hi I'm Adam and welcome back.
Now the weather in the UK has been absolutely Dreadful this summer it has been raining a
lot today I've just thought I'm gonna face it head on go out in the rain and try and
make some interesting photography [Music]
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there are going to be some challenges first and foremost I think creatively trying to
make good pictures in these conditions is not all that easy now I do have this Beatrice
I'm heading down to with the cliffs and the rocks and stuff in the foreground which are
going to provide some interest but it's very flat light it's also quite gray I think the
long exposure is going to help with that the second Big Challenge is going to be technically
just keeping things dry and obviously that's not gonna be totally possible I think this
camera here which I'm talking into which is not waterproof is going to be the biggest
challenge I have this sign here which says uh no access and the path is closed but the
path is not closed you can still quite easily walk down the cliff so that is what I'm going
to do to get down onto the beach whoa that would be ironic if I fell now wouldn't it
now of course shooting in these conditions is not without its upsides as well most people
don't like being out in these conditions personally I love it and that means that I have this
whole entire beach in the middle of the summer holidays all to myself it's also very still
conditioned there's not much wind thirdly is the it's the middle of the day if you know
you're not going to have Sunset conditions and it's going to be overcast and gray you
can shoot at any point in the day you don't have to wait till nine o'clock in the evening
for that Golden Light so I can be efficient with the use of my time which personally I
really like
for the first shot and I've kind of perched on this rock because the tripod is sinking
into the sand The Tide Is as well coming in pretty quickly so I don't want to stand here
for too long otherwise I'm gonna get isolated and have to get my feet quite wet but I love
the view this way with these moss covered rocks in the foreground the tide coming in
the hill or the cliff in the distance there and then summer actually some detail in the
cloud which when I darken it off and make it really moody I think we'll have quite a
lot of detail in there but it's going to be smooth it's going to be dramatic from the
long exposure now from a technical point of view the rain is kind of coming over the top
of the the lens so with this one I think it's actually going to be fairly clean image without
too much water on the lens I think for the second shot what I might do is point the lens
into the rain so the rain gets all over the filter and we end up with a soft kind of effect
to the image which I think might work but for this one getting the filter on is going
to be the challenge so let me just get the filter out of the packets and whack it on
as quickly as possible a little bit of water did get on it then I think so we now need
to adjust the exposure time 30 seconds at let's go up to ISO 200 I think that's looking
pretty interesting I am focusing on the Rock just down here fire that off and then we just
need to wait 30 seconds I mean try and find somewhere to put this because my bags over
there I've got nowhere to put anything down because I'm kind of stood in the middle of
this incoming tide there we go that is now it's oh if I've not said it before the first
time you expose along exposure composition and see it on the back of the screen even
if it is covered in water there's something really interesting about it and exciting about
it the water looks a little bit Brown so I may have to adjust the white balance on that
to make it look a bit more appealing but yeah I'm quite pleased with that for my first shot
as I'm starting to get it's quite surrounded by water so I'm getting out of here I'll show
you that image I'll show you that image now [Music] foreign
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running down the filter to make that effect I was talking about but what I discovered
what I should have thought about really anyway is it's a very wide angle and the range actually
eased off a little bit the rain isn't running down the filter because of the wide angle
I'm then seeing all of the raindrops in the image itself which is definitely not what
I want so I think what I'm gonna have to do is try and shelter the lens while I shoot
it I have a second coat which I think will probably do the job if you can still see me
that is try the back of it off as well I think
30 seconds forgetting about covering the front hard work 30 seconds f11 when I was sat at
home this kind of felt like a good idea but right now it feels very stupid if anyone's
watching me they're going to think I'm absolutely mental I should have brought a Broly or something
but I really hate those things they're no good for when it's windy which is not now
here we go uh one thing I do like is that there is some detail in the clouds really
nice shape and form of the rocks may look stupid making that one it may have looked
stupid but I think that's going to be possibly my favorite image of the day [Music] [Applause]
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right so I hope you enjoyed that time I'm quite pleased with that one bus oh yeah hang
on let me just give you a little light because it has kind of stopped raining now but I'm
also just waiting uh for the tide to come in a little bit because there's a section
of rocks here which I really love and as the tide washes over them they're going to be
that lovely anchor in that long exposure image it's also now because it's brightened up looking
much more blue blue sky blue light but it's just a matter of now waiting and while I do
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[Music] me really strongly of the day I visited on one occasion I visited durdle door down
in Dorset very famous place for photographers and it was on a day just like today where
it was absolutely tanking it down and I was brave enough to get out in that and it rained
all morning I got very very wet it was difficult it was challenging but as soon as I hit that
beach the weather turned and it became beautiful and lovely conditioned beautiful blue sea
and I had the whole place to myself now that beach is famous for being extremely busy and
I would have hated it when it was like that but it was an absolutely glorious moment that
I had to myself because I braved the rain
the conditions surprisingly now are way better than I thought they were going to be and this
scene I think is looking absolutely beautiful tried a couple of little things already because
there isn't any rain there's not going to be any need for the 16 stop filter I can put
the wide angle on I can put the six stop filter on and capture some of the Waves washing around
this rock here it's still a lovely long exposure I do have an issue with some ships in the
distance but this image is going to be my favorite kind of long exposure image my knees
may end up getting wet in a second but it's that sort of image where it's very simple
you've got the anchored static object of the rock with the green moss on the seaweed that's
the subject then you've got all the movement in the water because I'm only doing about
a second long exposure but it's ethereal because we've removed a lot of the contrast by smoothing
the water out so pack almost acts like negative space to push your attention onto the Rock
and then you sort of vision goes through the image up to the Horizon then you see the sky
it feels ethereal it feels nice it feels comforting to look at and that's what I'm trying to create
with this final image of the day so the tides coming in really quickly I'm at F 16 because
I want a slightly longer exposure and it is quite bright now but I want my exposure time
to be around a second which it is so I'm focused in on the Rock fire that off I'm gonna get
wet in a second and then let that Expose and bracketing as well because there is still
quite a big dynamic range in the scene and I find it quite straightforward bracketing
with the sit stop filter it always seems to stitch together really rather well let's take
a look at that I was complaining about the brown color earlier on because we've now got
the brighter conditions in a blue more blue light that's then transferred into my image
I'll show you that image in a minute but I've Loved this little trip out because I wasn't
expecting anything I was frustrated with the weather and I've decided just to stick it
to that and it's turned out so much better than I thought it was going to and I don't
know why I'm surprised by that but I am because it happened so often getting out in the bad
weather getting out in the rain but even on days like this you get these little moments
and this moment right here has made this whole trip absolutely worth it I am buzzing that's
why I love landscape photography and I think that's why you should follow this channel
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