And I've got the 360 degree views all
the way around and it's absolutely
spectacular up here. Another perfect day of landscape photography.
hello so a few of you recently have
pointed out and it hasn't escaped me
that I live in a place that puts me in
easy reach of some of the most beautiful
landscapes in the entire world. I live in
yorkshire at the moment and I've got
access to the Lake District the Yorkshire Dales
the North York Moors, I can go south into
the Peak District I've got all of
beautiful landscapes to start to pull
images from and getting to these amazing
places is really what is what is what
landscape photography is all about
really at the moment I don't have the
capacity to travel all that often, I have
young children so that keeps me grounded
somewhat that's just that works for me
that works for my family some people might not
mind traveling with us that's how I am
at the moment I understand that I'm very
very lucky but I'm wanting to make the
most of it because for 10 years I lived
in London so and in that time I really
was only shooting landscape photography
sort of five or six times a year when
the opportunity arose and I did not do
as much landscape photography as i would
have liked was doing other things but
then i moved back up north and it put me
in the realm of all these beautiful
places so today I've come to the Lake
District again I'm at Rydal Water which
is near ambleside I'm going to be
climbing Loughrigg Fell in search of
those beautiful images. As you can see
though it is absolutely beautiful
so this is Rydal cave and I as you can
hear there is a pretty serious echo in
here hopefully you can see me now
absolutely stunning cave. I had to climb up
a little bit to get to this position I'm
hoping I'm going to get back down it's
always harder to get back down isn't it?
you remember that from when used to
climb trees as a kid but photography
wise there is not a lot going on in here
I've got the camera set up at the
entrance to the cave so I'm just going
to do a wide angle bracketed to get all
the detail out of this cave because
there is some quite nice mossy green
walls so it could still turn into a
fairly interesting shot but it's not
going to be absolutely killer but we'll
do it we'll have a look and it's going
to tell the story of Rydal cave just a
little bit i would like it if it's a bit
more water in here to get some more
reflection off the ground but it's it's
it is wet but it's not the water isn't
very high
So whilst I'm sitting on this bench having my
lunch I think it's about time we have a
little weather report the weather today
isn't great. It's very overcast I knew that
before I was coming and it's due to be
overcast all day I'm getting cracks in
the cloud and the light coming through
them hitting the mountains looks
absolutely stunning there isn't time to
compose a tripod a shot on the tripod
because it's coming and going so fast I
would miss it if I had it on a tripod so
what I'm doing is just hand holding a
few shots and trying to make the most of
it then but when that light comes up
comes good I've got the camera in hand
and I'm ready to just capture the best
composition I possibly can with that
light and with that very brief moment
when I'm hand holding my landscape
photographs I will generally have it in
around f/8, f/5.6 something like that for
the aperture because generally I won't
have much foreground it'll all be stuff
in a distance and then my shutter speed
I have it around 1/200th of a
second because I'm hand-holding so I
don't want to have it any slower than that
otherwise there might be a small amount
of camera shake starts coming into the
images so i keep it at 1/200th of a
second to eliminate that and then I just
bump my ISO up a little bit to
compensate for that and today i'm at
about iso 400 and that has allowed me to
capture these shots
ok so I'm at a good height now to get a
nice panoramic view of this scene I've
got some interesting light now coming onto
the mountains in the background the
composition is quite straightforward and
very near the path as well that people
walk up it's a very popular place this, so
that shot isn't going to be anything
particularly unique it is going to be a
good shot though because what I've done
is gone for a long exposure two minutes
17 seconds roughly and what that will do
is smooth that water out firstly and I
like it because I've also got the
polarizing filter so that water goes
nice and dark which looks really really
good and the long exposure also as the
light comes through the clouds in
patches hits that mountain and
because it is a long exposure as that light
moves across the mountains the long
exposure picks that light up and it ends
up with a better lit scene than I can
actually see here and it also brings in
lovely ethereal feel that long
exposures give and I just absolutely
love it
right let's keep going and the next stop is the
top
So i'm at the top of Loughrigg Fell in
the Lake District and I've got those 360
degree views all the way around and it's
absolutely spectacular up here another
perfect day of landscape photography
it's just absolutely stunning up here
there's there is literally compositions
everywhere the light's doing so many
different things though that I'm not
sure I'm going to be able to just get
the exact a shot that I want I've seen
quite a few really nice compositions as
I've come up but like I said the light
just isn't there so it's not quite working for
me, the weather though, mostly coming from
over here behind me is doing much better
things than I was expecting to do it to
do today but this much more blue sky
then a thought that was going to be so
what I'm going to do i think is get back
down to Rydal Water because there's
composition there's lots of compositions
down there which will form a really nice
sunset shot and i'm going to get some
beautiful light and some nice color in
the sky then I think for today that's
the place to be so I'm going to have a
little ground here capture a time lapse
from the top as well and then get back
down to the bottom and capture something
special hopefully for the sunset.
okay so I'm in position for the final
shots of the day and the weather is
absolutely beautiful now it was not
forecast to be like this but the sun's
come out and I'm rewarded with some
beautiful golden light it had been a very
frustrating day up to now with things
changing all the time and I was set up
in position light would change once i'd packed
my bags and then I'd miss the ideal
conditions but that's not the case now
right to the first shot to make the most
of this golden light is the camera set
up here and I have this little island in
the middle of Rydal Lake here and as you
can see i'm just about to have the last
bit of light hitting that island and it
kind of isolated in golden light and
then the mountain in the background is
still in shadow so that contrast is
creating a really beautiful image this
sun has just gone behind a cloud so i
will adjust my exposure just a little
bit i'm a 70mm to get the
island remember the little house and the
Far beach of Rydal Water here and
that's working really nicely for the
composition as well I'm at f/8 to just get
maximum sharpness because there's
nothing particularly in my foreground
and then I'm iso 100 and i'll have to check
what the shutter speed is because I
don't think about it I just go for the
exposure shutter speed of 1/25 of a
second I'm on a tripod with a two second
timer and that's how I have captured
that shot I think that's going to be a
nice one what I'm going to do now is try
and get into position in the water to
just capture the light as it goes down
soon as it goes down behind the
mountains I'm trying to do two things at
one here let me just adjust my exposure
a little bit more on here lots of things
changing here and have to be careful not
to fall in this water with all this
camera gear but I want to use these
rocks just right in front of me here at
my foreground interest I've got a few
moments before I
lose the Sun behind the mountains I
really want to make the most of these
few minutes I'm going to put the camera
away so I can get the canon 5d mark IV
set up and then we should be good to go
the conditions are changing as you can see
with the light on my face so I've got
some work to do here it's come back
nicely though this spectacular location
is just perfect for the end of the day
to day such a good day of landscape
photography ok next shot of the day the
camera is in a fairly precarious
position over the water I've then used a
six stop filter just to smooth out the
water just a little bit. I've got an
exposure time of around one and a half
seconds the Sun is just starting to set
behind the mountain there it's not some
set time yet that's obviously setting
behind the mountain a little bit earlier
so I've got some nice blues yellows in
the sky and I'm going to pull them all
into my image so it's going to work out
to be really really nice I'm at f/16
because I'm quite close to those
boulders and like I said I've got a
second and a half exposure time an iso
of 100 so I think it's going to be a
really nice shot when I get a little bit
of movement in the clouds as well
possibly and I'm just capturing that
light as its reflecting off the surface
of the water and I'm also bracketing the
shot because big dynamic range and I
just want to be sure that i'm getting
the right exposure and then I'm just
stood in some water as well here I'm
going up to the beach for one second I'm
then going to hang around because it's
pretty nice on this beach it's a really
nice spot to spend the end of the day's
people barbecuing a little bit further
down there people having a swim as well
and it's just a magnificent spot so then
when i get to sunset time i'm hoping
i'll get some beautiful color in that
sky those clouds are looking really
really interesting at the moment so if
this landscape lights up with some color
in the sky i'm going to be around to
capture that colour and create another
shot ok so i hope you have enjoyed the
video I've had a great day I've got some
good shots in the bag even if
best ever I'm hoping this last one will
be to be fair but it's been a good day
regardless of what shots I've got it's
the type of day if a stayed put here all
day long I could have still come away
probably were the best images of the day
but then I wouldn't have had a great day
I've had from what doing that loop over
that mountain and having some of those
amazing views and the experience that
has again created that well
being all the time and making me feel so
it's good anyway leave a comment down
below and let me know what you think of
the day let me know you can get a shot
I'm really appreciate appreciating some
of the feedback that you providing
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very soon I'm Adam this is first man
photography in the Lake District......out