A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 and Ilford Pan F for landscape photography. Is this video, Stephen uses Ilford Pan F Plus 50 for B&W landscape photography in the far north of New Zealand. All the images were taken with his Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera and to make sure he gets correct exposures for his black and white film, he use his Sekonic light meter to take spot meter readings.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer tutorial New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner talks how to scan slide film at home. Scanning colour slide film is easy with the right guidance and tools. In this tutorial I will show you how to scan colour slide film with my Epson V800 flatbed scanner and Silverfast software, so that you can digitalise your slide film and edit the it in Lightroom or Photoshop. Watch this tutorial video on how to scan slide film   Watch this tutorial video on how to colour calibrate your scanner  

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner in nominated for a landscape photography award. In 2019 I entered a selection of my images from the past year into the Fine Art Photography Awards Competition in three separate series’. Unfortunately, I didn’t win however I was fortunate enough for all be entries to be nominated. As my good friend Richard Massey says if you want to catch the big one your line has to be in the water. All the images entered in to the competition were taken using the Mamiya 7 medium format film camera system.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer tutorial New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner talks photography equipment in is tutorial blog series  HOW TO TAKE LANDSCAPE PHOTOS - TEN STEPS TO CREATING SUCCESSFUL LANDSCAPE IMAGES. For a list of landscape photography equipment that I use, please check out My Gear List. When I plan my landscape photography trips, the two aspects I consider the most are light and composition. There is a trip planning process that I go through that investigates potential subjects to understand when will be the best time to visit a location. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to check out my tutorials on light and composition and trip planning because they are essential to study before choosing your photography equipment. In this tutorial, I will share how...

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A New Zealand landscape photographer medium format film camera review New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner reviews the Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera. The Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera system is awesome for landscape photography. Take a look at my review of this system, which includes sample photographs taken with it and its 50mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses. Stephen used the Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera for my landscape photography work in 2020. In this video there is a slide show of his images taken with the Mamiya 7 and three of its lenses. He talks about its general features, lens options, things he likes, what he thinks are the shortcomings of the system, and why he...

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 A new Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 and Cinestill 800T for night time cityscape photos of Auckland City. In this video I shoot Cinestill 800T with my Mamiya 7 medium format rangefinder camera.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Mamiya 7 with Ilford Delta 400 to for Landscape Photography. Ilford Delta 400 is a versatile B&W film. In this video he tests it out with his Mamiya 7 for landscape photography.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner talks scanning film at home with a digital camera. Is scanning film with a digital camera the future. In this video, I compare scanning colour negatives, black and white negatives, and colour slide film with a digital camera, and Negative Lab Pro with a flatbed scanner and Silverfast. I also share with you my process for editing colour slide film that has been scanned with a digital camera using IT8 Colour charts in Lightroom.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer story New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner uses the Hasselblad 503CW for the first time. The Hasselblad 503CW was my camera in 2020 / 2020. In this video. I take it out to do some local photography with Ilford HP5 black and white film for the first time. The 503CW is a medium format film camera, it has interchangeable film backs and it makes 6 x 6 square format images.

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A New Zealand landscape photographer tutorial New Zealand landscape photographer Stephen Milner shows you how to scan colour negative film at home using an Epson V800 flatbed scanner. Scanning colour negative film at home is easy when you have the right guidance and tools to do so. In this tutorial video, I will show you my approach to scanning colour negative film with my Epson V800 flatbed scanner and Silverfast software, so that you can digitalise your film and edit your image in Lightroom or Photoshop.

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