Already, right at the start of the day, I’ve got those amazing and 360 degree views.
Hello.
So here we are again on another vlogging mission.
I’m going out and about again today to capture some landscape photography.
Today, I’m going to be heading over to Flamborough on the East Yorkshire coast of the UK.
It is a beautiful coastline with lots of nice cliffs and should provide a nice landscape
that I’m for looking for today.
I’ve got out of bed today very early.
It’s very early now.
I’ve got a couple of hours drive to get there so, hopefully, I will get there in time
for the sunrise.
The weather is not looking too bad for today.
There is a risk that there will be too much cloud to capture that sunrise but, being a landscape
photographer, sometimes, you have to take that risk and just go out anyway.
So that’s the plan for today.
I’m gonna get on the road now because I want to get there in time for that sunrise.
So let’s go.
Okay, so I’ve arrived and, at the moment, my only concern is the weather.
You never know, when you set off on a morning like this, truly how it’s going to turn
out, especially, in this country where so often it’s cloudy and clouds is what I've
got, at the moment.
There is some nice colour in the sky.
This pretty cool lighthouse behind me as well.
There’s just that layer of cloud on the horizon.
So, I may have some colour high up in my shot but I don’t think I’m going to see the
sun when it comes up above the horizon.
But we’ll see.
I’m going to set up anyway and give it a shot.
So, I’ve hiked down to these cliffs and already, right at the start of the day,
I’ve got those amazing 360 degree views all the way round.
There’s birds singing, the sea I can hear as well.
But I have had to react a little bit to the cloud situation because, like I said, there
is cloud cover right on the horizon.
So the shot I had planned, there is no colour in the sky in the area where I was going to
shoot over there.
What I have done though is set up with these cliffs in the background.
There’s some beautiful pink colour in the sky here You probably can’t see it because
it’s exposed for my face but it is beautiful.
I’ve captured a nice scene.
I’ve got the camera set up here; the Canon 5D Mark IV.
I've got six stop ND filter on the front of there.
I want to capture some movement in the water here and really smooth out all the sea here.
I’ve bracketed it as well.
There’s three shots: one to expose for the foreground here, one for the mid tones here
and then to get that sky in there as well.
Maximum length of exposure is about 30 seconds.
I think that’s going to turn into a really, really nice shot right at the start the day.
So it’s a really good start.
I feel very positive.
The cliffs around here, the sea, really lend themselves to long exposure when you smooth
that water out.
So, I’m going to go exploring and see what else I can find.
If you haven't visited this area before, you really must.
It's the north-east coast of England but you can pretty much walk you way along these cliffs
quite far up the coast and is absolutely beautiful coastline.
There’s cliffs, some amazing beaches including the town of Whitby which is quite famous.
But, yeah, it's a magical day.
It's so still.
It’s hardly ever this still on the coast.
I wish I had a drone today.
I would have been so tempted to fly it right out to sea, those aerial shots.
I’ve got to get one soon.
Right so I’m at my second composition now, as you can see behind me, and this was was
going to be the scene of the sunrise that I had planned today.
I planned it using the PhotoPills app.
You can, probably, hear the birds behind me on the cliffs there.
I had the shot planned because the sun was going to come up, pretty much, right behind
my head.
You’ve got these cliffs here that were going to produce that foreground interest.
But it's not to be but I’ve come to capture the image anyway.
What I’ve done is, I’ve got the 10 stop ND filter attached to the front of the camera
and it’s going to work out at about 4 minutes 16 seconds exposure.
I’ve also got the polariser attached to the front of the lens as well because that’s
taking some of the sheen off the water.
It looks really good because you can actually see underneath the water a little bit and
that is gonna be nice in the image as well.
I’m having a great day.
Sometimes, I’ve talked about it before, things just come together.
I’m absolutely buzzing this morning because it’s so still you can hear the waves, you
hear the birds singing, there’s pretty much nobody else around so it’s very peaceful.
Those moments, when you are taking photography or doing photography, that they all come together.
It just feels so good.
The fresh air, being out shooting landscape photography is just, I promise you, there
is nothing better on a morning like today.
And It’s just brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
I’ve already got one composition going here.
Now it's going to be a sort of fine art, long exposure shot.
It’s going to be another 4 minutes and 16 seconds exposure with that 10 stop ND filter
on there.
Composition wise, I'm at 40 mm which is a bit closer than what you can see behind here.
I'm using this little rock as the kind of centre point of my image.
It’s on the rule of thirds on the right hand side and then you’ve got the cliffs
and the water and the clouds that we all want.
Contrasting smooth clouds and water and those ragged cliffs.
That’s the real key to long exposure photography: that contrast between sharpness and the softness
of the clouds and water.
But this beach is really nice.
There are, I’ll take you over there, there are some really nice rocks over here.
The camera is still exposing behind me there.
Hopefully, I’m pretty confident the tide’s going out… pretty confident.
I’ve got a couple of lines in the sand just to keep myself safe and the camera as well
but here just behind me, I think, these rocks here that are there kind of finding their
way into the sea, they are very interesting rocks.
They could just provide that nice foreground and leading line interest.
If the tide is coming in though, I probably won't pick that shot up because I don't like
that line of the seafront in my shot.
Now, my second composition, down at the beach, and I was right, the tide is going out, as
its doing, is revealing this black rock here and the white limestone rocks that are here
that are, actually, under the sand.
I'm happy with the composition.
I’ve still got this rock, on the rule of thirds, right in the cross of the rule of
thirds and then limestone rock and then the water leading you into those cliffs.
Again, I think it will make a really nice, fine art, long exposure shot.
So, I got that by hanging around a little bit, waiting to see how things developed in
nature, in this case the tide and it’s worked out well for me.
You never know what’s going to happen.
Sometimes, if you stand and observe, you’ll be able to see things other people won’t
see and you’ll get that special shot.
I think, there I will end this vlog because I’ve picked up three, what I think will
be, pretty decent shots.
It doesn’t always have to be a full day out shooting.
Like today, I’ve got up early and have been rewarded with a really early sunrise shot.
I've got a couple of nice long exposure shots.
I’ve got one more time lapse to do before I go but, I’ve got everything done in a short
space of time.
You can achieve a lot, with your landscape photography, like that, in a short space of time
Anyway, please leave a comment down below.
Let me know what you think the shots.
What would you have done differently with the composition?
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This is First Man Photography at this amazing beach…..
Out!!!