as you can see it's a pretty dull and
gloomy day here today now I'm sure many of us have all been
somewhere exciting somewhere they've always wanted to visit and the weather is
closed and everything that you really dull it's a massive disappointed because
you want to go and shoot a few pictures
well i'm here in Reykjavik i got a couple days between the next workshop
and as you can see it's incredibly dull it's incredibly lifeless
now with the bit of thought we can usually find pictures
anywhere it's a case if looking to see what happens so this is the street in
where the apartment I'm staying East
as you can see it looks gloomy as hell so I thought when we take a little walk
up the street
and see if we can find a couple of images just to brighten the day up we're not going not
somewhere special not somewhere exciting so we can find a couple cool pictures
here
we should be to find some anywhere
I think there's a shot to be had
here now instead trying to include
the whole house in the picture because everything surrounding is really really
dull
we actually got a nice colors like the red white and the black and white on the ground
in front
so what I'm kinda thinking is how about a very flat square on image then try and
shoot the whole house cuz you don't need the whole house and the surrounding is the
dull
so let's isolate something within it looks a bit more interesting
what focal lengths do i need sort out the composition and also use your
first block of photography you brilliant brain
think you know that that's what im doing just now talking about what's going on around it
how we gonna do this
well let's see if we can find the composition
because I quite like the red and white of the front to the building I like the
door on
this little balcony just here and then maybe but the snow down below so
framing it up and just tweaking my zoom in and out it needs to be up and down
straight shot like the white line across the top
so I think i found my composition in this case I'm gonna need about
60 millimetres on a full frame sensor what about depth of the field
well we don't need any do it's very flat picture so it doesn't really matter too
much which aperture to use as long your shutter speed is fast enough
to be able to freeze the image makes sure you dont get camera shakes it's a dull day
it's also a bit windy so now
line at my shot now very important to be careful to get everything nicely aligned
because if the verticals askew and around its gonna look pretty rubbish
you need a bend the knees just find the place where it works it's about then I
got a 200 of a second
F8 is a perfect aperture so making sure everything straight
there we go we got quite nice little composition you can see this just
hint
of snow on the ground in front and also cause when we take into lightroom remember
we we do a bit of post-production
we can make that rate just a tiny bit more vibrant let's go see if we can find
another one
I'm here's a colorful little corner
look at this colors I love this
graffiti going on here and the steps
and everything that's happening going on through there in the little anyway I
think it looks really pretty cool it can make a great picture because we're not
including
what's going on out in the environment so
where we gonna shoot how we gonna shoot it the way i'm saying is
and if you can see some little yellow drums If i go this side
just down in there and I just kinda like that little clutter it's a little bit of life you know
it's a little bit of life and it's very colorful colorful works really really
well
on a dull day show how we gonna shoot this
I'm seeing it wide angle 24 millimeters so we can include
the red in the green and these steps here as well as a bit of the graffiti
what's going on down the alley you know the drums and a the rubbish and stuff
like that
so where do we need to be to shoot the picture
move yourself around don't be afraid to experiment let's have a look
I reckon it's gonna be somewhere around here next
depth the field we're gonna be shooting all the way down into the alley
so I wanna make my aperture fairly small
use your first building block photography this thing up here so im gonna go about f11
so what shutter speed will that give me not have a lot you gonna do this with
the shop composed remember
right now it's telling may only be weighed down around about
20th a second be too slow isn't it
hand-hold 24 mil lens so where do we go
could use this ISO push the ISO up let's take that around 800 so let's see what
shutter speed I get I think I'll be somewhere in the 50 S
I'm on the 20th still let's try depth of the field preview
i still need to go higher it's taking to a 1000
I'm pretty good at holding the camera still let's have a look
now yea a 1000 ISO, i forgot to change my shutter speed
change my shutter speed i was too busy worrying that the guy was gonna
move his car just now
because you can see it his right next to the tripod a that\s gonna give me 50th of a second
1000 ISO that's gonna work
perfectly let's get the shot composed right I'm gonna have to do it looking
weird in the street
thing but you know me so need to bend my knees cuz
I don't want this to converge i want to keep this nice and straight
in the picture so let's have a look where do we need to be i want include this bit of this
graffiti going on just here
as well so find the place, bend my knees
even I don't cut off the bottom of these steps down there
so lined it up down down down it's about here
focus I'm gonna focus or I don't know
somewhere around somewhere in here
just back a little bit because f11 is gonna pull my block of sharpness
this way so everything should be shot what you do is check it
in the viewfinder are you alright for a moment mate
back that way? cool thank you that's alright im just
filming something is that ok you can thank
so we're gonna shoot it and am here
focus just in those steps nice man okay to reverse his struck out so I don't
have to move the camera
the video camera get that straight lined up
I don't wanna lose the top for the door so back a bit against the car
oh its tight but I think
I can just about do it from there
and there we go I have just clipped the top with the door a little bit but
we've got
quite a nice shots let's have a look of histogram
what's that gotta tell me I'm just a tad
overexposed which is a surprise the light is changing because the cloud
thicknesses varying all the time I'm shooting
so ilet's just take it up
and an insy bit ah let's go to
F13 bit more depth of field try the shot again
let's come down here
into the street you know dont worry about
dont be too self-conscious its okno one was gonna worry but also it's about
getting a feel for the culture
these Icelandic are very friendly people there it is
that's better that's quite a nice
colorful little back-alley sort of a shot
it's starting to rain and I'm hoping i can find just one more somewhere
so I can show you what I'm thinking how to find a few pictures on a dreadfully
dull day
i wonder what's up the street
I just spotted a yellow door way here
you might become completely bonkers on the corner of the street
quite busy and by the way I'm filming myself so passer by think im completely
nuts
but the thing is that little yellow door way at the bottom of the building
its bright it's a color it's a prime color is gonna stand out against
the gray of the building its gonna really really cool how we gonna do this because
I don't too much
sky but I like the shape to the roof up there and I'm thinking if I put that doorway
smack in the middle of a composition
using this thing pre-visualizing stick it right in the middle of a
composition
its gonna work we can pimp that yellow up a little bit in Lightroom in
post-production
just to give it a bit more saturation now how we gonna shoot this it's gonna be a little bit
tricky
this is in the middle of a junction as you can see so
the moment i press the record button , i got much busier than it was
see what we can do right first on
focal length what am I gonna need let me see how we gonna do this and I'm gonna
need to kind of step into the street
such let's gonna hope and I dont get run over lets just see that car going that way
let's see what's gonna happen it's about here
so that's telling me the focal length i want
it's gonna be about 50 millimetres
i may get rain spots is just starting to rain really full costing Julia of a
storm
depth of field i dont need a huge amount do i because it's a fairly
flat image so I'm gonna go with something to keep my shutter speed
relatively fast to go back to 6.3
what shutter speed will i need for that the one that works I don't know yet till i
compose the picture you have to do this
we don't shot composed right classes in the street
let's see what we can do that's not bad
over here focus shutter speed
speed that up and squeeze the shot before get run over
by a van there we go
I think we got quite nice to shot there I like the Yellow Door in the middle
yea I like that with the windows either side and the little thing over the top
little
arch way so as you can see even on a really really really flat dull day
there are still some pictures to be had you don't have to sit in the hotel room
waiting around hoping the Sun will come out his to get out there with the camera
use this thing pre visualize think how to assemble some images
but also think on to what i kind call it the eight
block of photography if you like and that is how you gonna post process the image
to bring it to life alright I'm going back to my little guest house because
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