Well good morning folks and welcome back to the channel. Today we're actually out of the studio
finally the weather's calmed down a bit here in Britain and I've actually got over my cold which
I had last week if you noticed in last week's video and yeah good to get out. I'm here in
Castle Eden Dene which is near Peterlee in County Durham and today I'm going to try and shoot some
of the waterfalls and pools here in the Dene using the Panasonic fz82. I've shot waterfalls
before with my Nikon d3300 but as yet to try such a thing with the fz82. We're going to try and use
the shutter priority mode in this photoshoot to try and capture some movement in the water and
possibly we will have to use an ND filter along with the artistic nightscape mode on the camera.
Here we are in the stream what I'm going to try and do is to capture some motion
in this water. Now normally when you would have taken a photograph of this just in auto mode it
will freeze the water, what we're going to try and do here is to use a slow shutter speed and
capture some swirling motion in the water make it nice and smooth that's our aim!
If we look at the camera we've got the camera set to shutter priority mode (S), what we're going to
do is use the thumb wheel on the back of the camera and that's going to either increase
or decrease our shutter speed. I'll put those shots on screen now of the various shutter speeds
and then we shall move on to another location and see if we can get some more shots there.
Here at another location, another composition, I'm shooting across
the water there, across these rocks and trying to do some long exposure shots. I'm going to try that
without the any filters just using the shutter, then we're going to move on to a variable ND
filter, I must admit this is a cheap filter, I think it's an Xsource one didn't cost a lot of
money off eBay and I don't really get on with it very well. It's okay for filming but not quite so
good for still photography. I tend to find that it likes to create vignettes around the edge of
your shot, and then finally we're moving on to a 10 stop filter which is a Pig Iron filter,
they're quite cheap to buy, I think that cost me about £10 on eBay,
quite a good filter. Unfortunately sometimes 10 stops is way too long of an exposure
for a lot of photography with the fz82. But I shall show you the shots as they have
been taken, so we'll start with the unfiltered images, I will put all of the information about
each shot as that I always do so you can see what camera settings I used, and then we'll
move on to the shots with the variable ND filter and then finally onto the 10 stop Pig Iron filter.
So we're here at another location to shoot this little waterfall here. I'm going to put the name
of the falls up on screen because I can't quite remember what it's called now, and uh yeah we're
going to do some long exposure shots. I'm going to try them initially again using shutter priority
using the camera with about a four second exposure and see if we can make that water nice and creamy.
If that doesn't work out then it's time to pop on the ND filters again. One thing I must stress when
you're using an ND filter you are going to move into a manual focus. Basically set your focus
using the autofocus, using the screen in the back, just use your touchscreen, and then change it to
manual focus and that will keep the focus exactly the same as you have set it in the autofocus
mode.
So I've changed for another composition. I'm using the bridge and the two falls trying
that shot again trying some shots without using an ND filter and some shots with,
alternating between portrait and landscape modes just to see what kind of shots I can get. Again
it's the variable ND filter I've chosen to use at this point because I think the 10 stop is
just going to be too too much but you never know I might give it a try and see how we do.
That was a great day's photography at Castle Eden day I thought the fz82 did particularly well
especially once I started to combine that with either the Pig Iron 10 stop filter
or the Xsource variable ND filter, seem to work better for those types of shots. I was also using
a Hoya circular polarizer to take some of the glare off the water as well.
If you're wondering what tripod I was using this week then it was this very cheap and cheerless
Vivitar tripod I've had for years now. There was a justified reason for using this over my
ball head tripod and that will be explained in a future video. So again all of the filters,
tripod, all the other bits and pieces I've used in this video have been really affordable stuff, and
it just goes to prove that if you get the settings right on the camera it doesn't matter what kind of
gear you've got. It doesn't have to be the best quality, the most expensive camera, you can still
get creative shots! So now I'm going to leave you with some more shots of the day, but first
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