Okay, so i'm at the peak, not a very big peak, of Spurn Point but I do have those 360°
views all the way around.
Hello.
Here we are again on another landscape photography mission.
The the plan today is to head over to the east coast.
The weather is looking pretty good again and so I’m hoping for an nice sunset shot on
the coast.
I’m going to a place called Spurn Point, which is strip of land that goes into the
Humber estuary.
It’s very thin It’s a nature reserve so I’m hoping to pick up a little bit of wildlife
photography as well.
I’m going to be taking the 400mm lens with me and I'll see what I can get.
I want a nice big sunset shot at the end of the day though, so I’m hoping the weather
and the cloud and the light and everything else plays ball.
That’s the plan for the day.
I’ve a reasonable drive head, so let’s go.
I’ve just stopped off to get a quick shot of what you can see behind and that is the
Humber bridge.
It’s a shot I’ve wanted for a while and while I’m testing out the wide-angle 11mm
lens.
I’m going to get right underneath the bridge and capture a shot.
It's not the best time of day.
It’s almost midday, the sun is high in the sky, it’s very, very bright.
It’s not the best conditions but I think I can use it to test that 11mm lens.
I’m just going to walk along and get into position.
I’ve got the camera set up.
I’m using that 11mm wide-angle and that is the shot behind me.
I'm really happy with the composition, actually.
It is a fairly obvious one but there we go.
I think the shot looks pretty good on its own but I’m going to come back tonight,
on the way home, and capture the same composition at night with a slightly longer exposure to
smooth out the water.
The tide should also be bit further in so I can get more of the water in.
I’m not heading out into that sludge.
I think it’s going to be an interesting shot.
Everything’s working really well with that 11mm wide-angle lens.
I’ve arrived and there is quite a lot of cloud come over.
So, I'm hoping that will lift a little bit in time for my sunset shot.
This place is pretty incredible, as you can see.
I’m going to be walking towards the lighthouse right over there in the distance.
That’s where I want to compose my sunset shot.
I’ve had a little look around and I don't think there is going to be much opportunity
for wildlife, at the moment.
It’s a little bit too early in the season.
So, let’s keep walking and see what we can see.
Now this is quite interesting.
Where I’m stood, at the moment, there used to be road here.
You can still see little bits of it.
Now, a few years ago, it got washed away by the sea so there is no longer vehicle access
right to the end of Spurn Point.
You have to be careful, if you come here, that you don’t get stranded on this bit
that I’m on now when it’s high tide.
This bit will go under water when it’s high tide.
I am going to get stranded on their briefly tonight but I’ll be able to get back after
high tide this evening.
One benefit of the clouds coming over is that we can use it to our advantage.
That comes in the form of long exposure, fine art photography.
Now, I’ve got a little composition set up here.
I'm going for an exposure of about 2 minutes 16 seconds and I'm using these poles, that
are sticking out of the sea, as my interest in the shot.
It’s going to be a composition of them, still, against the movement of the water and
the clouds that will create interest in that image.
It’s not the most complicated image but it will form a quite nice landscape shot.
I want to tell the story of this bit of Spurn Point where a lot of it, as you can see, has
been washed into the sea.
There’s flotsam and jetsam everywhere where the power of the sea has lifted that road
away and, every now and again, it has dumped a load of rubbish on to this beach.
I’m a little bit worried about the position that camera’s in as well.
The tide is starting to come in.
Hopefully, that two minutes will go quick.
You can see how this place is succumbing to the sea.
This path is, literally, falling into the sea.
Okay, So i'm at the peak, not a very big peak, of Spurn Point but I do have those 360°
views all the way around.
I've stopped here to get a time-lapse that includes the lighthouse there and the cloud
is starting to break.
There’s some nice light streaks coming through those clouds which will make the time-lapse
really interesting.
I’d like that cloud to break a little bit more towards the end of the day so I can get some nice colour in the sky
I said ‘colour in the sky’ a lot in the last video… but get some nice colour in the sky
for a beautiful seascape, sunset shot.
That’s the plan but I just need to wait and see what those clouds do.
I’ve stopped right by the lighthouse because I wanted to get it in a shot to tell the story
of the lighthouse here at Spurn Point.
What I’m going for, I’ve got the camera set on the tripod, pointing right up at the
top of the lighthouse because I’m going for that fine art, sort of architectural type
shot.
The clouds are breaking up really nicely.
So, they’re moving across the top of the image, as I go for a 10 to 15 second long
exposure with a 10 stop filter on there.
It’s going to produce some nice results.
Once I turn that into a black-and-white shot, I think it will make a nice, fine art style
shot.
That’s the plan, anyway.
Spurn Point has one of the only full-time staffed lifeboat centres.
Because of where it is, it covers a large part of the east coast.
It is totally supported by donations and, I imagine, it is very, very bleak out here,
when the weather is not good.
So, full respect to those guys at the R.N.L.I.
I’m right at the tip of Spurn Point.
I can not imagine what it is like here when the weather is bad.
It feels pretty lonely today.
I am right out in the middle of the sea on what is, essentially, an island, apart from
that causeway that I walked over before.
I am, actually, a little bit unnerved.
The other thing, the other problem I have - I’m just capturing another time-lapse
there.
That big tanker there is about to go past.
It should look cool in the time-lapse.
One thing I'm concerned about though is the story, the story of Spurn Point.
Even if I get some nice colour in the sky for the sunset, this beach could be anywhere.
I don't feel like I’m going to capture the essence of Spurn Point.
There is only that tiny, little bit of colour there.
So, what I might do, once I’ve captured the time-lapse, go back to the lifeboat station,
that I walked past to get here, and try and capture something there.
I haven't found that killer composition.
I haven’t been here before so there’s been parts of it that have been a bit of a
scouting mission but I haven't found the right composition that I want for this seascape.
I wanted to get some of the land in the shot, as well.
Where I was before with the lighthouse, I thought that was going to be the point but
it just hasn't worked out quite like that.
The walk back is going to be pretty brutal, as well, in the dark, across that causeway.
But that’s the sort of …. it’s not dangerous, there’s no danger involved… that is the
sort of effort you have to go to to capture some great landscape photography, even though
I haven't quite got that perfect shot…yet.
I’m certain I’ve got a couple of good shots today.
I’m hoping I’ll get a couple more.
But, so far, great day, great day.
Right I've got the Canon set up for the sunset shot.
It is not, exactly, the composition I wanted.
I’ve got the lifeboat ramp here on one side and the sun setting at the other side.
I’ve gone for slightly long exposure.
Six stop filter on there to smooth out that water a bit and maximise the colour in the
sky.
Like I say though, it’s not not quite the composition I want.
I’d like to get out down onto this beach, actually, and get the lifeboat in there, as
well, but both of those things having haven’t proven possible.
So, it has been a great day though.
I’ve had a really good time.
This place is crazy.
It is well worth a visit: very strange place.
Something I've not experienced before.
It has created a strange feeling in me as well: a little bit of isolation.
I am much more a mountain man then I am a coast-man but there we go, that’s just me.
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