Hello and welcome to the Isle of Mull.
It’s my second full day here, day three of the trip.
Yesterday was a really good day and I’m looking forward to more today.
I’m going to change it up, just a little bit, today.
Yesterday was, actually, quite a difficult day because we were scouting out the island,
travelling around a lot, in and out of the car and I find that quite difficult.
It just might be the way I work: I'm not sure.
But I like to have a solid plan at the start of the day and that wasn't the case yesterday.
When you’re trying to shoot video at the same time as capture some great stills, it
can get a little bit difficult.
So I’m going to bring it back to basics a bit today and get out on foot and just explore
in a little bit more slow time to try and pick up an image that way.
There's lots to see and lots to do around here so I should be able to find a nice landscape.
The weather is much nicer today.
We’re lucky enough to have some sun here in the Isle of Mull, in January, so I'm pretty
fortunate for that.
So, I don’t want to waste any more time inside.
I’m going to get my kit together, get out and explore a little bit more.
let’s go.
Right, if this is how the day is going to go, then it’s going to go pretty well, I
think.
Already, I’ve stopped for a shot.
It is a little is a bit windier then I would have liked but I’ve already got my first
composition which includes this old seed drill or something; old farming equipment with the
scene behind me.
The good thing is I have literally come about 20 m from the house I’m staying in, which
is there, I’m over-exposed now because of the sun, but I’m pretty happy with that.
So, I’m using that as a bit of foreground interest then, hopefully, you can see that
road, just over my shoulder, and the trees here to add a bit of interest to the scene.
That should be quite a nice shot.
If it is, it’ll be a brilliant start to the day and, especially, when I’m so close
to the house.
Well, if the day’s going to go like this, I’m going to be stopping a lot.
Look at the scene behind me; absolutely stunning.
That is Bunessan in the Isle of Mull.
So, what I’ve done here is to capture a panorama of the scene.
The lighting isn’t perfect but, hopefully, the panorama stitches together nicely.
It will add to the story of my day and of this area.
Absolutely stunning though.
I'm having a great day already and I’ve only been out about 20 minutes.
If I’ve got two good shots in 20 minutes, I’m going to be very chuffed.
I’ll carry on walking.
I’m, actually, in a cemetery at the moment.
A very beautiful place.
If you’re going to be buried, this is not a bad place to be buried.
I’ll be as respectful as possible and then I will move on to another location.
Let’s go.
One of the things I really like about walking through a landscape like this is it puts me
much more in touch with the landscape and that allows me, personally, it might not count
for everybody, but for me, it allows me to understand the landscape better.
I feel like I can tell the story of that landscape better when I’m on foot as opposed to in
and out the car like was yesterday.
Not to say that isn’t a good way of doing it because, in a place like Mull, it is absolutely
massive.
So you’re not going to see it, unless you’re extremely fit, you’re going to cycle, you’re
not gonna see a place like this without using a car.
There’s just a little gap in the bushes here around me that, probably, almost certainly,
you wouldn't see in the car.
As I walked past, I noticed it and it’s opened up to this landscape behind me.
So, for this shot, it is not perfect shot by any means, but it's a nice landscape that’s
gonna tell the story of where I am a little bit.
It should turn into a pretty good image.
I've got these fields and that turbine thing there.
So, that's going to act as my foreground.
The light is changing now and again but there is some sunlight casting down onto the foreground
and I’m going to have the mountain back there in the image as well with a bit of the
loch as well in the middle ground there.
I’m going for a long exposure.
It is going to be, probably, about 2.5 minutes.
What a long exposure also does, because it’s a little bit cloudy and the light on the mountain
there behind me is casting shadows down onto that mountain, if you just did a single still
that would capture those shadows on the mountain.
But, because the clouds are moving, those shadows will not appear in the image.
It’ll just be nice and smooth and look well lit right over the mountain.
That’s true for the foreground as well.
That is really one of the big benefits of doing a long exposure, especially, on changeable
weather conditions like I have here today.
Right, so we’ve finished there.
I’m trying now to get into position for my sunset shot.
I haven’t, actually, got somewhere picked out but the difference today is I've taken
all the pressure off.
When you are in a place like this, it can become overwhelming to capture it.
So, that's why I came out on foot today just to take a little bit of pressure off.
I decided, at the start the day, even if I don't come back with that special image, I'm
not going to be that bothered.
I was happy, really happy with a couple of the images captured yesterday and the day
before.
So, I think I can allow myself a bit of pressure off just to enjoy the walk, just to enjoy
being outdoors today.
As I’ve been walking though, I've been stalking, pretty much, a buzzard.
there are lots of buzzards here.
They are interesting birds.
I have been stalking this one.
I am really trying to get it on film for you.
I have already captured this image of it though.
I was pretty pleased with it.
I do want to get a bit of video for you though as well.
If you're watching that now, you know I will have succeeded.
I’m getting a taste for this wildlife, cameraman type thing now.
I quite enjoyed with those otters yesterday.
Right, I’m in my sunset spot now.
It isn’t the perfect position but I am quite happy with it.
The reason it is not perfect is because, like I said earlier, Mull is just so big, where
I am and where I’ve walked today, there isn’t a scene like this that faces south.
The sun sets in the south-west today so that's really where I would be in a perfect world
is facing south-west with a nice vista in front of me.
But it’s not to be.
I’ve, actually, got the camera set up in a northerly position.
It is pointing out to the scene behind me which, I think, is a pretty good composition.
I'm using some of the rocks down here as the foreground and, hopefully, as the sunset progresses
and goes down below the horizon, possibly, I hope there will be some pinks and some yellows
in the clouds behind me anyway because the colours in the sky do go all around sometimes,
especially, on a day like today when there’s clouds everywhere.
It just has that kind of feel to the evening.
So, I’m really hopeful for a really nice sunset shot anyway.
Overall, I’ve had a really, really good day.
It’s been nice to get out on foot, have a walk, burn off some calories a bit because
me and my friend have been drinking a decent amount of wine.
I'm gonna hookup with Lyle again tomorrow.
Hopefully, he's got some good shots from today.
He’s been shooting the otters again.
So, it is going to be another good day tomorrow.
I’ve had a really good one today.
I feel really good.
The shots that I got today, they could be good, they may be brilliant or they may not
be anything.
I'm not 100% certain until you get back.
I’m really pleased with this composition.
I think that’s going to work really well.
Like I said before, one shot in a day should be enough to make you happy because there’s
lot of days in your life, there’s a lot of times you’re going to go out and, if
you picked up one shot in all those days, you would have a very, very good sized portfolio.
Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed today.
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I'm Adam, in the Isle of Mull…out.
Right, we’re into position for the final shot the day but maybe more than one shot
because this is an absolutely stunning location, all the way around those 360° views as always
are simply amazing.