What is this weather doing to me?
Hello.
Here we are again on a another mission.
I keep saying ‘mission’ and I’m going to stick with it, so there we go.
Today, I'm doing some reconnaissance.
I'm going to do some scouting, a little bit of planning for future shoots.
The weather today is not particularly great: it's grey, it's overcast, not good conditions
for photography.
But that doesn't matter because all I want to do today is just find some nice compositions
for use in future when the sun’s in the right place, the weather is better and there’s
some nice light on that landscape.
Today, I'm going to a place called High Cup Nick in the Pennines.
It's a place where there’s a canyon cut out of the landscape by a glacier, in the
past.
So, it should provide some really nice scenery.
It is fairly long drive ahead of me, so let's go.
I have arrived.
I have started my walk.
I'm glad, I'm glad that I am just scouting today because the day, already, hasn’t started
off as well as it could have done.
I was just getting this shot here, just to tell the story that a little bit of spring
is starting to come through, I stumbled and dropped the camera into the mud.
So, not a massive deal.
It’s probably reduced the value of my camera a little bit when I come to sell it but never
mind, that’s happened, I’ve recovered.
I’m on my way.
It’s all good.
Weather wise, things aren't too bad.
You can see it’s quite a white-out, at the moment, with the cloud.
It is quite still which is nice.
Like I said, no pressure today.
I’m just scouting.
A bit more ahead of me so let’s keep going.
One of the other things I'm doing today is trying out this new super wide-angle lens.
I can't talk about it yet.
There will be review coming out as soon as this lens comes out.
I’ve just stopped at this tree and you may be able to hear the echo that this tree is
causing.
It really is a pretty tree.
I’ll just spin around to show you that.
Quite a big oak tree I think it is and it's just sitting over the landscape here.
There isn’t, really, a composition for a normal lens but I’ve gone in close, got
this crazy perspective that this lens gives and captured this shot.
It may not be to your taste but it's interesting what this really wide angle lens can do.
I’m looking forward to using that a little bit more today and then showing you the review
when I’m allowed to release that.
The sun is threatening.
I’m pretty certain I’m not going to see it today though.
I hope you could hear that.
I’m pretty close to a military testing ground.
I’d love to see some of that…not in the way of bullets, obviously.
I’ve stopped because I’ve found a composition.
This is an example of the kind of thing I’m talking about.
The wind is getting up a little bit as well.
I hope that’s not causing you too many problems.
I’ve got the camera set up here in the composition.
It’s kind of looking at this hill behind my head here, the track this side is leading
you in and then the bank, that I’m currently stood on, is leading you into the image the
other side with the gate in the foreground.
It isn't gonna make for the best image today.
It’s not going to be a great image at all.
I’ve gone for a long exposure to try and make the best of it and pull some nice detail
out of the sky as well.
But, in the summer, I think it will be a really great shot because I know, already, from my
planning, that the sun will set somewhere behind that hill there.
The sky could be full of colour and the bank I'm stood on, which is leading you in, has
a little bit of heather in it.
If that was flowering, it could really, really be an interesting shot with some of the evening
light shining on that.
It's not the sort of shot I would have known about unless I had come out today on this
little scouting mission.
Right, I’m finished there.
I need to keep going.
The wind is getting up a bit now.
I need to keep on going.
I think I’m about to get my first view of High Cup Nick, as well, which I’m excited
about.
The weather is forecast to get worse today so I don’t want to waste too much more time.
I’m just taking shelter in this boulder field, as you can see here, and I’ve the
camera set up on the tripod with that 11mm wide angle lens on.
It is very, very close to the boulder field, as you can see but I'm still managing to get
the whole thing in the scene with that mountain in the back, or the hill, the mountain, whatever
it is, in the background there as well.
It’s going to be a decent shot today, I think, if I turn it into a moody, black-and-white
type shot.
But I’m scouting today so in the summer I know that the sun will rise just behind
the mountain, in the background, getting some colour in that sky and some of that golden
hour light hitting these rocks.
I know it could be a really, really special image.
So, I’m going to have to come back here again, at some point, in the summer.
I’ll, probably, camp over.
I’m going to do a lot more wild camping.
Right, I’ve just had some lunch.
Now, the next stop is the top of High Cup Nick.
Right, so I made it to the top of High Cup Nick in the Pennines.
I’ve got those 360° views all….no I haven’t.
The weather has seriously turned on me.
It was, literally, seconds when this came over.
I’m not, actually, too fussed because I’ve got a couple of nice shots on the way up,
I think, that would only have worked in the mist.
I knew about this shot anyway, where I am right now, the shot right down that valley,
right down the Nick That was the shot I came for, with that wide-angle lens. i’ll come
back another day when the weather’s better.
For now, I have a fairly decent trek back down.
What is this weather doing to me?
I’m going to get back down into the valley and, hopefully, there’ll be a shot to pick
up down the bottom once I get get back underneath this cloud.
It’s going to be very moody with that lid of cloud but you never know.
It could turn into something half decent.
I’m back down, into the valley.
The descent was insane.
I ran into a couple of people which reassured me I wasn’t coming down alone.
I was happy about that.
I’ve got another time lapse going, at the moment, over there.
The weather, yet again, I’ve fallen foul of but it's been absolutely brilliant today.
I think, probably, I got couple of alright shots and I’ve scouted out some really nice
locations for another day when the weather is a little bit better.
So, just a couple of little things.
I am now dedicating more time to First Man Photography, as the channel starts to grow.
I’m going to be aiming to do a vlog every week.
So, if haven’t subscribed already, please do so for new videos every Sunday and every
Wednesday and, hopefully, the weather, at some point, will do good for me.
So, I'm not complaining though.
I’ve absolutely loved today but in a very rainy, wet and windy Pennines, I’m Adam.
This is First Man Photography…out.