isn't this just the coolest thing in the world, it's absolutely amazing
as the sun comes up
from behind those clouds you may find if you're using an auto mode you may
have to adjust your exposure, you may have to run with it
because if you dont
what will happen is that it will confuse your light meter , because if you're shooting manually
it should hold that, if you're shooting with aperture priority light like myself
you will have to keep increasing the exposure or it will fool the camera into making it darker and
darker
keep your eye on these things
keep focused, keep concentrating, and enjoy that, isn't that so beautiful
jenny move, want it
there's nothing like bullying people out of the way
let's see what we can get
oh no, that wasn't the light view, that's the light view
let's take that in a little more
yes
she's rocking and rolling
rolling baby
look at that
we're going to lose that sun over the horizon very soon
and i have a sneaky suspicion
it's going to set the sky on fire
i put a tenner on it
okay
as professional photographers we've gotta do what we've gotta do to get the shot
look at this man over here
the waters freezing
and i might have to do something similar later i just don't know, the tied is coming in so
fast
back to work
oh, look at that
shoes and socks off, get in the water
it's freezing
but it means you can get the shot
something to think about
i keep on talking about aperture priority, because that's what i use
i'm not saying its the only way
but as the sun goes below the horizon
your camera will start to think, oh that's getting a bit dark, so it'll start doing the opposite to what it did earlier
its going to start brightening things up
but unless you want it bright your going to have to do the opposite and start
under-exposing it a bit, from what your cameras telling you to do
otherwise it's going to look too bright , its going to start thinking hey
this is starting to look a bit day light-y , but we want this to start getting a bit darker now
so very often you'll have to under expose, just a bit, oh look at that
look at that
squeaked jane
yes its going to run in a minute,
oh yeah i see,
this is how you can get trapped, isn't it
oh yes, just
go above high water mark somewhere tarran
no can you leg them up above the high water
oh yes we're getting some twinkly lights in town now
there may even be some shots to be had that way, because the light have come on in town
it could be there's something to be shot from there, oh look at that
its changing all the time there's not a moment to lose in
watching this
this girl invited us here
to come and look at some photography with her and show me a picture of
this place
shes ended up lugging my bags around and making sure my boots don't get full of water
i owe her a beer
well i'd like to thank you ever so much, owe you at least a beer
i like these little ripples, and i like this water
in fact i think i'm going to get in the water again and see if i can let them really blur
it's starting to get dark enough
but we've got to use a tripod to do this
so I've set
the smallest aperture i can
the lowest ISO i can, i'm not going to fun around trying to get a filter
or something because
i haven't got time, i want to get on and shoot, and also the light level is dropping sufficiently
enough
that i can probably do this
what i want to achieve is these waves just blurring as they come in to the beach
am i in your shot?
ok,
what have we got through the view finder, nearly gone
and aw yes, here we go
here it is
once again we're now down to the four second exposure
lets get those ripples, there they are
wow, i love it, i really really love it
i'm also getting interested in this water coming in behind
the tied is sneaking in,
and i'm looking everywhere, but at you but the tied is sneaking in behind us,
look at this
this is how people get trapped on beaches
and drown
so be careful if you do this unaware in all seriousness if you're going to do this be
careful
i know we can get round there, and i know how solid the ground is under here
because this guy has photographed this place many times,
i'm not too worried
right let's see what i can do
with this little
head land thing because i do
rather like the idea
of water either side
we lets see what we can come up with, oh that's cool
look at that,
isn't that just
totally
beautiful and
amazing
it really is an incredible world we live in
that something as beautiful as that can go on
i just love it, don't you want to capture it
so we're about done now
i kinda expected the
sky to set on fire with that last sort of little bit of red, i don't know if you can see but
the horizon there, i did kind of hope it would come right across, but it didn't
none the less, it's been a complete joy and a privilege for me to
come here and take some pictures, because i spend so much time in an office and i love coming out into the
real world
and shoot some pictures
it's been fantastic
and i hope its given you some kind of an insight in to what it takes to
get a really beautiful picture, much like the ones you will see in ikea
there's a lot of work involving it isn't the case of going out and just taking
loads and loads of pictures
and hoping that they will be an iconically beautiful image in there, it wont work like
that, you do
have to do some research the journey for me began with
a tip of from tarran
and then we had er Google earth to look at it, to find out
where it is, to find out wheres its pointed, which way is the sun going to come up
and where is it going to come down and how we're going to come about it
we got here this morning i reckon eleven o'clock and i first started
wrecking it and walking around it and figgering out angles that we wanted
to be in
so the moment
that great evening light was wasted
otherwise you arrive you think oh look the suns setting, oh quick in the car
and its too late you've missed it, you've got to put some work into this
do it on your own as well, don't try doing this on a picnic with the family
because you're going to drive them nuts, their gonna hate you
take your time work your way through it
and you will go home with something you're really really proud of
and when people say to you, did you get that from Ikea? you can just say oh no that's one that i took
aha i love being big headed like that
anyway the journey here tonight is over
the the next thing to do this to go and have a look in the office in the morning
to see what we've got
here we are back at camp
I've loaded all the raw files into the computer, I've been through, I've edited them and I've found the image that i'm going to work on
and i am going to do a little bit of work on it, just as a
professional printer would have worked on a negative by dodging and burning to get
the very best from it, and that's what i'm going to do
this image is slightly under exposed because
down here i kinda wanted to make sure that the sun was still there so the raw thing
looks a bit dark and i didn't want to lose detail around the sun, i didn't want it to go
white
when you are working on a doing some post-production you need to plan that
just as you do the shoot
so looking at this what i want to do is a brighten it up, i want to get closer to the way
my eyes saw it, so i want the light house a little bit brighter here, i want to
keep this moody-ness into the sky and keep a little bit of detail in the
foreground
and with a raw file, with digital this is really really great because you can
really really accurately dodge burn, and it just kind of lifted a bit
so let's have a look here first thing whit balance, i don't really bother to white balance
when i'm shooting raw because it's so easy to correct with in post-production
all i have to do is pick up my white balance tool here,
right over something white, yes, that looks about right
i kinda like that,
that's about right
now let's start work
away we go
let's start brightening it up a bit, and add a bit more detail into that white house
let's push the sky back down a bit
it gives a bit more detail into the sky
there we go, lets keep that moody-ness at the top, too much,
planning to do these things
lets take a look at that white house
let's see what we can do to brighten it up
that's going to be too bright
we don't want it to look un-natural, just want it a little bit brighter, that's it
something subtle
this is going to take me a while
and where as this films more about shooting the image rather than
post-production
when you come back and join me in a minute
so there we go, job done, that's how we want it to look
all i have to do now is email it to my lab
okay
looks good doesn't it, and i think that it absolutely
belongs just there
you know what the
driving the planning the Google earth-ing the running around, taking test shots
or wondering whether or not
we were going to get the light or the shot at all, all the hanging around, the waiting
the freezing cold feet,
it was all so worth it