Landscape photography. Just so good so so good.
Hello and here we are again on another
landscape photography mission I've had some issues in the last couple of weeks
with a bad back, poor weather things like that and the vlogs that I've done
recently I've been lucky..... I've had some good weather.....but today and all of
this week in fact the weather has been really poor it's not looking good today
either there is a tiny glimmer of hope that there will be something good at the
end of the day when you look at your weather app and it looks a little bit
like this you've got rain rain rain and rain and
then you've got a nice little bit of Sun at the end.... that could mean anything
a lot of the time but sometimes it could mean something very special as the
conditions change from really poor to just a glimmer of sun. That's when you get
those some dramatic conditions sometimes and hopefully that will create a little
opening for me to get a good shot today so I'm heading up to North Yorkshire
near to where I grew up it's a place called Roseberry Topping, or the hill
is called Roseberry Topping.....I'm going to be going up there trying to capture a
couple of nice images of that and see what I can come up with.... so it's fairly late in
the day already I've got a drive ahead of me
so let's go
I've arrived and you can see from the carpark there's absolutely nobody here
it's usually pretty busy here. If you like a bit of solitude and being out by
yourself come out when it's raining because there's no one else here and it isn't
cold, it's just a few drops of rain that aren't bothering me one bit so, I feel
already like I have won. Low expectations for today so I'm just going to enjoy
myself....... Come to the top with me though.
so it's wet it's windy but I'm having a great time and I've got those 360 degree
views all the way around ....the very top of Teesside I'm shouting because the wind is pretty
extreme you can see water on the camera I'm tired from that climb but man do I
feel good. The light is amazing there's dark bits, there's bright bits.... it's gonna be tough
getting a shot but orrrrr. Am I glad I'm up here
I'm having a good time today I am now set up for the first shot of
the day I'm currently capturing a time-lapse. The clouds over my shoulder
here are just so dramatic. You can see the rain coming down and there's some
dark clouds there's a bit of bright clouds there's so much drama in that sky
you can capture good landscape photographs in absolutely any weather
and it includes wet, windy weather like this. It's always gonna be quite dramatic
but you never know when you're going to capture that really special moment it
might be a big storm cloud that adds all that drama it might be a beautiful bit
of sunshine poking through the clouds at just the right time you just never know
and you're not going to capture that shot unless you brave these conditions.
I actually don't feel I'm being that brave today it's just a little bit windy and
wet I'm really not cold at all I braved it all through the winter as well so
today is a piece of cake if I am honest plus I've come back to very close to
where I grew up so it's never a bad thing coming home now shot wise like I
said I'm just capturing the time-lapse then I'm going to try a shot a little
bit closer in probably with the 70 to 200 to really try and bring some of that
drama into a photograph to add to the time-lapse and add to the story of this
day I'm having
I'm down off Roseberry Topping ....it's now just a march back to the car... I really am
struggling at the time but the weather is looking absolutely beautiful now think
we're on.....come on!!!!
Right, second location, marching up another hill as fast I possibly can
The light now is looking tremendous. come on i'm nearly there
I think I might make it. it's going to be touch and go though
I'm in position for the final shot of the day and I've made it so I'm very
pleased about that I've got a little bit of time just to get composed before the
Sun sets but it's looking absolutely beautiful. The light is going to come down
below or the sun's going to come down below the clouds and hopefully then just
light those clouds up I've got Roseberry Topping over my shoulder here and then
if we spin around a bit you can just see that little bit of water down at the
bottom there and I've also just got the heather starting to flower in the
foreground it's all about the light for me tonight I just really hope it's going
to do something really special. Settings wise again I am bracketing because I've
got some nice bit of dynamic range between the sky and ground and I can
catch all that with bracketing there was some big opinions about my nd grads
versus bracketing video....but each to their own, kind of like I said in that video
I'm at f/8 because the foreground interest is a bit of a distance away I don't
think I need to go any more than that and my go to f11 just to try and get a
bit more of that flowering Heather in focus I'm at a shutter speed of around one
fifteenth of a second and ISO 100 like I said with a bracketing I've got the
circular polarizer on the front as well I don't think I'll need it so I might
take that off as the Sun starts to set I'm not going for long exposure or
anything like that you're gonna be a straight up shot so it's just a matter
of waiting now and what a place to wait looking over Teesside, at Roseberry topping
my home you can't go wrong, might get a little time-lapse might do
something else or.... I might just sit here and enjoy it, but, probably about 20
minutes to go and we'll see what happens
just while I'm waiting for the Sun to set I thought I just let you know about
a couple of things I've got coming firstly I'm very very proud to announce
and I think it's something you might be interested in is that I have launched a
podcast. The podcast is out now go to all your favorite podcast providers and just
search for First Man Photography and you will be able to see or listen to the
new first man photography podcast also if you head over to
firstmanphotography.com I'm now offering a photo critique service. It's something I've
been thinking about quite for while because I did the photo
critique videos they were very very popular and I'm still getting a lot of
people contacting me on a daily basis asking for photo critiques I'm not
really doing the photo critique videos anymore but I am now offering a photo
critique service over in the store on my website so go and check go and check
that out I've had a few people do it already and the feedback has been excellent
they've really got a lot out of that and if you want some honest constructive
critique about your pictures then that's something that you can consider
something I'm offering it's not going to be for everyone absolutely not and
totally appreciate that but if it's something you're interested in do go and
check it out I've also got my prints for sale, t-shirts for sale. There is a lot on
offer over on the website so if you want to support me in any way shape or form
head over there and go and buy something because that would really help me out
and like I've been saying I would appreciate that forever so that's that I
think I now I need to head back to the cliff edge for that sunset moment
hopefully the cloud is playing ball. It's now sunset time but unfortunately I
think I've lost the Sun for good behind that low cloud that seems to show
itself every single time I come to this area of North Yorkshire. I don't know if its the sea
back there that brings it in.... Or just bad luck, I don't know..... But there we go
I have still captured a really nice shot that I'm very very happy with so it was still
worth the trip it's always worth braving these conditions because
sometimes and especially if you see a little bit of Sun on the weather
forecast at the end of the day you know we could you could have those really
special occasions when that weather turns to the good and those spectacular
conditions come out because people aren't willing to brave
them, you're out here by yourself and you're capturing shots that no one
else is going to capture. It's been absolutely brilliant and I've had another great
time. Landscape photography just so good, so so good I really hope you're enjoying
your landscape photography..... please leave a comment down below and let me know what
you think of this video and if you would share it that would mean an awful lot to
me and really help me out as well so, for now, I'll end the vlog there. I'll see one
another one very soon I've got some really good stuff coming up as well but
for now I'm Adam this is First Man Photography in North Yorkshire......
Out!!!