 Welcome to another Adventures in Film. Today we've got T-Max 100. And as usual, when the roll's done, the adventure's over. 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 photography I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures, in hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Bright in the Edge. My adventure in the Oregon Coast Range. I'm on the East Rim Trail of Mary's Peak. I'm not sure what I'm going to find in these woods. I've had a dusting of snow. I don't know if I can use that for my favor or not. We will see. I'm not sure how far I'm going to go up this trail. I didn't expect this really to be seeing snow this low. Coast Range is typically pretty good year-round. We just got a little bit of snow last night. Not too bad to drive in. We're going to see what's up here. Hopefully I can find something to photograph. If I don't finish this roll of film today, the adventure continues tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out a composition here. It's fairly cluttered. I'm thinking about using this kind of one tree as an anchor point for the composition. I really like the dusting of snow on these leaves. I do like the backdrop of all these other trees. It helps to add a lot of depth to the image. I'm not sure if I can make a composition that has balance. I'm going to try to get myself in there without getting too wet. I think it looks pretty good. I think I'm going to open this up just a little bit to make sure I get the darker elements with enough detail. The light is pretty even right now. I'm going to overexpose this for about half-salve. I tend to overexpose just a little bit anyway with negative film. If you're interested in the settings, what I've got going here is about a two-second exposure between F-16 and F-22, kind of going back and forth between the two. I think I'm going to shoot a couple frames and bracket this one just a little bit because the light keeps changing pretty quickly. It all of a sudden got kind of dark in here, so I'm probably going to have to change my exposure on my next frame. While I'm looking for another shot, I thought I would have a little chat. I probably talked too much. That's part of the connecting with the artist. I still haven't figured this YouTube thing out. The main reason I started my YouTube channel in the first place was to connect with an audience that might find something in my work, in my photography that they like or are drawn to. I thought YouTube might be kind of a good way to see who this person is behind the artwork, behind the photography, trying to navigate through it. It's easy to get sucked in by the numbers for the lack of, in my case. Videos like this one won't get a lot of views. That's just the way it is. When I go out and make photos, those videos are starting to be watched. These are the kind of videos I like to make the most because they're really the best representation of who I am as a photographer right now. So I was thinking when I'm doing these videos to highlight who it is that I'm watching right now on YouTube. Since this is a YouTube thing. Who am I watching? Who's inspiring me to spend 10 to 20 minutes watching on YouTube? So from time to time, I'd like to highlight in my videos who I'm, or mention anyway, who I'm watching. I mean, my channel's so small, it's not like they need media. I mean, viewers are away. So today, I'm watching a gentleman in the UK named Steve. I can't, or Butcher's last name, Onion, Onion, Steve Onion. He has about 15,000 subscribers. Not a huge channel. I really connect with his work. I really seem to connect with him as an artist. He seems to be a pretty hard working photographer. He shoots a lot of film. He does digital as well. There are some of his sensibilities in photography line up with mine when it comes to things like sharpness. Although he tends to like his grain a little more than I do. That's okay. So, if you're wanting to be inspired and you want to see some really good film-oriented landscape videos, give them out, check them out. It might be worth your time to have a look. Woodland photography, man. It can be so challenging. Here's the scene right here. I got to make a photo. I don't know what you think. There's got to be a shot here. Kind of waiting for the light to even out just a little bit. Kind of some hotspots on some of these trees. I move forward about, probably about 10 feet from where I nearly saw it and looked around. It's just, it's like a cathedral. It almost feels like a big place of worship, you know? I think the light's about right. I think I'm going to take the picture. I'm trying to find some detail shots with the snow on the foliage in a protected area where the wind's not too bad. I haven't found the shot just yet. I need to be able to isolate it from the background. I'm afraid that the snow is going to melt before I find my shot. I still haven't found my detail shot yet. I tracked it to this trail shot. Once again, I'm exploiting what this woods is offering. What's really offering me is a lot of really straight trees. So that's going to make up a lot of my compositions today. Something about being in the middle of these trees, these standard trees just really does it for me. This shot here is with a normal focal length. It's about 75mm on here. Compressing the trees just a little bit more than with a wide-angle lens. It's coming down pretty good now. It looks to be frozen, which is fine because I'd rather have that be frozen than get all wet. It looks more like ice pellets than sleep than it does snow. Well, it's all starting to look the same to me now. I'm not seeing a lot of compositions. It's just a little bit too much chaos in here. What I think I'm going to do is I'm getting kind of hungry and I'd like some coffee. I'm going to work my way back to the car and drive around a little bit. I still have a few shots in this roll. Let's see if I can find something on this road that I drove up. I passed a few potential shots on the way up. I'd like to save a couple of shots just to make sure I find something cool down there that I passed on the way up here. I'm going to end this video right here. The last frame has been shot and the adventure is over. This is the following morning when I started this video. It's been a lot of fun trying to get images to fill up this roll. It truly is an adventure every time. As I wrap up this video, I'm going to talk to Steve Onien's YouTube channel and subscribe, show him some love. He's working really hard over there. I'd like to see guys that are putting so much effort into their videos being rewarded for it. He's out in the field shooting with film. He's offering a lot of time, cost, expenses to bring some really good content to his subscribers and viewers. I'd love to see that effort rewarded. I'll head over and show him some love. For me, I'm going to wrap up and go home and get some coffee. Until next time, because you're coming along for the ride.