Ahhh the weather! what is going on?
It's one of those days when the weather isn't
great it's changeable it's windy it's rainy there's also some sunny spells
it's those kind of days though where nothing could happen or something
absolutely epic could happen......so let's go
I'm just gonna stop the video there for a minute and let you know that I'm
really not happy with the way this shoot went I think it's still gonna be a good
video for you but I really really struggled and I'm not particularly happy
with the images I got including this one here. I'll let the video run and then
we'll come back and I'll explain exactly what I don't like about the images.
Well here I am in the absolutely absolutely incredibly beautiful Wast Water in the
Lake District just look at these mountains all around me even minutes
from the car park I've got those three hundred........ weather-wise though ah it's frustrating
today very frustrating as you can see there isn't any light at the moment
although over there behind me there is a bit coming in off the sea these showers
and these clouds the forecast is saying that they're gonna be sporadic it's
gonna rain heavily then be sunny we're gonna get all the seasons pretty much in
one day what I might do is start with a shot here
then I'm going to climb a little way up this mountain here just to get a view
down on the lake a little bit see if I can get a shot there but it was a long drive I'm
already tired lots of narrow windy roads to get here
but yeah, I'm gonna take in some of this fresh air and really enjoy my day right I'm just
having a bit of a explore along the shoreline here for the first shot of the
day there's this pretty beautiful Gorse bush here and I want to.....or it seems silly not
not to get it into the shot because there's a lot of cloud it's quite dull I
think to put some of its beautiful bright yellow color into an otherwise grey
greeny shot, I think it's gonna work really well for the image but it's just the
case of trying to find the right composition because there's nothing
obvious if we go back here a little bit I'll come back for the camera in a
second the Gorse kind of has this natural curve and I like that as well
because that's gonna lead you in I think to the mountains in the background but....
no that is gonna work.... right I'm gonna go and get my bag and the tripod and move
back a bit.
Right bag, close that up
this bag is so heavy even with two cameras and the tripod not in there any
longer I'm sure you must do this sometimes. Back here I think. right so let me
turn around so you can see I love that curve I want that in my image and I also
want that mountain in the image the foreground here isn't particularly
interesting there is also the road coming along behind the Gorse bush but that
Gorse bush hides that as well so that's pretty good right I think maybe if we go
down low we might be able to make this work
right trying to get setup quickly now
I've got tiny bit of blue starting to creep into the image and I want to want to
capture that so I've got the camera really low down now...... right I need to I
need to shoot it I think it's gonna be an all-round nice image.....
I am struggling though I'm not gonna lie I am struggling today that drive really took it out of
me I'm tired from the kids not sleeping but.... there's color all over the place the
light has changed again you've got to be so on top of things
Ahhh the weather.... what is going on? It's seriously seriously got me down we've
gone from winter to summer in one day and then back to a very wet and cold
spring uh I'm ready for some beautiful blue skies. Conditions where you can sit
on the top of a fell on a rock in a t-shirt and just enjoy it. I'm not one to
complain usually but I've had enough. Have you? Has anyone else? Becasue I have!
right I'm just capturing a time-lapse of this scene here. An interesting point about
some gear. The GoPro here with the GoPro Hero 6 it has voice control if you
saw some of those shots in the car that was used by sticking the GoPro to the
windows screen and then using voice control to turn it on and start
recording so GoPro turn on it's on there you see GoPro record and it starts
recording GoPro stop recording got a pole GoPro turn off
gopro stop recording GoPro turn off well it's not perfect but
Okay so I'm set up for my last shot of the day and I've got to a really nice little
spot as I'm climbing up a you Yewbarrow mountain and it's nice and sheltered from
the wind and there's these amazing rocks here in the foreground which just then
lead into that absolutely stunning view that I have behind me there the light
has come absolutely beautiful as well just look at it now with these rocks
here casting long shadows into the foreground there and then there's a
little bit of light on the mountain behind me as well which I'm just gonna
capture another frame it's all going on again I've got the Sun going into the
lens as well so I'm just using my hand to block out the Sun a little bit. Lets have a
look at that. Ah...my hand got in that a little bit, try again, I'm bracketing because there's
a big amount of dynamic range in there as well as you might be able to see
let's have a look at .......ah hand in it again....let's try again... see if that worked
looking good yeah just just an absolutely classic Lake District scene
composition wise I've got the rocks here with that beautiful golden light on it
leading you round this side then I'm getting the lake coming off the
bottom left-hand side of the image with the mountains in the background there
and then just leading up into the distant view there and you can see to
Sea in the scene as well and I'm just overcome with good emotion about this
It isn't the great shot in the world because I don't usually like it when I'm
such a big body of water sort of leads you in like that but it's just wide
epic view of the Lake District and that's kind of what I wanted today it's
sunny it's not too cold I'm sheltered from the wind so it's just
a really quite stunning way to finish the day.
Settings wise I'm at f/16, ISO100, 1/8
of a second with two stops either side for the bracketing and then I have a
polarizer on the front as well to take some of the glare off the water
so yeah those two images I don't know what it is I had a similar sort of issue
last year when I really just started to struggle with my landscape photography
and it seems to be happening again this year I don't know why it is just
yesterday I just wasn't focused probably saw that a little bit on the video and I
just I'm not particularly happy with the images I got. The first one I really
dislike that image I don't really know what I was trying to achieve it's composed
badly the gorse bush doesn't even look good it's not very well balanced across
the image and yeah just I don't like it whatsoever but I thought it's gonna be
useful for you to just see that not every picture I take is perfect and this
second image here it's okay it's good but it's just not really what I wanted
from the day I don't like particularly the lake coming in like is in the
picture the light on the rocks isn't quite what I wanted I could have done
with the Sun coming in from the other side so it's, like I say, it's good I just
don't love it and I'm not feeling any any passion for it I think that's where
photography really starts to become an art because it's about the feelings and
the emotions you put into it and I just don't think I've managed to do that
there it's just a photographer who's set up his camera and snapped a shot and
that's kind of how it feels to me I don't feel connected to that bit of work
and that's just how I feel about it. Anyway I'm gonna cut back to me in the Lake District
to finish this one off.
So my day is coming to a close but what a stunning
day what a great day and I would love to hear from you down in the comments I'll see
you another one very very soon, subscribe to the channel if you haven't
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I'm Adam this its first man photography in the absolutely, I'm going up here for
this..... stunning Wast Water
Out!!
GoPro turn off..... GoPro stop recording
I filmed a little piece to camera earlier on
about using your drone in the mountains when it's really windy....but I'm going to do it anyway.
and I stuck the landing as well.