Aaggghhhh.....tough day, tough day of landscape photography
wa-hey.... Today I am going on another landscape photography mission. I'm going to
take the pressure off myself a little bit today though and try and just enjoy
a nice evening walk a lot of videos I've done recently I've gone out aiming to
get really big sunset shot at the end of the day and it's gone pretty well for me
so far this spring to be fair but there is a lot of pressure when I'm doing a
vlog to have a big picture at the end of it because if it doesn't, it sometimes
makes these vlogs not quite work as well it doesn't tell the story
quite as well and it's a lot of pressure so tonight I've got a location picked
out but I've got no idea about the compositions that I may find I'm just
going to go for a walk enjoy the scenery and try and find some nice images in
what I see I'm still going up a hill somewhere in North Yorkshire and the
weather is still looking pretty good so it could still turn into a really nice
evening with some really nice images captured but I've got a little drive
ahead of me let's go
okay so I've arrived and the Great British weather has turned against me it
was beautiful when I left it was sunny it was warm, now
this front has moved in and it's raining and it's cold it's windy and it's overcast
so my photography conditions that were perfect before have switched on me so
I'm gonna go for walk I'm gonna see what I can see I'm hoping this weather
will change for the better a little bit as we get going but frustrating it was
so nice
So whilst the weather is absolutely grotty now I have got an absolutely spectacular
view behind me over North Yorkshire here. It's tremendous. I didn't know this
existed but I've come here and found it and apparently the writer James Herriot
claims that this was one of the finest views in England I'm not sure about that
it is beautiful maybe he hadn't been to the Lake District who knows there is actually
some really nice interest in the cloud as well the Sun is streaking through
some of the bits I really did want some nice clouds and blue sky and there a
nice sunset as well so I can't hide the fact I'm a little bit disappointed by this weather.
Ahhh....f$%^ing miserable weather
this is not what I had planned
that time lapse better be good.
Right so i've found this amazing spot I've got a really nice composition pulled out
there's actually a few here just from this one viewpoint here. Now, the
light is doing loads of different things. The sun is out at the moment but a second
ago it was overcast and then I had really interesting sky with streaks of light
coming through the clouds I've got the camera set up I've already captured a
couple of images but what I'm going for composition wise is I've got this tree
just over my shoulder here which is sort of sitting at the right hand side of the
frame I've then got the little reservoir over my shoulder here that you can
hopefully see and that's acting as that nice bit of interest in the mid-ground
in the foreground I'm using the bank that's just behind me here and there's
just a few beautiful purple flowers they're not very big in the frame but
hopefully I'll be able to bring them out a bit more in post-production and then
in the background got the really really dramatic sky with
those streaks coming through there I've been firing off a few shots because the
light is just changing all the time I'm just rolling my exposure up and down to
make the best of that light I'm bracketing as well because there's a
massive dynamic range between that sky and the foreground which has been in
shadow at certain points I have also been at iso 400 because I'm at f/11 but I
don't really want any movement particularly in that tree but also the
grass in front of me here so I needed to up the ISO a little bit just to get the
shutter speed up because I've got the circular polarizer on but I don't want a
long exposure cause I want to have those nice sharp details in those flowers
it's brutal conditions actually to photograph in but I've got some amazing
light coming and going all the time so it's just about trying to make the most
of it I know I've captured a shot though and I
think it could be something pretty special
ah this is frustrating the light is just changing so fast my camera just seems to
be pointed in the wrong direction the whole time I'm capturing another
time-lapse at the moment of the hills over my shoulder here but the light then over
here is just unbelievable..... conditions like this are so difficult, things just
changing so fast and I'm just reacting, there's not the planning has essentially
gone out the window now which is not how I like to operate and I feel like I'm
chasing my tail now so it's particularly annoying and I feel like I am missing that
magical shot ......maybe I'm not I don't know but I know I've got me something good so
shouldn't be too out of myself but I just feel like there's more here and I
want to capture it because it's absolutely magical up here and as the
weather's changing it's just so dramatic it feels up here having a walk I've got
the right clothing on it would be amazing but when I'm trying to capture
'that shot' tough day, tough day of landscape photography
okay I've got my second composition now right on the edge of the cliff there it
is actually quite scary I'm not taking any risk I'm staying a nice couple meters
back from the edge it's absolutely brutal up here, the wind is
just so strong I've got the tripod legs spread out as much as I can I'm not
doing a long exposure or anything but it's thankfully blowing me back on to
this cliff edge so there's no danger of me going over the edge because of the
wind but oh tough photography conditions, tough landscape photography conditions.
I have a really nice composition again though I've got a nice cliff edge on the
left-hand side of the frame I've then got that lake in the middle of the frame
as well and then up into those dramatic clouds....i'm facing southwest
so even at this time of year i'm not going to get the sun in that frame the
sun sets in the northwest at this time of year, i'm hoping i'll see a bit of sun
actually at sunset time and see it streaking across the landscape really
adding some interest to this image so i'm just gonna hang fire until sunset
time and try and snatch, or salvage some sort of shot.....Phew!!! it is hard work
today you maybe see that on my face i don't know
Right I'm not gonna lie I didn't
really enjoy that that was hard work and I was getting
absolutely battered by that wind I've taken a bit of shelter behind these
trees at the moment but the Sun did appear for a moment and I got a shot with
some of that nice golden light on that cliff face I probably should have hung
around for another ten minutes or so because the clouds were starting to
light up although the Sun had gone behind the horizon cloud so probably
should have hung around something might have happened but I'd had enough to be
honest hard work up here today really hard work sometimes you've got to go
through these moments you never know what you're going to capture still good
though I know when I get back into the car I'm going to get that real good
sense of well-being and to me that's what landscape photography is all about
it's about pushing through these tough times sometimes because it gives you
that boost when you come through it you get stronger for it you always always
learn something from it and today I'm sure I've learned a lot it may take some
time to sink in..... on the drive home or when I sleep tonight I might wake up with a
fresh perspective in the morning but although it was windy and I didn't
particularly enjoy it there's never a bad day when you're shooting landscape
photography so Ill end the vlog there. please do leave a comment down below let me know
what you think and if you would share the video that would really mean a lot
to me I'm hoping for better weather on the next one but for now I'm Adam this
is First Man Photography in North Yorkshire again..... I'm gonna run
Out!!!!!