Good morning everybody today i'm in the Malvern hills again and i was thinking the other day i
always go out and i plan my shoots especially my landscape shoots i might get a few photos
on the way and on the way back but generally i'll just take a photo of that thing so today
i've come to the other end of the Malvern hills on the high point in the distance i did a video here
the other week but it was on the other side looking this way so this time i've
gone to the high peak but i don't really have a subject in mind obviously we've got
the Malvern hills that i'm standing on but i'm also looking for other things to photograph
it's a pretty clear day but we do have clouds coming in from the west i think there's another
front coming through the uk so i'm making the most of the good weather and the good light
there are clouds toward the east again and they're blocking that perfect sunrise
but i think we might get some sunlight around about nine o'clock i had a look on photopills
and the AR function to see when that light was going to be above the cloud line although looking
at it it looks like the clouds are coming this way i haven't planned any shots at all i haven't
planned any locations or anything like that i'm literally walking and seeing what i can find
i've got my a73 with the 85 millimeter on it today to see what i can get and i've also got a
35 millimeter and a 15 millimeter i probably should buy something like the 24 to 70 but
i've been trying to avoid doing that for now but who knows i'll probably end up getting one soon
now taking photos like this is okay but they can get quite boring
and there's a lot more opportunities about to get much more compelling photographs
so the wind has really picked up and it's howling from the west the cloud doesn't
look great for a sunrise but there's still some great shots here i've just taken this one i've
got this leading path running down and through as well as this thorny bush in the foreground
not the best shot in the world but i kind of like it oh yeah and i took it with a 17 to 28 i think
it was around about 24. when you're shooting with the 85 millimeter these benches work really well
what i like to do is drop it down to a wide aperture focus on the bench and then take a shot
now even though the sun hasn't come out there's still quite a haze in the air
and this is creating some nice layers we've got these three different peaks
and i've taken a photograph with the 85 and i've got part of the front peak
then i've got the mid peak and the back peak even though it's quite a simple shot i kind of like it
i spotted some trees on this first grassy knoll and then i've got one of the peaks
in the background so i've put the trees on that top thirds intersection and then i've
got the line of the hill coming through the shot what would probably work is if someone's to walk
around the corner on the path clouds just destroying any chance of any sunlight this
morning i've got a bit of a glow off the clouds and i've got a bit of a glow off the blue sky
but not much else but hey that's landscape photography sometimes you win and sometimes
you get beautiful sunlight and other times you don't but it's taking advantage of what you've
got in front of you and that camera is wobbling around like anything in this wind come on come on
so it's a little bit too cold to get anything else out of my bag i've kept with the 85 for now but i
really like this peak i like how the path goes up the peak i got a picture of a lady running
along in a blue top she really stood out nicely and i'm going to get another shot now as well
when the light is a little bit flat getting people in your frame can really
bring something else to your photographs if you look at these two shots the one on the
left looks a little bit empty whereas the one on the right looks much better
this tree looking down this path is quite interesting in that first shot i kind of
dirtied up the frame with this prickly bush in the foreground i don't know what it's called
again showing my ignorance but what i think will work is if i get closer shoot at f 1.8 and i make
a stitched image this will give that medium format look so i'll try that out i want this sweeping
path in the shot as well even though it's going to be out of focus i really like shots like this so
whenever you are doing any kind of pano stitched shots you just need to make sure there's lots of
overlap and you get more than you think that you need i've shot so many where there's one missing
there's a gap in the frame or anything like that it ruins the whole shot so as long as you shoot
wide enough as long as they overlap enough you will get a good shot i love doing that with the
85 especially you can get quite a wide shot and like i said you can fake that medium format look
this is why i need a zoom those bikers came past but because i had the 85 on it was too tight i
couldn't quite get a good shot of them if i'd have had a zoom i could have zoomed out got a shot of
them in the frame really quickly and they'd have been really close and it would have made a really
nice shot i am going to get them in the frame down the bottom but they're really far away now
missed it the more i go out and the more i take photos the more i'm thinking probably need to zoom
i've come the other side of these two trees now i'm going to get a
shot of them they look really windswept and really interesting and then with the peak
in the background with people on that peak looks really good
i think i might have missed the people but still looks really cool windswept tree
so all i'm doing really is just hunting around seeing what i can find
i don't have a subject in mind i don't have a specific shot in mind but there is lots of
photograph and again just fantastic being out now i'm gonna head home and grab a coffee my
mouth's stopping working because it's getting so cold so uh yeah it's about time to head off
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