good morning it's a fine morning out here in the here and Lanzarote we've
just finished an awesome workshop with some great guys and I just come out to
have a little nose around and look and see what's happening we got some low
angled early morning light I thought I'd have a drive around and see what
interested me see if I can see some things that I think might make an
interesting shot and just share some little photo moments with you guys what
I'm just noticed is behind me you can see these little stone walls this is
where they keep the vines protected from the hot wind and I'm just looking into
the distance the way the light is moving and the clouds in the background and
there's a little house which I don't know if you can see in the video camera
is too small probably so if you see if I can pick it up for you and show you what
I'm looking at now here we go and I love the little house on the side
of a hill here let me just get this focused up and see if I can roll a bit
of video so you can see what it is that I'm looking at here we go look at that
over there in the distance with a little bit of green Bush down there and I think
if we come wider it probably won't work quite so well it gets a bit lost if we
get too many volcanoes and that sort of second house over there so to me I think
there's quite a nice little shot sneaking in here somewhere like this I
really kind of like that so let's just kill the video and take that shot see if
we can find another one do you see that just where is it there look we've got a
little lone palm against some cloudy sky no I'm not sure this is gonna work but
that's the key to all this kind of stuff you know if you see something try it
suck it and see see what happens it might work it might not I'm just sharing
some of those moments that I might have with you guys so you can see what I get
up to so for you it's very very small in the viewfinder let me see if I can get
in on it a little bit more let's get it focused up
the exposure a bit better there we go
okay so that's what I'm looking at there now how would it work by sneaking closer
it has possibilities but that sky is terribly dead isn't it so maybe it needs
stuff around it I quite like the light on the lava and I'd quite like that
Mound a volcano that's coming in sorry about the sound guys it's probably
really really lot of wind noise it's a windy place I've got the microphone
hidden inside my coat but anyway I'm thinking maybe something like that
because obviously I've got to avoid that little post here I might just go a
little bit closer just see line it up differently maybe from here what about
that bit of green in the corner you know all these things just play around with
them I think it's better kind of with half with just a hint of volcano and a
little bit of that green but you know what the light's not great and the sky
is really boring I'm going to take it then just see if I can do anything with
it but I'm not convinced and also I think the lights just come off it yeah
we've got a cloud up here we've got a cloud coming across the sky
look here we go that cloud is now just hiding the Sun so it's no longer
lighting up our little palm tree these are all other things you have to do is
to wait however there may be a shot here I think possibly with those volcanoes
and and that kind of cloud above it if i zoom in a bit somewhere around there
perhaps let's stop the video now and see if I can shoot that while we wait now
the lights coming back over there on the palm tree how long is it gonna last yeah
I'm going to shoot this one very quickly into the Sun and just see whether or not
I'll get a shot out of that maybe focus on the volcanoes that's alright it's
better than expected but it's not terribly exciting is it right now back
to the palm tree let's see what we can do
now we've got a little bit more light on it oh I like it we got some sparkles on
the rocks that's gonna help I'm gonna move this side because I want to avoid
those white posts and I'm actually gonna do it with the sparkles on the rocks I
like that I think the sky is too dead I think the grace kind of work would be
a case of waiting here until we get a blue one now there's a bit of light
happening over there on some volcanoes I'm just gonna see if I can move you
quickly and show you here we go now you see in the distance off over here
there's a little bit of light happening that's changing so fast I've actually
lost the light I wanted to show you let me just see if I can get something in
there because I quite like the sky even though the volcanoes are very kind of
misty and hazy in the distance but quite like that sky but I don't know that I
can capture it let's just try rotating the camera look at the light in the
foreground now but it's still a very boring dull shot it's it's not great and
of course we don't really want the road in there so I think I might just wait
for a moment I think I wonder to add a shot then I might just wait for a moment
and just see if the light comes back although there is a road shot now kind
of going on up that way I might try for that road shot than me under sail I'm
just gonna wobble you so you can see there we go if I get that way I think
you can see give me I'm looking in the monitor up there you see this volcano
here let's see if there's a shot in that with a road I think there's a road shot
here and I'm gonna take it very quickly because I think the lights gonna go this
changing light is really really great it's good stuff it's it's it's always
interesting I'm gonna drive up the road a little further I might even go in that
direction who knows it's all an adventure this one's gonna be a rush
look you see this little white house here that is where our lone palm tree is
let me quickly see if I can do anything with it because there's a
band of light going through it focus get some video on the scene look there is
our little house in the palm tree and the volcanoes look doesn't that look
lovely quick stop the video zoom in a little bit and shoot the picture I kind
of like that I really do now I shot that in a hurry because the lights changing
I'm just going to take another one slightly wider I think with a bit more
sky and include the two peaks I'm not shooting video for you because I need to
take it quickly that's better I think
when you look at the two the house up closer years not much to choose between
them I do kind of like it framed between the two bits of volcano with
that moody old bit of sky going on above it it's good stuff isn't it
chasing light that's what we're doing we're chasing like we're seeing things
then having to move quickly you know and also is a little thing low I'm just
dispelling the myth that you've got to shoot landscapes with the wide-angle
lens I'm just shooting them with whatever lens I need to get the blooming
picture that I want and most of these have been quite a lot longer than wide
I'm just watching the light watching it change I think I really quite like the
volcano to the left I'm just gonna another go at that because we've got
some lovely moody look at that light over there look at that with the little
house in the bottom and the volcano to the left so stop the video and I'm get
used to Dave's back button focusing right seeing within a bit nurse if we
can get that shots not gonna be the same it's the one you just saw in the video
but the light is great the way it's just sweeping across onto the volcano and
lighting up the little house days like this brilliant when you've got puffy
clouds you got moody clouds you've got gaps in the clouds got blue holes
going on if you don't seven building blocks of photography
know all about blue holes and how to utilize them but things like this the
gray Lanzarote is a brilliant place to do it so you really need to come join me
on the workshop don't you at some point right let's go see if we can find
another feature so it's been raining and it's clouded over quite a lot as you can
see so I'm just sitting in my little higher car and you're waiting to see if
the light changes I'm just outside there you go the other way and that in itself
looks really kind of nice against that sky if we got a shaft of light on it I
think it would be absolutely awesome but also out of this window behind me I
think you can see we got this little shelter there's little shaft of light at
the moment looks just touching the top of one of the volcanoes there when this
little piece of green is in here I'm just gonna sit and wait for a little
while and just see if the light comes through because if the light comes
through underneath there I think it's gonna look absolutely spectacular this
is one of our regular workshop stops but of course it's always changing you know
light changes things move it's always changing so I'm just gonna sit here for
a little while and see what happens okay so it's not raining and I thought I'd
better get out the car because right behind you look can you see the light
just suddenly come up there right if I just roll some video
look there's the video camera look what's going on up here we've got a
great big blue hole there's the Sun which is now shining on me and that's
going to put light look there it is and across the vines going off into the
distance we got that awesome bit of light look and it's sweeping across the
land there's another piece did you see that just comes sneaking in that's
exciting right so let's get some shots because we've now got light on our
little foreground house make sure more exposure is good I'd kind of like that
let's just lifting out little hint of green in the bottom and shoot it
now I'm just gonna wait for a little moment or two and just see what I really
want is light on the volcanoes in the distance but I kind of like in my head
would be some little bit of foreground light here a bit of light on these walls
on the on the black sand on the lava but I want the volcanoes in the distance to
light up now they're gonna light up in a moment as this light sweeps across and
hopefully we'll get some clouds above so the lights coming in underneath the
clouds that should be pretty interesting here we go we got a little sandwich
going on of light right now let's just focus and just take that shot like that
that's more like just come through take another one see how this is changing now
we've got some light on the little little shelter there let's just shoot
that one because we've got some awesome foreground light going on on the little
you know wind breaks there let's just stand here and look at it just just for
a moment or two because it's the light on those distant volcanoes you can see
there's a little bit way off if i zoom in a bit you can see this and little
patches of light up there on those volcanoes right at the very top right up
there but what I want is a bigger patch of light I want a bigger piece of like
to really light up this kind of curly volcano because I think it'll make a
really cool shot and you guys we zoom back out it's looking pretty good now
see how the little shelters just lost the light on that I might move to the
left just a tiny bit because I think we're gonna get a better nut
alignment I kind of want to close the gap between this shelter and this
volcano here so we're gonna move this way a little bit it's a windy old place
you can see why they need these shelters to protect their vines from just drying
out in the hot wind remember we're just off the coast of the Sahara Desert here
even though it's a Spanish island nice light on the shelter now let's have a
look at this shot oK we've kind of got a bit of a leading
line coming in here now from this wall down here but I'm not so sure I like it
I think the leading line might be just a little bit annoying I think we're
probably gonna move back to the earlier position because I think it works just a
bit better
wow that's windy I do hope it doesn't blow the tripod over I'm going to pause
the video and come back if the lights happened the way I want it to I've seen
a minute we just had the most enormous blast of wind came through it took the
camera the video camera on the tripod out I just had to move the car to act as
a windbreak we've got a little bit of light going on here my camera bag has
got a load of gravel and grit in it there was such a blast of wind it's not
true but we've almost got the light I think for the shot that I want to take
there we go look here we go let's just focus up here and but why did it quick
shoot my shot where we got the light that is looking really cool that's just
the sort of thing I want you see how those mountains in the distance a lit up
and we got that band of light running across I'm just shooting a few frames as
it happens because it's always changing but we've got light on those distant
volcanoes we got that blue hole in the sky and I kind of thing
anyway I'm gonna get out of this wave it's really really rough
as ever it's blowing a gale up here we're on the side of a mountain I had to
kind of abandoned shooting for most of the day because it became so windy and
rainy and the light became really really bad but it looks like we've got some
nice light now possibly for a sunset so I've come up into the mountains of
mahalia where they still grow the vines and I think it's a beautiful place now
you don't know if you don't go this may not let me see if I can show you what
I'm kind of thinking a bit of video here look but kind of looking across you know
these little hollows where they grow the vines up to the Sun which is kind of
producing a few rays as it is and glinting on the ocean in the distance I
got a little highlight up there on top of that hill now I'm hoping we're gonna
get some of those highlights coming towards me and lighting up these little
hollows in the ground so now it's just a case of waiting I have shot quite a few
test shots to try and find the place that I think I want to shoot from I may
run around a bit as it happens if it happens who knows and take a few shots
from a couple of different places a couple of these so as the light gets
lower hopefully we'll get some good shots
so it's kind of as I fear this bank of low-lying cloud has come in and it's
completely obliterated the Sun so the light that I was hoping for coming up
here and really sort of putting some texture into the valley it didn't
actually happen but hey if you don't go you don't know you know but I think
we've got some really quite nice shots anyway looking back over them as the Sun
has come down the actual set low on the horizon it's gone the low-lying clouds
killed it so I hope you've enjoyed this little
tour around the stunning little island of Lanzarote and I hate you found my
thoughts and insights and some of the things I found interesting to shoot have
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sunset has died I've brightened up the video camera and you can see
everything's gone really flat and dull anyway take care of yourselves guys and
I look forward to seeing you next time and who knows maybe you'll come join me
and Lanzarote sometime take care