good morning / good afternoon guys it's 2:00 in the afternoon and I thought well
on this photo workshop I'd kind of do a Dana life so let me show you what a day on a
travel photography workshop here and the lofoten isladns it looks like so since
times irrelevant it's breakfast time but we're just calling it meal one because
our meal schedule is so random we went to the grocery store and just bought
tons of random stuff and so we're having like salmon salami crazy amounts of
loafs of bread juice yogurt cheese and yeah it's a pretty cool spot to hang out
this is our Lodge I guess you would call it maybe there's five rooms and check
out this view I decided to base this group in the village of stamsun I
mean if you can't find inspiration sat with views like this you might never
find it and our spot for the week was less than an hour from basically any
location on the islands it was the perfect base
what time is it James?
2:00 p.m. but time doesn't matter here anymore here's what
I've noticed we are well we we've got what t-minus six hours to go until we go
and get some dinner and go shooting so I suppose she'll probably at the laptop
and start editing photos
okay it is 7:00 p.m. so naturally it's time for lunch I'm just gonna close up
our our apartment here and we're gonna cruise into town one of the things about
the love it's an island is it kind of drives me crazy is it such a great place
for like seafood you'd think or fish but there's no great restaurant so I think
we're getting pizza open up let me in thanks buddy
this is actually what happens on photo tours we don't go to photo locations we
all just stand around with smartphones taking photos of things like this I have
a rule on photography trips if you see something cool strange or whatever that
you want a photograph just shout out and we'll stop if we can so after stopping
at the strange car stuffed with blow-up dolls we cruised into leknes to
carb-load on some pizza for the long night of photography ahead
it's 10:00 p.m. and we've arrived at a soccer field in Hemmings far hemmings
VAR something like that and the reason we're at the soccer field isn't because
we're here to play some soccer / football it's because it looks like
there's the potential for a really cool drone shot from here this soccer field
is kind of like engraved within the landscape here and then actually town
looks pretty cool too so I think I'm gonna fly the drone and then maybe we'll
go hunt a photo when I was a kid our soccer field was right on this small
slope there was nothing worse than having to chase the ball if someone
booted it down the hill so I can't imagine what it was like here
someone get the kayak Lara's kicked the ball into the ocean again
so the crazy thing about these Midnight Sun workshops is this something doesn't
go down it kind of gets kind of close to the horizon but the Golden Hour starts
at 10:30 and goes until 3:30 so we're on these trips basically shooting photos
for like five hours which is crazy and when it's also crazy is how bad this Cod
smells right now
our group wandered around town for nearly an hour hunting for photos but
the light wasn't really cooperating overcast drizzle and midnight not
exactly the ideal situation for photography after an evening chasing
images in town James started pulling his weight and found us a crazy good
location just gone midnight and James is pulling his weight because he spotted
this awesome cabin with these weeds it looks like buttercup in front of it
and some really beautiful clouds on the peak there's no light the light went
totally flat on us but this is such a moody looking image I think this is
going to work really well so tripods out
so James just had a pretty good idea here he is doing what we can't think the
photographer's name but there's a wedding photographer or portrait
photographer that does this uses a long prime land it was our idea there's
nobody else that came up with this first it's James's idea
no anyway this portrait photographer uses a longer lens than you'd normally
do and then has the people posing and then shoots essentially like a giant
it's not a panel but a multi image a melty image image where they're just
taking one two three four five six seven just a ton of images at a really really
shallow depth of field and because it's telephoto din it just looks really
really soft all around and really dramatic massive sized image so I think
James is doing it over there I've stolen his idea that he came up with not some
other portrait photographer and I'm doing it here with a 24 to 70 @f 2.8
I've got manual everything manual white balance manual aperture shutter speed
ISO and focus and the focus is on this old awesome cabin and I'm just
essentially taking a photo and moving and then going up and doing another
photo and then moving up and then doing another row of photos and hopefully this
works cool and isn't just a massive waste of time the process of making this
photo is a bit tedious to say the least but the idea of a really soft looking
image of this cabin and the clouds really appealed to me the results
a35 image 180 mega pixel beast of an image that could be printed out and seen
from space
of course I actually prefer the simple one-shot image taken at 24 millimeters
complicated doesn't always mean better
just going one of them in the morning and on these trips you spend a lot of
time with the participants you spend a lot of time driving around location
scouting and you don't shoot as many photos as you normally would in this
case I was just driving back and forth up the road so James could get a photo
of the van I'm bucking forward again and then back and forth again and then again
because I'll focus more camera hopefully but yeah it's kind of like I think you'd
probably don't see what goes into it on the workshops a lot of times you're
modeling for participants or driving a car around for the participants to be in
shots so yeah I get my camera out and I shoot quite a bit but a lot of places
like this I just don't take pictures so we have like five hours of photography
and if I was shooting by myself I'd be shooting every single one of those hours
but instead I kind of just shoot the best one and then help people out at all
the other spots so yeah we're here it's 1:00 in the morning and this is
beautiful
we stopped to photograph a couple other spots on the evening but as I share the
end of this video I need to plug the trips I've got trips coming up with Jo
alum Morton hill more Thomas Heaton and James so if you want some info on these
trips check out the link in the description of the video so essentially
we've been out for like seven hours which is like a full full day and it has
only kind of felt like a couple hours we've just been having such a good time
and it's such a good group we're gonna be at it again tomorrow I think James
and me are maybe gonna do a photography challenge but I don't know what we're
gonna do maybe we'll pull a challenge from the
toque maybe we'll just pick something else out so that should be fun and it'll
be up the next time up videos up I guess I'll see you guys later peace
you