okay day two of the two day photography vlog is starting right now and we were in there
Scully we ended up sorting out our accommodation yeah we've got a place to
stay tonight so let's get checked in and then we'll get out and shoot some photos
guest house is definitely guest hosi we paid $22 a night for this which is not
great value to be honest but I mean with a location like this you don't really
care we have a view straight out at the mountains and a couple of the towers
it's pretty epic and I think it'll be a cool vibe we're eating at the guesthouse
as well so let's go do that get some energy for our sunset shoot
**Telephoto time lapse squenece**
I gotta say it's only like twenty-one twenty-two hundred meters here and I'm
struggling a little bit with the altitude or maybe not struggling but
definitely feeling it in my chest which is crazy because I usually don't feel it
until about three thirty three hundred meters but yeah cool we're at the guest
house the guest house is cool they've laid out a bunch of food for us
basically all of the houses here in town have converted into guest house guest
houses and I think it's awesome to see how tourism can help in development how
tourism can infuse money into the local economy like it is here in town
Greg, you hungry?
I am hungry this looks amazing
how awesome is this for where we are? What are you gonna eat first?
I think I'm gonna tuck into this soup
and then maybe a little bit of the beans in the bowl I
haven't had much of the Georgia bread yet so that's pretty good; chicken salad
the eggplant salad don't you wait you said first right?
basically when you hang
out with Greg eats all the food and you just get the scraps leftover
okay we're off on our photography adventure. it is 7:00 p.m. or just after 7:00 Sun sets
at 8:30 alpenglow potential is at about 8 o'clock usually about a half an hour
15 minutes before sunset and we have no idea where we're going
literally no clue but when we did drive in we saw what looked like one of these
old buildings with the towers isolated back towards this mountain and the crazy
thing is that mountain is actually Russia so in a way I'm basically Sarah
Palin I can see Russia from my backyard which is awesome and yeah hopefully we
get some light hopefully I survived the hike don't know why the altitude's
beating me so bad today
so Jodie's just seen a sheep so there's a good chance she won't be joining us for
sunset um Jodies's feeling altitude too which makes me feel better
are you not short of breath or anything so I'm the only one feeling the altitude
um town is really cool the town is really really cool
and I think tomorrow morning we're gonna photograph town some other way but right
now I think this scene is gonna be all about this mountain and you've got this
building in the foreground and with a nice backdrop of leading lines up to
some alpenglow I could be happy
so compression is a funny thing telephoto compression can make this
scene look epic we found this spot and I think this is the shot even though if
you were to just walk up here you'd think you want to get closer to that old
building which I'm assuming is a church because I see a cross and I know nothing
about this but with telephoto compression it
reaches out in the landscape and makes the building look really dramatic under
a massive mountain and the reason I'm shooting it right here I'm gonna shoot
it right here is because the way the shadows are it almost creates a frame
around the building and I think this is gonna be perfect and the photo will look
nothing like this
basically as soon as I stopped filming and put away the 100-400mm
that the light stopped being in the back
of this shot where I needed to frame it so I think we're gonna move a little bit
farther that way and maybe get a little bit more of the dramatic peak so we're
gonna walk up a little bit higher here
so I haven't talked about the new lenses recently but I do have two new lenses 24
to 70 and the 100-400mm and both of the lenses are what I'm working with today
and actually I like them both I'm using the 24 to 70 more than I
expected and finding myself at least with landscape shooting a lot 50 to 70 I
had no idea how often I'd want to be that focal length and right now I'm
exactly that focal length I'm using kind of this valley to create a V that leads
straight into the old church with the mountains at the backdrop there's some
clouds right now on the peaks and eventually if this catches light it'll
be amazing but I'm going to show you an image right now because I'm taking an
image right now just to make sure I get something I've got a 4 stop medium grad
on and yeah I think like light or no light is such a beautiful scene that it
just works
so we're gonna whisper light and I'm gonna shoot this and then basically
switch between this and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 because the
100-400mm vertical and totally tele- compressed is just gonna look ultra
dramatic
Greg's got the drone up and I'm kind of kicking myself for not taking my drone
on this trip just because I actually think the best photo is probably just a
drone photos slightly elevated right in front of this with the mountains in the
backdrop how's it look yeah it looks amazing
one of my favorite things about shooting in Georgia is almost every time we've
gone out to take pictures there's been a dog that's come and join us and they
don't like bark they don't cause trouble they kind of just come and lay by you
and act cute
not sure how Greg spotted this but way off that way it's just screaming behind
me I don't know what Greg spotted this but there's two black spots way out that
way and Greg's like I think those are two priests and if you've come to
Georgia or if you haven't seen them Google like an old Georgian priest I
think is probably the best way to say it to describe it but they kind of looked
the same way you think of maybe a cleric in the Middle East they have black robes
on in these big beards and they look really kind of intense and there's two
of them on a hill way out back that way and I just took the 100-400mm and I
don't think the photos any good because it's really hard to show what it is even
at 400mm but I took some video on the cropped 4k I think it looks so
cool
so that kind of brings me to the `00-400mm I was worried that I was gonna pack
it around and not use it very much I think I've actually taken as many photos
of my 100-400mm as all the rest of my lenses combined so far I'm absolutely
loving it it's sharp it's crisp it's fast to focus the video looks good the
stabilization looks good and it might be my favorite lens
I basically filmed a whole vlog just standing in one spot and I feel kind of
proud about that the light was really nice but it wasn't epic but yeah it was
still beautiful in this scene I think it doesn't matter what the light looks like
at this scene it's so cool that it just it just works Greg and I are gonna get
up early tomorrow morning and shoot probably one of the villages one of the
town's because this is beautiful it's interesting but I think also the towns
are really nice it might just need to be a little bit later in the morning when
there's light coming through the valley so check for that vlog tomorrow and I
guess I'll see you there peace