welcome back everybody thanks so much for joining me today we're going to be
not in here at all so I'm going to show you how to assess a scene when you are
in it and pick the best places to do pictures I hope that you leave this
video with the skill to be able to look at and assess a shoot location and
work out what it is you want to be shooting and also I'm hoping that you
can kind of almost envision the final image as well because that will improve
you as a photographer no end no end at all you haven't already please do press
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week and sometimes more than that if I feel like it and if I have a time so
this shoot the purpose of it essentially was to get me out of the house because
I've been in since like March and then to also get some pictures for some nice
wall art and then finally the last thing that we wanted to do it was also to test
out one of my new lenses what we did was we went to a location which I'm going to
pick up as soon as we jump into that with a little bit more of an
introduction as to where we are I asked on social media whether you guys wanted
to see the behind the scenes of this particular shoot and you guys
overwhelmingly said yes you also said that you wanted to see straight out of
camera as well as the final edits which is fine so I've included those in here
as well three things about this video realistically that I need you to know
first of all squeaky ball warning so if you've got a pet that is interested in
squeakys or gets a bit too overexcited there will be squeakys in this video I
have tried to keep them to a minimum but they exist and I can't cut them out so
squeaky toy a warning number two is that my dogs are very well trained they are
very very well trained especially alpha for photography as you guys well know so
where I've positioned him and then left him waiting there for ages that's not
realistic for the vast majority of dogs so if you need to there is out to no
reason why it why literally any of the pictures
that you can see in this video today can't be done with the dog on a lead
there is literally just there's all of them can be done with the dog on a lead
you could have an owner or helper holding the lead you know out to one
side all you could tether the dog as long as the you know that tellers out
the way and it's quite easy to look at make sure safety first so if there
is a situation like the big log that we use in this video don't don't ask an
owner or a dog to be on the log if it's not safe
think what is the worst thing that could happen in this situation and then shoot
for that not don't shoot oh well that will probably never happen because
probably well if you've said that oh editing just reading my notes that the
Edit the editing that I've done on these images is quite heavy it's heavy editing
take that's because they were for a complete set of wall pieces so they all
work together and they suit where they're going to live so yeah so just if
you are wondering what the point was of that then that's the point of that I
juiced included the final edits just so that you guys can see where I was going
with it it's not there to say this is how it should do that and as you all
know from the style interviews which I will link above that's important I
really appreciate audience participation mainly here in the YouTube comments but
also on Instagram and on Facebook so if you're not there be there I think that's
it enjoy the video we're in the woods with Alfie and Pippi down good girl
we've got Pippi and we've got Alfie we're in North Yorkshire in a wood and
the light is changing from cloud to sun to cloud so we're not probably going to
record the whole thing because we keep having to stop and wait but what I'm
hopefully gonna show you today is how I look at a scene and how I look at a
location and work out where to be where to put the subject if we can you know
control the subject and just the general things I'm looking forward to get a good
picture I've got with me both the 2470 and the 7200 Sony G master lenses so I
will switch if I need to in terms of the environment but for the most part I'm
hoping to keep this 7200 on and the vast majority is gonna be a 2.8 not
any higher than that and the first location for us is this
log pistol hug which I'm hoping that you can
see so I have already shot on the log because like I said the lights a bit of
a pain but we'll probably put out back on the log so that I can show you so if
you come to my height ready wheres the ball
release okay so hello hey you come here little grass eater thank you
and one thing I am just going to do really quick is just do a quick white
balance check the links to this is in the description below everybody knows
that I love using these if I'm gonna do a quick white balance check of my log
area the light is gonna change good puppy so it's not going to be perfect
but just like it's a general representation we'll just get a quick
picture that's a nice portrait waiting
can you walk to that side try and get to my level waiting
someone proud wow squeaks and we'll go and explore the forest a little
bit more I found a stump is again really bright
light so we'll talk through it now because when it's soft then I will shoot
the stump obviously has got tree right behind so you won't shoot straight at
the stump from where I'm stood now because there's that tree but if you angle
yourself slightly to one side over this little beck from here you've got kind of
a clear path behind so it'll be a bit softer so shoot there like that when the
light is soft so just FYI this light is too harsh
so if Alfie Alfie come go hop up if Alf's on there although his face is in
the shade your exposure would have to be so low that everything behind him in the
bright sunlight would completely blow out so he's seeing some walkers I hope
he's not going to go jump up at them wait just that's something to bear my so
make sure that the background is completely clear and then also make sure
that the light is soft enough good boy so we wait for the lights change and then
we'll shoot and then we'll go find somewhere else
can you put them up wow this way good back up wait wait take that out from
sticking up for your bum good stand yeah wait wait wait
whilst I make sure I get the shot waiting wait
ready beautiful ginger so framing it with this big stumpy thing whatever it is
good girl Wow
hmm my hair's my hair ooh and hopefully we can see that we've got lots of
different types of woodland so we've got really deep coniferous woodland and then
we've got open deciduous woodland on the left that gives us completely different
types of shots it is tick country we've already got
a tick on Pippi's eye which is not ideal but I'm constantly looking into the
scenery for scenes so I'm imagining that my eyes are 200 mil which is hard because
the more like 50ml on a full frame and what I'm looking at I'm looking really
deep and trying to see if his lines shapes good boy puppy looking for
logs looking for layers in the backgrounds and you're just seeing
really if there's anything that we can use to make a good shot so what I'm not
looking for is something like this track that were about to come down on to
before this shoot today because it's too open really it's a bit boring for what
I'm actually going for but what we can do we can look a bit further so if we
look down here it is nice let's go down here so this is a beautiful resource for
that we've got you know not on our doorstep but within an hour an hour's
drive so now that we can go out more without lockdown it's worth it's
coming I can see that we've got like a wigwam someone's built in the tree Alfie
get out of the water we've got lots of different streams coming down into
this little river which is down there so we're gonna go down there Alfie's gonna
try not to get soaked but he will this is so nice you know I've stayed here on
holiday and I've never been down here right let's go and see whether we can
put him in the ward that's deeper than my boots are waterproof up there hope
that track at the other side
so we're gonna find a shot I had to take off my mic and everything off so we
haven't recorded it because I was in the water and it's too risky so what we're
gonna do is there's like a little stump in the middle this clearing so we're
gonna put him on the top of the stump and to just shoot through because it's
nice background so we've got lighter green darker green more trees less trees
theoretically so I'm probably gonna do that one in that one so do you want to
come around so you can see the background I'm shooting portrait at the
moment because get more of the scenery and so if we shoot from this direction
so we've got a completely open background with a few little spots of
color because there's the what over the pink flowers are maybe rhododendrons
we're not quite sure and then if we were going to this direction so back from
where you are now you've got this little oak sapling and then a lot darker
background come here this side this side this side this side good boy steady can
you do fronts good wait good who's a panty bear beautiful a little mythical
woodland creature you're a creature all right that's something that my daddy
would say so I'm just gonna put this fern waiting buddy I'm just gonna put
this little fern plant in the shot really close to the lens and then
that'll give us them essentially green vignette and I just frame his head through a gap
and it's either going to work or it's not
okay good boy good little elephant I'm melting it's really humid
I think they'll won't be able to hear you down but what you said was mean
Alfie come fronts so what I'm doing is okay we sitting on it okay comes down
good boy so what we're doing is framing with this tree here and then
that tree there not too bothered about the bits behind but you wouldn't want one of
those trees coming out of his head because that would be bad waiting so
this time I'm gonna see if I can get through to this little fern plant might
be too low to be honest beautiful so we've got real bright light behind so
we're gonna have to do a bit of work on that but going to shoot a couple Wow good boy and I'm just
reeling off a few shots and refocusing between them just to make sure that I
don't miss the shot okay
light headed stood up too (inaudible dog talk) that's it I'll
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