Hello and welcome.... today I am out on another landscape photography mission
but I'm also today going to be shooting some wildlife photography.... I've come to
Seahouses in Northumberland I'm going over to the Farne Island's to capture some
puffins so it should be a really great day
so come with me
Ok, so we've arrived and just suffered a massive downpour but it was an
incredible journey over here. You saw those seal's and all those birds on the cliffs
absolutely unbelievable but I'm here now, it's not great weather, it's raining it's
due to clear later so it should be OK for the landscape photography shots. What I'm going to do
is I'm going for three shots I want one with a sort of Puffin portrait I'm
only really interested in the puffins if I am honest I want the second one with a
portrait with fish in the mouth of the puffins as well because they dive down
into the sea and pull those fish out.... and then the third one I want to try and
capture a bird in flight I've done a tutorial before about how to capture
birds in flight so you might want to check that out if it's something
you're interested in but that's what I'm going to do today.
Grim conditions though, I hope it does improve especially for the landscape
stuff later on, but i am gonna get the big lens out now and see what I can do.
right at the moment I'm trying to capture some birds in flight I've got
the Canon 400mm f/5.6 L lens on, settings wise I'm at 1/1600 of a second shutter speed
puffins are quite fast so you need to get that shutter speed up as much as
possible. I'm then at f/8 just to increase the depth of field as well just
to maximize my chances of getting that eye in sharp focus which is what I'm
going for. I'm then at an ISO of about 1250 just to balance out the exposure for
the lighting conditions that we've got today. It's tough though, it's tough capturing
birds in flight I'm trying to use the tower that I have over here to get that
into the left-hand side of the frame get the bird flying through on the
right-hand side of the frame and hopefully that will generate just a
little bit more interest into the shot so it's not just that sort of bright sky
in the background which was not what I'm looking for I do also have a few shots
of a puffin flying in front of this grass so that should be a pretty nice image as
well. So far I think I'm doing ok. I'm gonna try now and capture a few more also
what I didn't mention, is you need to be in AF-Servo mode because you want to be able to track
those birds through as they're flying past......... here we go
Right, so bird in flight shot in the bag now I'm now going to do the portrait. There's
these green leaves that cover the nests where the puffins make their nest under
the ground and the key to getting a really nice shot is to get down low and
as the puffins pop out of the nest you can get a really nice portrait. They'l stand
there, have a look around before they take off to catch more fish. You get the
nice blur in the foreground, you get the puffin nice and sharp in the middle of
the frame and then below out the background into that background blur and
that makes a really great shot it's about getting down low though, so you can
get along the ground to get that shot. I've already captured
one and it definitely helps to be wearing some kind of raincoat because
I've just been showered in at the back by some other birds doing their business
but I'm going to capture that shot now so I've got a nice line through the
leaves here to a puffin that's just stood there posing really nicely for me so I
just I'm going to go vertical on this one slightly different settings for the
portrait. I'm at about 1/500 of a second which is enough
to get that eye nice and sharp I'm down to f/5.6 to get
the minimum depth of field and get that nice background blur and then I am at
ISO 500 that's just..... you're just using your ISO really to balance out the
exposure and because it's quite dark today, it's overcast so I'm at ISO 500, so let's
capture that shot now...... perfect!!
Right our time on the island is done, we've got to get back on the boat now
and then, got a little gap in the day probably we're gonna get some food and
then we're gonna hang on in this area and find a really nice landscape for tonight
it should be really good one word of warning when you come to this place is
some of these wildlife photographers are angry
my goodness get in their way and they are not happy they're also a little bit
scary because they are dressed up like they are ready for war..... a little bit scary.
you've got to proper run the gauntlet through these Terns.....they're everywhere.
cheers!!! (Thanks)
That's it.... back on dry land Serenity Tours, the best in
Seahouses particularly for wildlife photography.....good stuff.
right so we've come to this little cove and it's a really nice secret little
cove almost so that's a trek through some pretty strange and remote places to
get here I don't actually know where it is somewhere in Northumberland but it's
absolutely beautiful and it has this waterfall he allows got the drone up at
the moment I've got a nice little composition... I've walked up this sort of
hill just a little bit to get a raised view of the pool down at the bottom of
the waterfall. I've then got a big rock in the foreground and then the waterfall in
the shot as well so it's just capturing the whole cove from this
slightly raised up position. I've got a big dynamic range between the sky and
the trees above that.... above the waterfall and then the dark area below
it so I'm bracketing as always I've only gone one stop either side on this
occasion but I'm f/8 because I haven't got anything particularly close to the
lens I'm at ISO 100 and then I have a shutter speed of roughly about two
seconds and, then like I said, one stop either side of that. I've got the
circular polarizer on as well to take all the sheen off the water, all the sheen
off the wet rocks behind the waterfall as well so it's going to be nice and
dark and black on the rocks it's really going to contrast against the surround
surrounding area as well as a little cave sort of almost underneath a rock
there as well so it should all in all be a nice little
composition something I wasn't even expecting today but it's nice when you
traveling around with someone else who knows these little areas to really
make the most of it and I think I've done that with this shot. A nice little stop off, now
after we have done this we're going to head up into.... or just across the border into
Scotland where we've got a nice little spot picked out for the sunset the
weather has come really nice as well...There's some really fluffy white clouds in the
sky, with some nice bits of blue.... hopefully it'll stay like that until sunset and
then....... we'll be on!!!
So here I am.... the last location of the day and can you believe how remarkable,
how amazing, how stunning this place is I'm at St Abbs in Scotland just over
the border from England it's not actually a place I've been to before
it's not somewhere that's particularly famous is it? But my goodness it is just
a sensational place I think I'm going to go for 2 or 3 compositions I've already
found my composition that I'm gonna get sunset back on the top, we'll talk
through that a bit, but I'm down here grabbing my first shot so I've got the
camera low on the this jetty that I'm stood on here and I've got this massive
rock behind me here, blocking the Sun from the actual lens of the camera
because I don't want any flare in the shot I'm pretty much just going for the
composition that is behind me because the light on those cliffs and the
sea haze is just absolutely beautiful I think it'll make for a really
straightforward but beautiful composition to start with. In the frame I
have the sea sort of right in the foreground and I'm going for a long
exposure about four and a half minutes I'm hoping that the sea sort of swirls
around and forms a nice bit of interest in the foreground to sort of then lead
you up into those beautiful cliffs. I'm at f/8 to get maximum sharpness for the
image because there's nothing particularly going to be sharp in the
foreground it's just gonna be that nice soft sea and then i'm at ISO 100... but
my goodness places like this just make you, they inspire you, just a landscape on its
own is inspiring and wow just wow I'm almost lost for words
brilliant
Right, last shots of the day and I'm up on the cliff...the camera is set up and that is pretty
much my Vista I've got, composition wise, I've got the
bay that we were just down in sort of leading me in to the image on the
left hand side and then I've got the cliffs also doing the same thing in
providing that real nice bit of interest. I've then got this sort of flowery bank
that I'm sat on at the moment adding a nice bit of foreground interest so I
think the composition is pretty good the light is just dipping down behind that
horizon cloud which seems to follow me around the UK I think I probably lost
the best of the light now I have I have already captured an image though and I
think it's looking pretty sensational I'm not going to talk through that shot
all the way through but just simply astounding day of landscape photography
just one of the very best days that I've had outside of my family for a very long
time, although I had a pretty good time up in the Lake District but just remarkable
day and this place is just simply incredible. I know I say it a lot but
the feeling of well-being you get from coming to places like this, capturing
beautiful landscapes like this.... is just.. it's just second second to none in terms
of making you feel good, feel alive and also feel healthy.... it's actually almost
quite emotional today I've had such a good day, it's been very very busy, I've
worked exceptionally hard I've also got about a four-hour drive home which
starts at 10:00 p.m. so it'll be a very late night for me but it's been worth it
another great day of landscape photography. Please do leave a comment down
below and let me know what you think I'd really like to hear, did you enjoy seeing some of
the wildlife stuff? what do you think of this place? all those sorts of things
I'd really like to hear from you...and if you haven't done so already please do
subscribe to the channel as well...... I'll see you on another one very soon this
one has been incredible though and I'm going to stand up for this as usual
being quite careful not to fall down that bank I'm Adam ,this is First Man
Photography in Scotland.......
Out!!!!