 Yo, what up welcome back to another episode. Well, it's the holidays once again, so happy Honda days or Toyota thong or whatever it is you celebrate Tis the Christmas season or at least it was a month ago when I shot this and I thought my gift to you this year would be the sequel to a Shitty video that no one ever asked for that's right I'll be shooting none other than Kodak ectachrome over this holiday season because at this point It's becoming tradition just like how it's tradition for me to get blackout drunk the night before Christmas tear down all My neighbor's decorations and then take a shit in their dishwasher and run it I think I just act out because I know I'm getting cold for Christmas again this year I don't shoot a whole lot of slide film But if anything ectachrome is the positive film that I've shot the most for those of you that don't know Slide film is a special kind of film that renders your image as a positive Whereas like a color negative film like portrait 400 renders the image as a negative and needs to be inverted to make a Positive image for a lot of photographers the reason they would choose to shoot a positive or a slide film like ectachrome is because the colors are generally A lot more saturated however with this comes sort of a trade-off with slide film You don't get as much dynamic range as you would with say a color negative film The last time I shot ectachrome was on my trip to Iceland and a lot of the shots kind of turned out a little Underexposed, but that's mostly user error though I've always thought that ectachrome was kind of a special kind of film that worked better in certain Situations over others, but that kind of thinking is a little unreasonable because I've actually found that ectachrome renders most scenes quite beautifully So for this season I'm gonna be shooting with my contacts t2 as you may recall last year I shot with my Leica m3, but I've since sold that camera after I accidentally backed up over it in my car But it's cool I was able to list that camera on eBay as mint plus plus plus plus with four pluses instead of the near-perfect six Well, it was time to start shooting, but first some family portraits featuring our cat Baxter Using the self-timer on the contacts Hey, Monica. What do you think about the news the big news today? Kodak ectachrome came out in 120 medium format and four by five film Aside from Baxter planting himself under the tree and thinking he's our greatest gift Not much really happened those first few days But then it came time to party up first on the agenda this holiday season was a Christmas party Featuring all the eggnog you can drink or butt chug if you're into that I didn't get any footage of the party because obviously my hands were full holding the funnel But I did manage to snap two photos of my friend Franco Yo About to shoot a video the Helios video you can see here at the camera the microphone Yeah, I went to a party last night brought the contacts to you too, and it was like a Holiday ski lodge themed party. Yeah, my memory is a little fuzzy Saw Kale's last night and I got some cinna still from him We put in an order about a week and a half until Christmas now ectachrome for 120 came out and put it in an Order, but I guess it's not gonna be shipped until like January. So I don't know if I'll get it in time for this video I think that's about it. Yeah So Monica just left For to go home for Christmas So I have the apartment all to myself There we go got in a few prints that I'm gonna frame up and give to people like my family Hopefully they won't throw them away this time. I think if you're a photographer It is a good idea to give prints as a gift if you frame them up and stuff Especially if it's like a print that you know overlaps your interest with them So like I'm giving my brother a print a spot We went to an Iceland and there's like this really cool story behind it because we met a guy and that guy told us about this Other spot this really really cool Canyon with a couple of waterfalls So I thought you know the picture that I took there would be perfect to give to my brother because it has some sort of Meaning to it and then the other photo that I'm giving to my brother is a photo from our last trip out to Utah and it was just so so beautiful that we Got up for sunrise that morning and it was just an epic epic sunrise So I'm giving him a frame print of that because when you're a photographer and you don't know what to get someone you get him a print Here's a bit of relevant film news. Kodak ectochrome is gonna come to 8x10 film. So that's pretty exciting So it was time for me to make my annual pilgrimage up to northern California and see the family and instead of leaving Baxter behind to defend the apartment with a loaded shotgun and a jug of moonshine I decided to bring the young lad with me up north Rived I was devastated to see that none of my presents were x-pan shaped So I took an angry stroll around the neighborhood with Baxter and my mom and of course my sweet contacts t2 Which I'm very very fortunate to have This time around I decided to overexpose the ectochrome by half of a stop because for a slide film It seems like ectochrome actually handles highlights pretty well, and that's something I can fuck with Back at the house Baxter was getting used to his life behind bars for chasing the cat around too much But when he wasn't shanking other inmates or drinking toilet wine, he did have a lot of time in the yard Let's be honest. This is a Baxter video more than it's a film photography video The rest of the week I just spent hanging out with my mom and Baxter until Monica flew into town And it was time to go on another walk So Something I noticed about ectochrome on this go-around is that the grain is almost non-existent on this film I'm not sure if it's like that on other positive films But if someone wants to explain in the comments why all these images are super smooth I'd love to know and just as quickly as the holidays arrived They were gone and it was time for us to crawl back to where we came from Hell or LA I guess depending on your viewpoint overall I'm very happy with the shots on this trip with this one being my favorite I think though the lighting and the colors are pretty solid and what I really like about this image Is that there's like a perfectly placed yellow note taped to the garage. I Think I'm still trying to figure out, you know, what looks best when you're shooting this film I really like how this film renders orange and red colors because often times I found that there's a purple or blue cast to a lot of the shots and those colors just go pretty well together I wouldn't say that my hometown is especially photogenic by any stretch So maybe I just need to get out and go somewhere new and shoot actor chrome Especially now that they've released it for 120. What else is there to say really? Kodak raised their prices and I've been crying a lot more lately. Is there a correlation? Probably