hope you like how I work specially for you but it is cold here now there's a
popular myth that you need to use a wide angle lens to shoot landscapes and isn't
necessarily true because you get a great effect with a long lens so I just want
to show you kind of what I'm thinking and how by changing lenses in moving
your body just very very slightly will have a big impact on your composition and
composition is really important we got a very dull grey day here so we're in
Iceland Iceland workshop the guys are down there just having a chatting and
filter change so I thought I just use this opportunity to tell you some stuff
now obviously over here we've got mountains with snow we got a grey day
said composition is gonna be really important we got lots of grey I like
these gray rocks down here and we got these remains at his old wooden boat up
against him so he got ground ground ground grey with little hints of this
sort of almost great goals for the grass is going on down here so what's going on
in my mind the composition I'm thinking of is boat in the foreground with rocks
and then mountains grey sky grey water rocks going on going on into the
distance so if I put my lens onto 24 millimetres let's 24 mill shot and get
fairly close shave the difference the same shot with a longer lens so it's
fine my composition I want this pointy wood at the top
here
I want to line up against the water so that it makes the prow of the boat
really stand out as opposed to being lost amongst the gray so like bend the
knees let's find the place where I need to be at 24 mil quite close close
here there we go look closer
make intimate you know widely is a great for making things intimate and close
here we go so Im gonna focus on the boat itself it's not far away the field is
good for maximum depth of field I just gonna run to about how f-16 something
like that
need to make sure my shutter speeds fast enough so im gonna push my ISO higher about 400
ISO see we've got with the shop composed at giving the fiftieth of a second with
24 mil lens we should be absolutely fine no camera shake focus on
the boat we got front-to-back sharpness with a wide angle shot let's just put
the longer lens on and see what that does for the composition for the feeling
in the mood in the shot I'll be back in a tick when i change lenses
long lens on when he will she takes her shot ok so much the same composition as
we have before so just check what I had something like that what's going to
happen I want to bring those mountains over there a little closer in behind the
boat and I'm also thinking I want to really isolate the boat and t he stone and we're gonna i wana
bring that human element into the shot you know the sort of like the ruin of
somebody's life with their boat and the stones that it'll can and and kind of
the roughness of nature but I really want the focus of the shot to be the boat
in the human element so how we going to achieve that have little think this is
all part of that composition well I needed by having a shallow depth of
field I'm using the full frame with 2.8 lens so I'm gonna actually take my lens
wide open
do everything we say you shouldn't do in landscape but it shouldn't it's a rule
is it real or is it not really you can do whatever you want to create what you
want to my vision needs a wide aperture so 2.8
let just find where my composition gonna work area on shooting she's not going to be any belongings on their way to a bend
my knees still don't have little point in the battle going above the horizon
that's nice that's nice I want the mountain off to the right and the rocks
in the foreground that's pretty cool of that just kinda works but you see just how by
absolutely focusing on the timber work of the boat that plan made human
element absolutely so the smacks in amongst the natural stuffby using a
shallow depth of field and a longer lens we brought the peaks in the distance in
closer and I'm not saying either one of these shots is right or wrong
whichever you prefer is whichever you prefer personal preference it's almost a
portrait photography techniques to bring bouquet into landscape gives a really
interesting looking it's all part of the composition game because you're
composing a picture speaking of which that little spiky bit it one last thing over here have a
little look at how we can change the composition and how important it is to
look at aspects of the composition
gonna go for my shallow depth of the failed again F 2.8 left to right now I'm gonna be
shortening the length of it and I don't need such a small aperture so I got more
like coming in my ISO back down remember guys push things up and down all the
time I so high ISO lower absolute great also gonna be ready for the
opportunistic shot ok what I'm thinking now is a straight-on shot the bow of the
boat with some rocks in the foreground the beach on the other side in the scree
slope of the mountain with a little bit of ice and snow coming down is a great
shot even though we haven't got any strong light is still gonna work how we
do it from the camera that way up this breaks and landscape rules as called
landscape format portrait or landscape in portrait as just come up on the
front of the boat I dunno
70 millimetres only use the front of the boat
to be sharp so let's see where I need to be shut a speech at 6:42 500 on separate
email so we should be fine line in order to get the bug smack in the middle and
my frame going up and down there we go now if I shoot this from here at the beach
lined up it's like having those mountain peaks the boat really really sharp you
see how that little point apiece on top of the boat is now colliding with the
line of the stones on the beach is not quite so good I want separation there is
really important to study you composition really really look at your
pictures do in the viewfinder also check it in the LCD how am I gonna move that I
want to put the beach higher it's really really simple change the composition
just by moving forward that sort of gonna move forward fraction of a phase
inches just stretch a bit taller line it all up make sure everything straight I
have the good display on in my view finder so it can make sure everything
straight and nicely lined up when I shoot it there we go
I just climbed to look higher slightly fewer rocks in the foreground and i got that separation
at the top between the little piece of wood on top of the boat on the beach on
the other side
composition is really important when you shootings particular on dull day because is one
of the things you've got to rely on and politics and so in post production which
is kind of trying to play be darkened the sky just make this yellow a
little tiny bit stronger than I'm seeing them in the back of the camera because
don't forget i'm shootin raw raw files with look dull so we may need to do that
tiny tiny bit but they go to this wonderful fundamental but using a long
lens in the landscape you don't just have to stick to a wide angle
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