it's 5:00 in the morning and the last morning in Africa let's go take some
pictures good morning how is it okay okay okay I'm waking up. Greg's with me
over here somewhere behind me and it's not their last day in Africa they've got
a couple a little bit more time so be sure to go check out Greg's channel see
what he's up to and yeah I really wanted to take some
pictures here at hermanus I've been here now three times and I haven't taken a
single picture of anything that's not a whale or dolphin so there's some
seascapes / landscapes
up here we're hoping that we can find
and hopefully we get some light there's clouds which look beautiful if we can
get some sunlight punching through at sunrise it could be epic and hopefully I
didn't just give that the BVS curse
so the place that we came to shoot it says black oyster nesting area and this
says do not enter so we have two options we can either shoot from up top here or
we can cruise down there's some crazy waves splashing up farther down but this
law this location is really cool the reason I wanted to shoot this was
because the water comes up like this and then when it recedes you get this
waterfall coming down that I think would look awesome so I really want to shoot
this I don't know we might just shoot from up here when you stand right here
the wave is the way they come in they come in and then they bounce off the
rocks and then they can kind of jump right at this exact spot you need to
stand so I don't know I love this spot from my eye there's all sorts of stuff
to shoot I just don't want to get hit by a wave so I think well I'm gonna set up
the gear anyway risk it I think
so have them braved the spot down at the bottom where the waves were crashing yet
I'm up here at the top kind of shooting across and there's a vendor a local
vendor who's just kind of gone out to enjoy the sunrise out on the rocks as
well and he's making the perfect big landscape little person model out there
so I don't even need Greg to go out there and pose which is awesome the
light looks really really beautiful free sunrise I'm just really simple with my
camera this morning it's just 16 to 35 f11 ISO 400 because I
want to shutter speed of about one second to get this falling water and to
keep some of the drama in the scene and yeah the light looks beautiful
there's lots of color in the water there's some light coming in the sky
right now and yeah I'm so happy with this
I said Africa it's pretty far south wasn't expecting that okay so the camera
is set up in a new way on a new shot and actually exactly what everything floor
just happened that always happens with your filming basically I'm going for a
composition that has a little bit of this rough wild sea here in the
foreground and then the calm sea in the background with the mountains but we're
not getting a whole lot of color this morning in the sky so it's making it
harder luckily there's lots of color in this crazy water here it's coming out
really blue and that's where I think it's really important to nail your
exposure on the water if you over expose your water it's going to look all white
and washed out and then at the end of the day it's just timing is everything
I'm waiting for a huge wave to come in smash up over the rocks and then retreat
giving me these waterfalls
so you can see the sun's coming through back that way it for a minute gives sun
rays but I wasn't at my camera I really wanted to do like a 30-second exposure
really simplified with the water totally flat and then the sun rays coming
through but I think I've missed that moment it's still shooting now I think
it'll still probably look good as a minimalist photo but missed that perfect
moment and overall I think Greg and I are done shooting here so maybe time to
pack up
et go home the painting yeah and my god are you sure why Iceland so
we have said goodbye to Greg and Nellie and we're about to say goodbye to South
Africa we've got about a two-hour drive to the airport
so excited to go see binky Amonte I'm just excited for mincemeat pies
it's about 911 or time it's about seven o'clock we're at the airport
our flight scheduled to leave at midnight I've been up since 4:00 in the
morning and we just learned that it's too late
about two and a half three hours so it's gonna be about a 24 hour shift before we
get on this flight but we're gonna try to check-in hopefully and get through
security and maybe find a corner to sleep in
made it through security pretty quick but we still have like I guess three or
four hours until the flight takes off because it's so late
man this delay is killing me I woke up at about 4:15 this morning
and it's now I don't know two in the morning
the lounge is shutting down I think we get the board the flight in about 20
minutes so I'm gonna wander to the gate
last minute wildlife photography
okay finally finally finally but to board it's now 4:15 in the morning which
means I pulled with 24-hour shift and I'm ready to sleep twelve hour flight to
London ending the vlog right now I'll see you guys from the UK peace
you