Hello I've got a good day of landscape photography coming up today and it's
also my first YouTube collaboration. I'm excited let's go.
So i've arrived and I've already got the camera set up I've been here before last time though as he may
have seen on the vlog in January I got caught by some horrendous weather. The wind
turned on me, it was difficult conditions slightly dangerous but I wanted to get
down off that mountain pretty quickly. I do have though, with me today, a very
special guest all the way from Australia another excellent landscape photographer
also youtuber and that, if you can see him just up there, he's about to put the drone up....
is Andrew Marr..... let's go have a chat to him. So here he is, Andrew Marr, Hi Andrew
how you doing?
really well thanks
brilliant to have you here very pleased
to have you in the UK. What's your impression of the Lake District so far then?
It's unbelievable look at the views we have nothing like this in Australia the
mountains are high so I need my legs to to climb up them
don't worry my fitness is not good
yeah the the vistas are just magnificent and
I can't wait to get the camera out and take some landscapes.
so we've got a good
walk ahead of us today, good to do a bit of a landscape photographer
collaboration as well..... I'm excited so it should be really good day.
We've just stopped for our first shot of the day, we've already got pretty high up
Andrew is just over that ridge there getting some shots but I'm set up here
and we've come across some paragliders in the distance over the
water there and they're filling the sky in this area here it's making a really
nice image I've got the 70 to 200 on the front of the camera I'm at 200
millimetres to get me as close as possible to those paragliders. At 200
millimetres they are filling the sky with that mountain backdrop as they're
swirling around on its own is a landscape shot it wouldn't have worked
but with the sky full of those paragliders I think it's going to work out
into just a nice little interesting image that's really going to add to the
story of the of the day. I'm also gonna try and get a wistful shot of Andrew
up on this ridge here I think that'll look cool
the beauty of shooting with somebody else is like I said before if you put
two landscape photographers in the same place they're going to come up with
something different andrew has decided to hike up the side
of this cliff just a little bit to get a slightly different composition looking
down on the spot where I've shot a image before I talk through that on Andrews
video do make sure that you check out his channel there's some top-notch stuff
on there he is a great great landscape photographer do make sure you head over
to Andrews Channel watch his video from this trip make sure you subscribe to
his channel as well and then you can see the difference between my shot and his shot
i'll put them up after he's talked through that shot.
what I've tried to do is use
the tarn and the lake as a bit of a leading line and it zigzags from the
left-hand side through the middle of the image and then around back through to
the left-hand side again way off in the distance. As you can see
around me the light is starting to come out and I'm getting this beautiful sunlight
hitting the mountains in the background I've gone with a 24-70mm, i'm at 40mm
at the moment it gives me a nice little composition of getting a little
bit of a rock in at the right hand side as well of that as you can see I've got
two graduated filters they're soft graduated filters because of the uneven
horizon that's to bring down the light in the sky and to make sure that I can
bring up the exposure in the foreground as much as I possibly can
get that detail in this beautiful grass and these sensational rocks
giving me a fantastic composition on the right so I'll grab the remote and we'll
take that shot and see what it looks like
so we've made it to the top and I do have some 360-degree views but you've
seen these ones before
it's pretty windy...the weather has moved in just around the
time I've reached the top...
three hundred.... on dodgy ground.....three hundred and s......
we've made it to the top and at the top
you get one thing and that is 360 degree views all the way around
I wasn't planning to actually shoot anything at the top here but Andrew is
off taking a shot, so what I thought I'd do is try and figure out what the best
way is to shoot this time.... Tarn.... time.... Tarn. I got a shot of it last time when it was
completely frozen from up at the cairn at the top of the mountain I've come down
more to the tarn level now. I'm shooting more in a different direction out across
the tarn here behind me just to try out a slightly different composition because
it's actually quite a tricky little spot to really tell the story of how
impressive this tarn is. I'm basically using some of the rocks in the foreground here
which are starting to get lit up by this afternoon sunshine. We're around 6 o'clock now
it's not quite the golden hour yet but it is starting to warm up really nicely so
I've got the the rocks at the other side leading you in in a little bit of shadow
because the light is going straight across the scene so there is going to be
a bit of contrast.... probably a little bit too much contrast in there I may be able to
rescue the shadows a little bit in post but we'll have to see. It is just such an
impressive sight though so I'm hoping with the composition I've got that will
translate over into the image. Anyway it's nice to get a shot up here at the
top I wasn't particularly planning on that like it said but I'm happy I did
because I love the light on the rocks at this side of the tarn is really starting to
look absolutely beautiful I'm hoping it will be a good shot
the trek back down today is absolutely stunning. I have another tarn here
sensational evening, beautiful blue sky [distracted by shouting] and I'm having a really good time
photography wise it isn't going to be 100% perfect....
I've got someone shouting at me up on a hill here I think she's lost so we're going to go
and help her
so here we are, last shot of the day the weather although it's been beautiful
there's not a single cloud in the sky now so I've just got this very very
simple composition set up, but it will put the last chapter to mine and Andrews
excellent excellent day. The Sun is just dipping beyond the mountain now so I'm
just going to bracket one more shot and there is a little bit of colour in
distance.... a few reds, a few Pink's and I might be able to draw that out just a touch in
post-processing but still it's not going to be an awarding.....an award winging.....an
....award-winning
so it's been an absolutely fantastic fantastic day. The Lake District, it just
there's something new and something surprises you every single time you come
here, today photography wise, for me today it actually hasn't been about the
photography I've captured a couple of decent shots which I'm pleased with
having Andrew here with me, showing him around, he doesn't need any help
photography wise that's for certain but it's been absolutely brilliant being out
with someone. I've spent the vast majority of the winter coming out by myself. You
get that solitude, you get that time to think
reminisce, all the sorts of thing you get to do in your head and it really does you
good. But coming out with somebody especially when they're a landscape
photographer, on a walk like this in this kind of landscape is just
absolutely inspiring and I've got to know Andrew really well today and I've
got a new mate. I can't say enough what a good day I've had and a lot of that is
thanks Andrew....it's been great collaborating with him do make sure you subscribe to
his channel check out his video that'll be going up
at the same time as this one. Thank you to you Andrew as well, really really great
day with you.
I hope you enjoyed the video I'm going to end the vlog there please
do leave a comment down below let me know you think. Do you want to see me do
more collaborations with other landscape photographers, other youtubers
I'd love to hear from you.
but here we are again......i;m gonna stand up as per usual
I'm Adam
this is First Man Photography, that's Andrew Marr, in the Lake District
Out!!!