so Gavin you gto everything you've got your camera bag? Got my camera bag
go yer tripod? tripod! Got your aluminium ladder? Oh aluminium stepladder
can't forget that alright. let's go alright!
This is a story about the vital
importance of having a plan B with your landscape photography.
it's also a story about dedication it's about the lengths that we go to on the very slim very
minuscule off chance that all our works gonna pay off and we finally get that shot.
Because to the landscape photographer, dragging a 20-foot aluminium stepladder
through a rain forest to a remote beach cave is completely reasonable. We don't
see anything wrong with that. Except for those days when despite all of your
meticulous planning and effort. things don't quite turn out the way they should.
it's going to be awesome
Oh fer Feks sake man.
Oh look. It would seem that the low tide is actually horrendously high.
Oh dear.
well I'm pretty sour about this we've just driven three hours. Hiked through the
forest with our stepladder and it's complete failure. The tide is coming in
it's too dangerous we can't get in to shoot this waterfall so Plan B.
After a few minutes of slow-motion sulking on a cliff edge, it became clear that our
destinies lay in the northern reaches of the island
so we're off to a place called Karst Creek Falls
Up in Strathcona Regional Park Provincial Park Strathcona Provincial Park now I've never been
there before but Adam has what do you think to it I think it's great
Link to my video up here. (Cackling) ..... subtle.
I like the shots that you've of it.
like is is it's got a lot of foreground interest to lead your eye into the
waterfall
Yes. It's definitely seasonal though so, in the summer it's not worth going to
photo just disappears now this time you I've
never been here there this time of year so I don't be interested to see. It could
be half frozen we just we don't know because it's it's almost Christmas it's
December and things are getting really cold really quick and it's frost and
ice everywhere it's fantastic but we just don't know what we're gonna get
fingers crossed I think I get something special and I'll
be shooting this today with a nikon d850
How about you Gavin?........Well I'm glad you asked.
If you're interested in a Nikon D850, I'll leave the link below.
Witchy Cackling!
so after many many more hours of driving we finally arrived at our plan B destination.
Adam was quite eager to check out this glory hole that he'd read
about on Craigslist. So I said I'd just wait it out and eat my sandwiches.
let him finish his business.
so while Adams busy having his plop, I'm gonna tuck into my homemade sandwich which is a smidge soggy.
a little bit concerned because we just pulled into the car park right next to
the creek and I don't see any water so there may not be a shot there may not be
a waterfall this might have been a two and a half hour journey for nothing
while I'm busy scoffing lunch Adams just gone for a little recce mission to see if
there is any water and here he is.
What's the verdict? bone-dry nothing not one bit
of water nothing. What a waste of time this was just a rock , rock, dry rock bed.
I can't believe it
once again our plans had been shat upon
from a great great height. Plan B was in ruined tatters. But there was always Plan C.
I wonder if Myra Falls is worth going to?
not to be defeated we headed straight up the
road to Myra Falls and we were encouraged by the ice and the frost all
over the trees on the way to the Falls all right Plan B I'll see I can't
remember which plan this is Myra Falls here we come you've done a video of this
before right I have link all right let's get crackin
so after two failures we really needed this third attempt to be successful
would Myra Falls failures or would we get the shot so Plan B Myra Falls it's
quite impressive right now I love all of this ice is coming from the spray the
temperature is about zero Celsius but I reckon for the last week has probably
been about minus eight overnight so that's why this gorgeous I woke up I
said you see hanging down off without log there now pinion many time
before and I've always found that the better shots are further down the canyon
so I'm going to work my way down a super sketchy
I didn't bring my crampons when I did until when we were shooting this cut it
terrain so I have to be very careful on the trail so I don't fall it I do not
want to end up in there Adams further upriver hopefully playing
with his joins and get some more footage of me looking awesome yeah get downriver
see if I get some shots now I've spent quite a few winters in the Canadian
Rockies and I've got enough experience with ice to know that you cannot trust
it it's very unpredictable and if you don't have the right equipment it's very
very dangerous so you've got to be super careful
okay so this is not the most elegant tutorial I've ever done but I'm right on
an icy cliff edge I have no crampons and nothing this is
the stupidest thing I've ever done but whatever got to get the shot now let me
clean my lens so you can't see it from this angle but I have a ginormous
waterfall in front of me and it's absolutely blowing a gale
we can't pause my shot oh that is absolutely glorious my bum that is
freezing okay even it's gone numb okay even feel it so now while I'm here my
bum is completely numb and I go a little bit closer to the edge my bum is stuck
to the ice okay I can't get up I've actually stuck okay this is sketchy
as fuck so the reason why I want to get closer to the edge is the further over
to the edge I get the more of those ice chandeliers I see but this is really
stupid Gavin what are you doing just get a grip okay so now I'm gonna zoom in a
bit well the zoom in a lot and really fill
the frame with the main drop the ice chandelier and that bit of green water
at the front and I'm actually gonna focus on those ice chandeliers in the
distance there oh my phone is so cold my batty
okay perfectly in focus now okay I'm gonna go back to f11 now I want a little
bit of depth of field okay so I'm taking the correct exposure the camera is
telling me I need to be at point 6 of a second to get a perfect exposure we know
that the water's gonna be blown out we're not too worried okay that looks
pretty juicy so now what we're gonna do I'm gonna over expose it to 3.2 seconds
because I want that gorgeous aquamarine so it's kind of shadowy I want to bring
out that dark area so 3.2 seconds I don't care that the water is completely
blown out that's not an issue right now oh that's gorgeous oh my god let's do it
slightly underexposed at 2 seconds that's just lovely so I've got
everything I want except for the water so now I need the make sure that I've
got faster exposures for the water let's go back all the way to 1/6 of a
second it's gonna be super dark let's have a look at that it's nice yeah let's
do one water of a second let's have a look at that and what I'm looking at
here is this texture in the water where the drop hits the pool and you get all
of that movement in that green water I want to get detail in there so that's
what I'm looking for and it's a bit blown out so I'm gonna have to stop down
I'll go to f-14 quarter of a second well that's fix that think I still like
a longer exposure though so f-16 and now let's go to point four of a second it's
almost half a second and I seem to remember that was quite juicy earlier so
let's have a look oh oh that is gorgeous I think that might be the one so let me
zoom in and look at that make sure I've got everything oh yeah lots of texture
lots of movement very dramatic yeah I think that's it I think I've got the
shot
one of the benefits of shooting with Adam Gibbs is that he gets this gorgeous
drawn footage and he even makes me look cool so if you want to see some mod
juiciness like this head over to Adams channel and check out his videos
I've only gone and put together the ultimate photography costs for
waterfalls it's called how to photograph waterfalls and this is 3 hours of HD
video tutorial that is not a snarf fest you will not fall asleep you will not be
bored you will enjoy this you might even get a laugh out of it and you will learn
so what it is I put together 3 tutorials and they start from a very small a
medium size and then a very large waterfall and these tutorials they're
all start to finish so I show you how I shoot it I'm there in the field you're
on location with me and then after the shoot we've got back into Photoshop and
I show you how I put all these images together so in addition to the 3 hours
of HD video tutorial you'll also get access to the raw files so I'm going to
give you the raw files that I shot on location and that you're gonna see in
the processing videos and you're going to get access to a closed Facebook group
so you can post your own images and I'll critique your images and if you've got
any support questions I'll be able to give you the answers on Facebook so
you'll find the link just up there - how to photograph waterfalls and if you
order today you can save money as a pre-order because this comes out on
Boxing Day ok thanks for watching back to the video well that was a bit
nerve-wracking but I don't manage to capture some amazing drone footage and I
managed to finish the tutorial without falling off that icy cliff not the most
intelligent to our tutorial that I've ever done but
you got to get the shot yeah it's Adams turn to get in there and play with the
shot gorgeous colors in that Canyon so wait
for Adam to do that and then if we still feel up to it and look to get money for
the side of the canyon and shoot diagonally so that you see more of those
icy chandeliers this side so we'll see we'll see how long it takes Adam to get
in and out and then if we can even get across might be impossible but yeah very
happy that we got out of Plan B or C or whatever it was it was stuck to it
Adam wisely performs the bum shuffle to get safely in place I'm setting up his
shot time for some coffee I really wish had some chocolate to go
with this Nova but now that I'm a YouTube celebrity you know account the
in the tough walls I'm going to swing down those 22 followers really named it
to look good so what do you think baby guy good Chuck
well in spite of Adams chafing bomb grips we still managed to have a bit of
fun
I shall smite thee round two will be the decider witness the victorious happy
dance if you were considering booking a workshop with either of these two
instructors you just know that you can expect the highest levels of
professionalism so yeah we're gonna we're gonna head up to the upper part of
the Falls see if we get some Marsha get stager I'm glad there would know a
sputum with that so yeah we're gonna get up to thee so yeah we're gonna head up
to the other part of the Falls the very top section and see if we can get a shot
and know that there's also a shot from the top looking down so maybe we'll see
if we can get that for a bit
well I'm almost ready to admit defeat and say that's it I'm done but I just
spotted one last potential shot which is this lovely little drop that you see
here and if you ever saw that butchart gardens video you might remember that I
was kind of really thinking hard about using longer focal lengths getting a
tight shot and get one of those detail images that I often overlooked and I
think that might just work
oh what a surprise we were just about to leave head back to the car and then we
spotted this gorgeous scene and that's it we were hooked
we can't resist this so we've got everything from beautiful aquamarine
water we've got bubbles flowing into the
foreground give you those gorgeous streaks on the long exposure the power
of that dramatic waterfall and icicles hanging off of these clips what more do
you want
so we might not have got the shots that we originally set out to get but with
dedication and persistence and a willingness to try a plan B and even a
Plan C we managed to salvage what would otherwise have been a completely wasted
day and end up with some pre sweet shots I really hope you enjoyed this video
because this was one of the more difficult ones to make we tried really
hard to get some good shots but you know the conditions weren't ideal but we got
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