Hello and welcome to another day of landscape photography for a rare
occasion for me I have today come out for a sunrise it's one of those days when I
didn't have any other time to shoot this week I've had a busy week up to now I've
got a family thing this weekend it's Friday morning now I've got to edit the
video this afternoon to get it out to you Sunday afternoon so it's really the
only day I have so because of that I had absolutely no choice with the weather
and the forecast for this morning was dreadful absolutely dreadful rain cloud
nothing at all but actually there was a little bit of colour in the sky when it
came to sunrise. I haven't really made the most of that because I couldn't
quite find the composition that I was looking for so what I've decided to do
today is really just focus down on some very simple beautiful long exposure
photography, and the beach which I'm at today with some 270 degree views is
absolutely beautiful and there's lots of rocks to provide that solid contrast
against the moving water and that's what I'm gonna go for today so I've got the
tide coming in on me a little bit but I'm already set up for my first shot of
the day I've got the camera set up here and I've got the Canon 70-200 mm
lens on and focused in on these two rocks just in the sea here I've got them
at the two bottom cross-sections of the rule of thirds and then I've got the
horizon going across the top rule of thirds and it's just a really
straightforward simple but beautiful composition. Long exposure wise I'm going
for about six seconds with no filters on I'm just making the most of these dim
conditions that I've got at the moment and I'm at f/16 I don't need to be at
f/16 in terms of the depth of field but I want to just extend that exposure time
a little bit and that's what f/16 is allowing me to do. I'm an ISO 100 shutter
speed of 6 seconds, no filters and then I'm just waiting for the sea to
crash over the rocks a little bit get that right wave which is coming now
get that wave crashing over the rocks to create that beautiful ethereal feel
to this image. The sky has a kind of blue tinge to it at the
moment as well which is going to really add to the feeling of that image not
everybody's cup of tea but I absolutely love long exposure photographs like this
just simple beautiful and tell a really nice story of the mood here this morning
today I'm just gonna have a little explore around for a couple of hours
because that's the only time I have this morning see what long exposure shots I
can capture and I also want to talk to you a little bit about storytelling with
photography
so I wanted to talk to you about storytelling
the reason I've sort of been thinking about it over the last week or so is
because I read an article about photography and about storytelling but
halfway through the article I stopped reading it when it said that you cannot
tell a story with landscape photography and I couldn't disagree with that more
the point of the article is making is that a story has a beginning, a middle
and an end. With photography if you want to have that the argument was that
you need to create movement in a photograph
so essentially you need someone in the scene who's moving or car moving or
something like that that was the argument of the story and I just don't
think the photographer in this who was writing this article sort of understood
landscape photography like we do. How can you not see an image of an amazing
beautiful tree in a forest surrounded by the mist and not think that there's a
story there. Not understand what that story is
or my shot that I took of the lighthouse at Flamborough that's not far from here
that was in the middle of a lightning storm and you could see the storm clouds
above with the lighthouse they're casting that beam and I think it told a
brilliant story. I'd be really interested to hear your comments down below about
storytelling do you think landscape photography can tell a story I think I
know the answer for many of you but leave your opinion leave your comments
down below and let me know I'm really interested in it's something that I'd
like to explore a little bit more. Right let's go and make the most of this
surprisingly nice morning I want to capture some of that light and the bit
of colour that we do have in the sky.
Right second shot of the day after that I have the camera a bit lower down this
time just with some of these seaweed covered rocks in the foreground I want
to get this cliff in a shot so that is sort of leading me in from the
right-hand side of the frame and then I've got the sort of sea stack which you
might be able to see behind me there just rising up out of the water and then
the tiny bit of colour that is in the sky I wanted to capture that as well so
that's the basis of this shot it is by no means a great shot it's just that's
the beauty of days like this really is because I've come out this morning with
zero expectations, absolutely zero so I want to just capture a few images and
I'm not being too critical of myself so I'm really just making the most of the
day. Anyway, composition wise apart from the cliffs and the rocks I'm also using
a long exposure to capture this water as it kind of bubbles up and foams as it
breaks over these rocks and I want to have that in the foreground of my image
smoothed out a little bit just creating that nice white contrast against these
dark black rocks and I think that's gonna look great in the foreground of
the image. With the first shot I didn't use any filters whatsoever with
this one I have a six stop B&W, because a lot of you keep asking me which ND
filters I'm using, B&W ND filter 6-stop ND filter because i then have the bright
sky as well i'm then bracketing so I'm at an exposure between sort of one
second and about twenty seconds to get this three shot bracketed long exposure
image and that's what you can do a lot of people have been asking me how do you
do a long exposure when you don't use nd grads and sometimes I will bracket the
long exposures with the six stop just as I'm doing here to really make the most
of these sunrise conditions this morning I'm at ISO 100 I'm at f/16, like I said
not the best image in the world but pretty decent. You can't deny this is
a beautiful place
Okay last shot of the day. Camera's on the tripod very very simple composition I'm
not going for anything particularly complicated or special just nice and
simple I've got the light coming across the scene and lighting these rocks in
the foreground on the beach and then they're just leading you up into these
rocks sort of in the sea here with this sea nicely smoothed out with a few of
the reflections of the intermittent sunlight on there. This time I'm going
for an extreme long exposure I've got two ND filters on there now, the 10-stop
and the 6-stop, they're stacked into 16-stops of light reduction so at
f/8, ISO 200 I have a six minute exposure. I won't ever go beyond six minutes
because some strange things can start to happen when you expose for that long. It's now
starting to rain ,unfortunately, I'm going to close my bag up.
That's the way it is with
landscape photography it was forecast to be raining today so it'll be interesting
to see how this image turns out but another superb day of landscape
photography a few things I wanted to discuss and then just a little scouting
mission at this absolutely beautiful beach in North Yorkshire again. The sense
of well-being again!! I haven't talked about it for a while I've got out early I hate
getting out of bed early I've got young kids I'm awake a lot in the night so
anything before six o'clock I find really difficult but today it's been
good reward, the weather conditions and lighting hasn't been great but it's
still been a really really nice day and a good reward some fresh air to start
the day.
If you have not subscribed yet please do so and I'd love to hear what
you think about landscape photography telling stories in the comments
down below. I'll see you on another video very very soon though I'm Adam this is
First Man Photography in beautiful North Yorkshire
Out!!!