I just need some lunch It's getting kind of warm and the lights pretty hard So hopefully I've got a shot or two to show you from the day It's been a nice early autumn outing Looking forward to more of these trips So until next time