good afternoon mr. Morten good afternoon
I liked Morten when I found out that he wanted to stay in a tent in Crete I
liked him even more because he just brought me Freddo cappuccino
In this heat it's stupid with the tent
if you were here in a tent you would be dying of
heat every night anyways we're here Jodie's with us and we're going on a
night adventure and I guess that made it sound more dramatic than it is we're
just going on an overnight road trip to hell yeah we did remember the Chargers
this time right hopefully there's chargers in the bag we're going to hand
yet we driven three no almost three hours past Chania and basically to the
end of Crete the opposite side of Crete and we are totally on a different side
of the island and it is beautiful but I'm a little bit concerned about this
location just because this is probably the most instagrammed Beach on all of
Crete and every time I've seen images of it it's just packed with people so I'm
assuming it's gonna be busy that always makes it a challenge to photograph and
yeah I guess we got another like 15 minutes down this gravel road to get
there
this Beach better be beautiful because it is a zoo it's a freakin Zoo any time
you check out best beaches it shows up so there's a reason why it's basically
just swamped with cars hundreds of cars on this road down it should be
beautiful at least in the hope is that yeah when sunset happens it'll it'll
quiet down a little bit yeah I guess the goal for this shoot is to try to maybe
find something unique to shoot you see the same photo over and over again from
this location I'd like to find something a little bit different than the classic
shot so yeah well let's head down to the beach
wherever the car park still haven't made our way down to the beach
Morten's made a new friend look he liked it to be scratched behind the years
where he can treat himself
so a voice say this I should mention I did do my research I found her location
and then I thought this was the location but this was one of my other locations
and the location I thought we were about to shoot it needs backlight for it to
work this location it doesn't work with backlight and yeah that's exactly what
we have straight on backlight so I'm not sure this is gonna work
but I guess we're here so we might as well try to take some pictures anyway
this is why I love going out with other photographers it just gives you another
another mind another brain to bounce up against we were a little bit frustrated
because we came to the wrong location in the wrong light and it's the wrong photo
and so we stopped back that way just a little bit to have a bit of a powwow a
little bit of a talk trying to figure out you know how we're gonna do this
shot what we're gonna do we're gonna change locations are we gonna try
something totally different are we gonna hike up one of these peaks to try to
find a different angle and Morten just came up with the idea you know normally
when you go to a beach or the coast you run down to the coast and you just shoot
out towards sea but actually a great idea would be to go out into the sea and
shoot back into these beautiful mountains and that way the light at
sunset will light up all these peaks and give us maybe alpenglow or some color
and it should come out absolutely beautiful
we've gone from frustrated to extremely excited in a matter of minutes
like the second we landed on the beach Morten abandoned us and he just went for
a full-on swim he's like a hundred and fifty meters out to sea we do have some
time so I think we're probably going to relax on the beach a little bit and then
wait until they Sun lights rate on the horizon to kiss these mountains these
peaks back here lots of foreground to work with it might
be a little bit risky with the photo gear getting in about waist or chest high and
then finding one of these rocks as a foreground for all of this but this
place is absolutely beautiful you can tell why so many people come down here
guys just a quick cut away from the vlog to mention the music in this video is
from Sid from liberal music uplinked as you tube below I've been trying to find
music and no matter what music I put in the vlogs you guys complain so I decided
to use my music using for good so I stayed reached out to me from liberal
music and yeah this is his song
and all your friends why we used to say why
I'm sorry but this is definitely gonna be shaky because I basically ditched
everything I've ditched my clothes I ditch my 200d I ditch the gimbal I have
my tripod I have filters and I'm just basically almost waist-deep out in the
sea to get the photo this is people ask me all the time what the difference is
between a pro and an amateur or a hobbyist and quite often the difference
is this simple it's being willing to get into the sea to get a photo that you
know is going to be better than a shot would be from on the beach so I'm gonna
walk up to this location I was wandering around through the water for like 20
minutes looking for compositions think I found something that's really cool so
let's set up and shoot it
I'm gonna talk about this from behind the camera but you can see there's all
this rock under the water and I think with a polarizer I'll be able to cut
through this glare on the top and just show that in the crystal clear water and
then this almost works like a leading line up to those peaks way off in the
background up there I think this is going to be really cool okay so I just
want to talk composition quick because I've been struggling I came out and
location scouting earlier the lights changing really fast you can probably
see it's right on the horizon now the Sun is beautiful contrast in the rock
and I'm struggling I'm jumping between two sides here on one side we have this
underground I don't know underground rock may be old
dead coral even that looks interesting and then we've got some other stuff here
and both look okay neither looks great and as I've been kind of going back and
forth between them I decided to just stop right in the middle of them and use
both of them and I'm actually not using all of each of them I'm kind of using
edges of each of them to work as a natural leading line kind of like a
natural canyon straight into this peak the lights not cooperating that much
because there's some haze on the horizon but it does look nice it is coming out
quite well I've got f11 30 seconds the 30 seconds is just
smoothing out the water totally and then a polarizer to just cut through the
water and make this water look as clear as it actually is okay so I'm back on
dry land I'm clothed again as is the girl that decided to walk into my frame
totally unclothed I had the shot lined up I'd been waiting for the light for
ages and this girl just walked right into my frame topless and stood there it
was like uncanny the whole beach is totally empty except for us and she just
walked into my frame and stood there topless and you know you're a
photographer you know that you love photography when a girl walks up to you
topless and you're upset about it but the truth is the light wasn't great
anyway just because there was a ton of haze on the horizon so we didn't get
that really good alpenglow on these Peaks it looked nice I'm happy with the
composition I'm happy that we stuck it out and we came down here and we got
some shots and yeah in the end I'm happy
so we're in Chania we're in the old port of Chania and it is so beautiful and our
room here must have the coolest location of any place in hanaye we're right on
top of the old harbour the pedestrian I guess area is everywhere around us but
the main strip here with other restaurants and bars is all right below
us this town is so cool lots of little alleyways it's all
pedestrian in the old town which I love and I didn't really show you guys
because if we're just we're exhausted the Sun just wears you down so we're
just so tired we just went out smashed some food back and are calling it a
night but tomorrow morning I'm going to get up here I think Morten's gonna get
up here at sunrise as well shoot some stuff in the old port because it is just
really really beautiful and then maybe I'll show you some of these alleyways
and try some street photography or something like that early in the morning
as well as for today it didn't go the way we were thinking mostly because it
was a different location than I thought we were going to yeah we stretched
ourselves out a little bit because we thought it was so busy and it was really
really busy there for a bit and then on top of it it was stressed because the
light was all wrong for what I thought I had planned but after we kind of sat
down thought about things I've got the help of Morten just to get a fresh set
of eyes on everything came up with a plan and it all just came out really
well I think and yeah it was cool because that place is so so so busy it's
just crazy busy and then if we had it all to ourselves at sunset aside from
the naked girl I think like we it was really incredible that we had that place
all to ourselves it's just such an incredible spot and yeah I guess I'm
going to leave it there tomorrow we'll be back again with some more excitement
and hopefully less talking because I want to show you grease rather than talk
about it so yeah I guess that's it I'll see you guys tomorrow peace