hey this is Scott of Photography Banzai. Here today with some beautiful weather.
There's a lot of fog, which is nice with the snow because it sticks to the trees.
I have the Viltrox 56 millimeter f/1.4, Canon EOS M50... Let's see what I can get. I'm going
to use aperture priority probably just for ease of use especially with gloves. Take
a look at one of these trees. Here you can see how it's coming off...
sticking to it. So that's really interesting.
Start with f/2.8...
This is a really nice tree here.
So we've got the white backdrop plus the white covered plants.. trees.
Definitely a interesting combination. See how close I should get here.
Wow that's so nice. It's really neat!
Let's take a look here.
So looking at the histogram...
It seems okay.
This one is really peaking my interest.
There's a big highway over here. Makes a lot of noise. Sorry if it's in the video, but...
Just really really something!
These are really interesting. You can see that the wind is blowing a certain direction,
so you've got one side covered. The other side that isn't covered. So I'm just trying to get
this main subject this including the frame and not that, you know, in a bad position.
Trying to use touch to focus in the situation with these gloves doesn't really work well.
But tapping once kind of works okay.
This snow is definitely a good workout because you're kind of crunching from
the the top portion is really pretty firm, so it's like.. crunch.. crunch...
Hah.. yeah..
See if we can find any thing interesting.
Oh yeah, that area over there it's really nice. See if I can get over there.
My goal there was trying to get a car coming this direction.
Right in a good position on that bridge, see how it worked out. Let's look around here.
The snow is nice because it acts as a good reflector.
So you get an added benefit.
This would definitely not be a spot you could walk around in in the summer.
Oh, there are nice!
This is interesting...
Just got into a spiky situation.
Fill the entire frame with this...
I haven't been way over there, we could check that out. Oh, this is interesting. Some blue coming in.
This one almost looks like the infrared photos where they removed the filter
from the camera. You know, you get the heat sources. Definitely.. definitely.. that.
It's every little spot. I like how these branches here are coming together and there's an open area.
Get an idea see that.
Now it's getting a little bit bluer. A lot bluer!
So here I'm going to use the viewfinder to help me decide what I want the photo to look like.
So I have an idea in my head based on what I see, but
getting to the right position is the.. the goal.
Might have to do a vertical.
I'm going to try this road up here. There are a lot of nice trees with that covering on them, but
accessing them is the problem, the difficulty.
Here's a nice angle!
With this fog it's difficult to focus on infinity. I could.. I could obviously adjust the camera
manually, but focus on something that I can and then just move the
camera when you're half pressed. Let's see what this is. Big open field.
Tires...
Fallen trees... Wow this is interesting!
Hah, it's like a landscape from some crazy movie.
I'm guessing it's a farmer's field or something.
Somehow.. some way.. I'm gonna go into manual focus.
And figure out which direction
I need to go. So counter clockwise is close. We're gonna go clockwise all the way. Wow this is weird!
Just a lack of noise compared to that road over there in this, super calming.
Oh, it's brightening up. You can see the hill line.
Corn fields with fog and snow. It's just something super special.
Takes some effort to get through that snow. I'm not looking for anything specific. I'm
just going around trying to find anything that peaks my interest in that instant.
Usually just a lot of snow, you know, the density of it. Some trees just don't have a lot of it on
there, but other ones are filled. And the position of different trees or plants in the photo...
Never been back here. It's interesting there's a full path so it must be still
part of the park. I think at one point whoever had this place, it was a private residence...
maybe a farm, who knows. But then they donated it, which was nice and we've got a park.
It's like a marsh or a bog or something. Whatever you would call it in Illinois. I'm not sure.
Interesting conditions. If you do notice your area has some fog, and it's.. you know.. below freezing
or near freezing and then it gets colder... As long as it's safe to drive and check it out.
Take your camera, you know, and see what is around your area. I think it's definitely worth it. It's
beautiful. You see the really strong full like one color if you want to call white a color. And.. I
don't know.. that whole winter wonderland look to it that everyone likes to call it. But it is nice!
Yeah, anyways I'm Scott of Photography Banzai. I hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks!