Hello and Merry Christmas and welcome to an absolutely beautiful morning in the Lake
District for another day of landscape photography. I've got three locations
picked out today this first one is looking over a very icy and very cold
Blencathra so we've got a lot planned today is gonna be cold, it's gonna be impressive
so let's go
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Okay so I'm set up for
my first shot of day I'm in the same location where I started but I've got
the camera set up on the tripod and the shot I have in mind is pretty much the
stunning scene, simply stunning scene behind me i am using the tilt shift
lens again and I am using the shift function to create a panorama that i am gonna
stitch together to get this whole scene in because I've got this frozen tarn
here which is particularly impressive and that's reflecting some of the light
back into the camera that's reflecting off the snow or the ice on the mountain
and it's looking particularly good so it's gonna be a sort of scene a little bit
like this so I've got Skiddaw mountain in the background that way and
then we sort of go across the shot and then we've got Blencathra which is
sort of peaked with a bit of cloud and it's looking particularly impressive
this morning that's the composition I'm using some of these frozen Reed's in the
foreground and then in the mid ground we've got that frozen tan which is Tewet
Tarn I believe and then you've got those...... just they take your breath away to be
fair those mountains in the background there are just remarkable really and
that's the shot so all I'm doing is I'm at....... The camera's turned itself
off because I've just been enjoying the moment. I'm at f/8 and 1/50th of a
second iso 100 and then it's five shots as i rotate or as I turn the shift
function it goes from all the way over to the
left and then all the way over to the right and that's where the shot finishes
so a nice panorama with just stunning light on the mountain there's some
really dramatic dramatic light over on Skiddaw as well which is just really
adding to the scene and I think it's gonna work out really nicely and just be
a classic Lake District winter shot. Its a good start of the day I've got a couple
of other locations I want to get some of this good light with. I'm gonna pack up now
I've done some drone work nice little time lapse as well with the Sun rising
up onto that mountain so I want to get to my next location and make the most of
this truly stunning morning. There's not a breath of
wind in the air either it's just really special really quiet there are a couple
of other people around us that's all good so let's get to the next location
So second amazing location of the day and I'm at Castlerigg Stone Circle it's
just a small stone circle which is very very old....I don't know the details of
it I'm sure you can look it up on Google if you wish it's just outside of Keswick
and it's a really accessible location which I've shot before. The problem with
the location is it does get very very busy it's very popular it's not always
ideal for a photograph, a long exposure can help you out to sort of get rid of
the people but this morning there was a couple of people around when I got here
they've now gone and I've got the whole place to myself so it's working out
really nicely an amazing day it still got a bit of a chesty cough this cold
weather is not helping but it is absolutely stunning morning so the
reward is there. I'm feeling good at the moment
I've shot this place before it's actually really difficult to get a
really nice composition because the stone circle is actually on top of the
hill so you can't always get a raised position to actually see the whole thing
if you get close enough you do get a little bit of that but then you don't
get the whole thing in even with a wide-angle lens I'm using the tilt shift
lens to my advantage again today because I've got the tripod up as high as it
will go cameras as high as it will go and then I'm using that shift function
again to take a panorama of the stone circle with a wide-angle lens if you
just sort of tilted the camera around to do your panorama it wouldn't look right
it would just look very warped in the image but this tilt shift lens.... as you use
that shift function to move the lens across the sensor it really really
produces a really nice panorama I'm at f/16 because there's quite a lot of
difference in the depth of field between the front stone and the back stone so
I'm at f/16 to get that maximum depth of field. I am at ISO 100 then I'm just balancing
out that exposure with my (ISO - error in speech) shutter speed and I'm just being careful because it's brighter
on this side where the Sun sort of starts to approach the image that it is
on this side so I've underexposed a tiny bit on this side and as I go across the
image is just nicely exposed and I'll be able to sort that out in post-production
I've taken the shot already I'm really happy with it I've just did about five
shots again which I'm going to stitch into a panorama and it should work out
really nice the mountains are snow-capped in the background I've got
some really interesting clouds as well it's just looking absolutely beautiful
I've got a busy day but what a great way to start it. That feeling of well-being I
keep talking about I've been in desperate need of that recently so it's
good to be out and about again shooting some landscape photography
right time for the third location of the day
Okay so I'm in position for the last shot of the day and this is probably
going to work out just as a bit of a scouting shot because the light on the
mountain behind me which is Skiddaw is not quite right it's a bit cloudy over
here as you can see where the lights coming from and I wanted that to be
casting that nice light right across onto the mountain itself at this time of
year in the Lake District or this far north
it is pretty much golden hour all day long so you get that really good quality
light striking the mountains especially when they're snow-capped as well there
is a bit of cloud coming down across the top of the mountain as well so it's not
gonna be the perfect shot but I wanted to come here while I've got the tilt
shift lens. The tilt shift lens is not mine, I am thinking about getting one because
it's adding a lot to what I'm doing the reason is because similar to the last
shot is this in this position even with a wide-angle lens you struggling to get
that whole shape of Skiddaw in there so I wanted to use a panorama and panoramas
that this tilt shift lens creates are just so much nicer and so much smoother
and less distortion than your normal type panorama with a normal lens it's
really like the images that it produces I wanted to come to this spot which I've
been to before just to get it right composition wise again it's not perfect
there are actually some rocks hiding under the water here the water level is
quite high today I wanted to use them as my foreground interest but it's not to
be but there is these sort of reeds covered in ice here which are still
providing some interest in the foreground you've then got the the lake
there which is Bassenthwaite Lake I've got a polarizer on just to take a little
bit of the sheen off the top of the water and then you're up into the mountains
I'm at f/16 because I'm quite close to this foreground and then obviously
that mountain is quite far away so I want that maximum depth of field. I'm at a
shutter speed of about an eighth of a second I believe and then i'm at ISO 100 I'm
doing the five shots with the tilt shift lens just using that shift again I'll
combine it in post-production and it'll come up with the final image there is a
nice bit of light actually striking the mountain and it's gonna add a bit of
contrast to the scene as well but I think as a whole it's still gonna be a
pretty nice Lake District panorama image and that's what today has been all about.
So what an absolutely brilliant morning in the Lake District it's really got
me into that Christmas mood all this frost and ice and the cold weather and the
beautiful snow-capped mountains. I'm looking forward to some time with my
family over the next few days as well yet again another absolutely spectacular
day in the Lake District and today I wanted to make it just so it was a bit
more accessible. I didn't want to climb up a mountain today because I've still got
this cold which is lingering. It takes longer to get over when you're a bit
older doesn't it?.... but..... what I've been thinking about doing as well is creating
sort of photo guides and walking guides with GPS positions of where I've been
during the vlogs. If that's something you're interested in please do leave a
comment down below and let me know it will include pictures of where you can
park, instructions of where you can take a decent shot, all that sort of stuff I
want to hear from you. I'm not gonna be able to offer it for free because it
will take quite a lot of work so I'm thinking around about five pounds will
be pretty reasonable but let me know what you think down below in the
comments and really appreciate your feedback on this as well before we go
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I hope you have a really really great Christmas I'll see you on New Year's Eve
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