Look it's coming, let's go..... bracketing, two
second timer, bang, bang, bang there we go
Hello and here we are again ready to
capture some beautiful landscape
photography. Today I'm going to be
heading up to Grimwith reservoir in the
Yorkshire Dales it's a man-made
reservoir which is surrounded by some
really beautiful scenery and I'm hoping
to capture some of that today I've been
there a couple of times before but today
I really want to make the best of it.
The weather is not looking too bad today
actually it's overcast but it is forecast
to clear up a little bit later on in a
day especially around sunset time so
hopefully I'll end up with some
beautiful light some nice colour in the sky
that I can capture in a beautiful sunset
photograph. The good thing is now it is
this we're well into the spring so the
days are getting longer you can start to
achieve more with your day I've already
got lots of work done already today and
now I can head out and really start to
capture some beautiful landscape
photography that's the plan anyway
hopefully things will go right for me
today I do have a little bit of a
journey ahead of me as well so let's go
Right I've arrived and it's the weather
today is a lot better than I thought it
was going to be I wasn't expecting to
have this much blue sky so hopefully
that will hold out at the moment I'm
capturing a time lapse because I like to
get something in the bag early, and for me at
the moment, that is time lapses one thing
that makes these vlogs really difficult
to film though is the wind and it's just
so windy again today thankfully I've got
my new sound setup, but it does
affect your photography as well
particularly if you're using a tripod and
particularly on time lapses in fact because
even with a sturdy tripod like this manfrotto
055 you're still going to get
a lot of movement in the camera between
frames with this type of wind so I
managed to lock the tripod pretty much
against this wall here so hopefully that
should get it as sturdy as possible to
really get that nice time lapse effect
I'm going to have a walk around the
reservoir to try and find some really
nice compositions to make for a couple of
nice shots and then hopefully a really
impressive sunset shot towards the end
of the day because like i said the
weather is holding quite nicely at the
moment if it continues the weather's
changed on me a bit recently so
hopefully that what happened today then
i can get a really nice shot
so I don't know how familiar you are
with the Yorkshire Dales but it's peppered with
these beautiful reservoirs they're all
run by Yorkshire Water and they provide free
car parking and they're just great
places to visit. Whether you want to
have a walk but they're great for
photography as well some stunning
locations they're all quite remote as
well so it's never too busy there's not
a lot of people around if that's your
type of thing but well worth the visit
A few minutes later
I got to the top ready for some 360 degree views
and forgot to turn my new microphone setup on
[No audio]
I said something very inspirational
and explained I was going to capture the scene as a panorama
panoramas I am going to capture the
whole scene because it's very very wide and
i wanted to get the whole thing in the
scene when i'm capturing my panoramas i
will generally handhold it especially at
this time of the day when the Sun is
fairly high in the sky I don't want to
waste my time setting up my tripod when
I can just do it as effectively
handheld so the way I do it is I will
stand with my leading foot forward which in
my case is my left leg. Just plant it firm
and then you compose your shot and then
you expose for the brightest part of the
image and then you just stick with that
exposures you need to do in manual
manual mode and then you just move
around. So, my brightest point is over
here so I'm going to start here I've got
my exposure I just leave it in autofocus
I don't get any focus shift at this
distance and then just start swinging
round I'm at 70 millimeters because you
don't want to go too wide otherwise
you'll end up with just a thin band of
detail across your image you also want
to shoot vertical to maximize the detail
in the scene and then just overlap by
about a third in each scene. So you're going to end
up with quite a few shots it might take
some time to put together in Lightroom
but they will end up as very impressive
images it take some time to put them
together but it's just definitely worth
it with a scene like this where it's so
it's going to work really well I'm
excited I'm excited to see what this one
will turn out like
I found a nice little composition I've
already got the camera set up and I at the
moment I'm shooting a long exposure of
about two minutes i'm using this little
creek here on this little stream that is
running into the reservoir as my leading
line there is a little bit of shadow in
it because the Sun is now coming down in
the sky so I'm starting to get a warmer
quality of light which is working for
the image but it is casting a little bit
of shadow down there hopefully that's
not too much of a problem. There's not much colour
in the sky yet but I just love the colour
of that water it's so deep it's a deep
blue and with a nice saturated blue in
the sky I think it will work is a really
nice image I'm at f/16 to get everything
in focus I could have probably done f/11
but f/16 suits the long exposure a little
bit better and then like I said I'm
shooting it for about two minutes to
smooth out that water get a little bit
of movement in the clouds and of course
i'm at ISO 100 to keep the noise level
as low as possible i'm also going to
shoot it without it being a long
explosion see which one works better
because there is a little bit of
wildlife moving around in the foreground
so it won't be bad having that in there
as well some geese and ducks and things so
that could work well as well but I might
actually put both up and let me know
which one you like best down in the
comments
right so I've found a cracking little
composition using this tree here as the
interest in the shot and then you can
see from the camera just down here you
can see the reservoir in the background
and then the Sun is just poking through
that tree because coming nice and low in
the sky now I've got some nice golden
light on this grassy beach area here I
think it's just going to be a really
nice shot making the best of the light
stunning area as well and it's really
really nicely telling the story of this
area around Grimwith Reservoir so
settings wise I've got the camera on the
tripod because I bracketing because it's
I've got the Sun in the shot and I want
to get that golden light and I don't
particularly want the tree to be too
silhouetted. A few of you were asking me about
bracketing on the last video I do have a
tutorial on how to do so I'll link that
up so you can check it out if you don't
know what bracketing is but settings
wise i am at f/11, shutter speed the
normal shutter speed of around 1/100 and
then two stops either side of that with
the shutter speed, and i'm at ISO 100 again to keep
that noise nice and low that blue in the
water.... I just can't get enough of it today
it looks absolutely dreamy good enough
to drink and it also makes you want to
have a swim but I'm a hundred percent
certain that that water is very very
cold. Right it's getting a bit later in
the day now I'm but a little bit worried
I'm going to run out of time to get
round the reservoir back to the other
side where I want to get my composition
sorted for the sunset and I found
another little shot earlier that I want
to do as well so this is the thing
though with landscape photography as it
starts to get to the end of the day the
tension heightens, that golden
hour you need to make the most of it and
there's always a lot of pressure to make
sure you do that
right I've just stopped to get a shot of
this old house here. The camera is set up, I'm
just going to bracket it straightforward
shot that I'm not going to talk through. What I
want to say is I'm starting to get a
little bit concerned about the weather
it started to cloud over as you can see
and there is a band of cloud coming over
on the horizon that dreaded band of
cloud. So I'm hopeful just to have a
little break at the end of the day so I
can get some really beautiful colour in
the sky because I'm going to go up in a
minute and get a nicer view point down
onto the reservoir, onto the dam and
that I think will be my final
composition of the day if the Sun plays
ball I also need the Sun to come out for
this shot because when I composed it
with some beautiful golden light on the
ancient house here now there isn't so
I'm just going to wait is it coming good
now let's hope so. Look it's coming, let's
go, bracketing, two second timer
bang, bang, bang....... there we go
Right, I'm composed for the last shot of
the day I decided to go for the
horizontal shot the one thing the shot
really needs though is to be able to see
the Sun as it's going below the horizon
line, so it's casting some of that golden
light on this grass because this green
mossy grass just becomes absolutely
beautiful when it gets that golden light
on it without that i do not think the
shot will work because the foreground
would just lose too much interest you
still have the reservoir this side and
the colour in the sky but it's what's
going to make the shot is having that
golden light on this green mossy grass
it' now just a waiting game there is a
little gap between the cloud and the
horizon at the moment so hopefully that
will remain for when the Sun hits that
spot and that will be the very small
moment when I capture the shot so if
you see the shot at the end, with some
beautiful golden light you will know
that it has worked. Again I have worked really
hard today. There has been quite a lot of
shots so I'm gonna have a lot of work to
do processing them. I've got a couple of time
lapses but I do hope you have enjoyed the
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Man Photography in the Yorkshire Dales at
Grimwith Reservoir
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