There is one technique that will get you more Keepers when the light is low or when you're
struggling with your settings I'll show you it a little bit later on yeah it's getting
cold already [Music]
[Music] now what I'm looking for is a tree that stands out I think I'm following the
path but I'm not 100 sure
I think I might have one here so this is what I'm looking at got these two trees we've got
the fog rolling in and we've got this iced over Lake in the background with the dusting
of snow I'm thinking this one and that one with the haze between it gives a bit of Separation
but by separation I just mean they look further apart so it makes your subject stand out
and right on cue fog just lifts a little bit
foreign [Music] [Applause]
you just want to change perspective and one way to do this is just to get low it just
changes the position of the Horizon compared to your subject [Music] I'm trying to get
this tree with a darker background it's really tricky and then the sky is so white that it
just Blends into that Sky although there is another little tree right next to it that
could make for a good subject [Music]
now while I'm waiting for that fog to roll in I'll tell you a little bit about this technique
that I use to get more keeper shots especially when that light's low it's basically a really
simple one but the purest out there will probably think that I'm a bit of a lazy photographer
I'll put my hand up I am a little bit of a lazy photographer anything that makes my job
easier taking photographs that work I'm all for it basically what you do is put your camera
in drive mode and then fire off a lot of shots
the problem with lower shutter speeds is that you might be taking a shot but the actual
motion of you pressing the button will add some motion into the camera if you have it
in drive mode you'll press it and some of those shots in the middle your finger's not
going to be moving your hands aren't going to be moving and you'll just stabilize and
I've found this is a really good way to get some shots like this unlike this and like
this if you don't want to get your tripod out or you don't think it's that good a photograph
you can still fire off five or six shots and chances are one of them will be pin sharp
and in Focus perfectly oh come on fog come on it's not doing it [Music] now to keep making
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now another reason why you might want to use this technique of putting it in drive mode
instead of getting your camera on a tripod it's because it just saves time you might
only have a few hours at that location or you might be walking with your family if you've
got it in drive mode there's not much light about you can fire off a load of shots one
of them will be okay while I was driving to this location I did spot a few really interesting
trees that also were covered in this Frost and in this situation this is when I really
use this drive mode technique I don't have to get my tripod out if I'm blocking someone's
drive or anything like that the fire off loader shot jumped back in the car and you'll be
away before you get in anyone's way now because that fog Has Lifted there's not as much separation
but I think I've spotted a composition but it's a bit further down the road so I'm going
to keep an eye on the traffic and see what I can get [Music]
gets a bit dangerous when you're shooting like that made it I'm not sure if that shot
worked but we'll see later on
now I've found a shop that I really like here but I want to shoot at f8 I'm at 200 millimeters
and at f8 at ISO 100 I've got 100th of a second now I could raise the iso to get that shutter
speed up to 1 200th of a second or faster following that shutter speed focal length
rule but I might not want to do that I might want to keep the iso at 100.
if you want to do that just put it in drive mode so I'm in drive mode and then
I'm gonna fire off a load of shots and I know one of those will be okay [Music]
so because that fog's not coming back in I'm going to get Separation by using a shallower
depth of focus I'll put the 85 on which goes to 1.8 I'm going to try and bring this tree
out from the background by blurring that background quite a bit foreign
[Music] so if you are struggling in low light conditions or you're noticing that a lot of
your shots are blurred try this technique you never know you might get some absolutely
amazing shots with really really low shutter speeds and you'll be surprised at what you
can actually get so it doesn't look like that fog's coming back in anytime soon probably
missed it and I probably got here a little bit late I've got one or two shots that I
like though but when the conditions are like this I find it really hard to go home when
I probably should do