 Well, it's that time to look back over the year take stock on what's been accomplished and the lessons learned My name is David Patton When I started photography, I wanted to make art But with bills to pay and a family to feed I Decided it would be better to be a working photographer and 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 Come along as I follow my passion trying to create art that shows the essence of nature in a photograph I'll be sharing my successes and my failures in hopes to inspire and educate This is my journey, this is riding the edge This is something I've done for many years Long before I had a YouTube channel when I was working as a professional photographer In a pretty fast-paced job At the end of every year, we would put together our favorite photos And it gives a chance to kind of slow down and Take in what we've been That's something that I've kept going Since I've left journalism. I think there's a lot of value that can be had in sitting down and Assessing how the year went if I had to sum up The year 2022 in a short sentence It would be It was the year of the zine and 35 millimeter So last year while looking back at 2021 I Realized that most of my photography that I really liked That I felt like kind of represented me as a photographer Was shot in 35 millimeter So at the beginning of 2022 I decided I was going to consolidate Loading a roll of film into a new camera is like coming home Back to where it all started The beginning of my photographic journey in the spirit of exploration in the spirit of discovery That's where it all started for me And it started with a roll of 35 millimeter film My digital was 35 millimeter so I decided my film would be 35 millimeter as well So early in the year It was about testing I was testing new cameras film Film developers just trying to get it dialed in before I really got serious about Going out with 35 millimeter film I did a comparison between Ilford's Delta 100 and Kodak's T-Max 100 to see what differences the were between them and to see if those differences were enough To make me lean one direction or the other I've got to say before doing this comparison. I had a lot of preconceived ideas on how these films would compare I think a lot of that came from Reading photography forums and I just kind of got this general idea of how Delta 100 would compare to T-Max 100 What I expected from Delta 100 was a nice tonal range But something that was grainier than T-Max 100 I do think the tonality of Delta 100 is a little bit different than T-Max 100 Not drastically to me it feels just a little punchier, maybe a little bit more contrast. They both scan very well Where I thought I would see the biggest difference was in the grain and in this comparison I was really surprised at how well Delta 100 stood up against T-Max 100 In fact, some of the frames I felt like Delta 100 might have had a slightly finer grain than the T-Max 100 That's something I really did not expect. I used the yellow filter on this image of this covered bridge And it looks to me like the Delta 100 showed the effects of the yellow filter just a little bit more I mean, we're talking slightly and once again, there are a lot of variables that could play into that But for this one image, it did look like the blues in the sky was slightly darker With the Delta 100. It really doesn't do me that good to analyze every exposure or every frame In this comparison because they're so similar and I don't think you're gonna see that much difference on YouTube You're gonna just have to trust my eyes when I say I see a slight difference Although this is pretty anti-climatic This comparison has helped me decide what film I'm gonna be using and I'm happy to say I would use either one of these films. A lot of it will be just what's available to me What's the most affordable? It feels good to know that no matter which one I pick I'm gonna be able to use it and get excellent results from it. If a picture doesn't turn out It's not gonna be because of the film. I could scroll through and point out different aspects of these Images, but there's really nothing in them that I couldn't change It's just very workable film. It's very manageable when I scan a negative I don't expect to get the final image in the scan. I expect to get a working file It's kind of like a raw image. I want to make sure it's just it has enough Detail in the highlights and in the shadows and then I when I once I get it into my editor I make the fine adjustments so often Photographers or people want you to pick a side. It's always got to be a side Canon versus Nikon PC versus Mac Well Delta 100 versus Tmax 100. It's it's kind of a draw, you know, just whatever you like A lot of it just depends on your shooting style and how you develop your film And over the year, I've had a few cameras go down and one of our subscribers Robert Gully sent me an 80 to To help out the channel And I also went out and bought a Nikon F5 Something a little more robust Built more like a tank on those days where I didn't want to have to worry about rain and that kind of thing I've got a new zine. I've got a new zine And it's in color. I did three zines over the year. It's a pretty productive year for me. I Started with a retrospective type zine Focusing on the color photography idea in my early years It was photography all shot on 35 millimeter slide film Besides me one you see it in print. I Thought there might be some photographers out there who hadn't used slide film or printed with it. I Thought it'd be a be nice to show What it what it can look like in print in a magazine format. I thought it turned out pretty good my second zine Was focused on cover bridges in Oregon It was a black-and-white zine It was an issue of my sing monochrome My third and final zine of the year Was a summer project This focused on a creek the area around the creek in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains So the idea was to focus on this area and photograph it throughout the summer give myself a deadline for this project It was a summer project. So it started at the end of June then ended in September So it gave me a chance to get out to the creek and the areas around the creek Quite a few times. It's probably the most productive. I've been in summer in a long time It's not my favorite season to make photographs This zine project also ended up being a eight-part video series on this channel making a zine If you haven't seen it might want to check it out This project was a hundred percent 35 millimeter black-and-white film. It's first all black-and-white film project I think I've done if you haven't seen any of these zines I'll leave a link in the description You can preview them for free. I I Love it when people get a chance to see my work So head on over there So after my last zine, I Decided it was time to take a break from zines for a while Three in one year for me is a pretty pretty good amount pretty productive so I decided I'll take a break from zines for a while and Focus on the print. I used to sell prints on my website years ago I was never happy with how I had it set up. So this year I want to get that now down Want to figure out what sizes I want to do What I want to print it on and come up with a working plan to share my prints So if 2022 was the year of the zine, I'm hoping 2023 will be the year of the print So to end today's video, I thought I'd show some of my favorite images of the year. It's been a pretty interesting year It's been productive It's been very rewarding And I appreciate you coming along So until next time thanks for coming along for the ride