This is probably the stupidest thing that i've done yet ... there's so much water in
the air ... so you can see it's still going strong even though it's absolutely soaked
good morning everybody my wife tonight this is becky we're at henry
falls in south wales so really big falls apparently the biggest in south wales
and um going to try and photograph it it has been raining a lot as well so i'm expecting
there to be a lots of water and yep i can just see it now and there's lots of water coming over
sometimes when coming to a location like this you have the temptation to literally go in
photograph the waterfall come back out and that's it but you're kind of missing out on
some potential photos so when you do come to a location have a look around keep your camera
out and just photograph everything and that's actually a good point i don't have my camera
out so i'm going to get it out right now another thing is when you're at a location like this to
keep the hood on your camera especially when it's raining that'll stop any water getting on the lens
now i've just photographed the marks on this tree i thought it was quite interesting that the way
the light was catching the back side of it so just photograph what you find interesting around you
and don't worry about getting that perfect shot just start using your camera
all right how you doing
now i promise you i'm not just going to take pictures of trees covered in moss
there are a few other things to photograph down here but i did find this tree covered in moss
really interesting it's looking old and decrepid there's just something interesting about it and
because of the valley it's kind of being backlit again i think there's some big dark clouds
over this side of the valley so how can i photograph this got the 85 millimeter on at
the moment i'm just taking different photographs with this lens i'm shooting at one 125th of a
second f 1.8 iso 1250 so that kind of shows how dark it still is and how much of a dreary
day it is but these cameras can handle those high isos and you can still get some great photographs
right so if you want to walk out onto the bridge i'm going to direct becks a little bit here
i'm going to get her to stand in the middle of the bridge because someone in a nice bright top
stands out and it brings a human aspect to the photograph that you're taking
so if you look up towards the waterfalls and just maybe yeah stand up that's it
okay so walk towards me with your head up
and walk away
she loves this honest it's anytime i get to tell her what to do
now it's going to get really loud from here on out so i'll probably have to shout
because those waterfalls are huge but hopefully the audio will come
through and hopefully you'll be able to hear what i'm saying
alex is really shy
oh wow that is a huge falls probably not the biggest in the world but apparently
the biggest in south wales at i think it was 27 meters or 90 feet
what do you think about that yeah that's pretty cool so there's loads of spray coming off it today
lots of water coming over the falls hopefully with this one we can get behind it as well
but we're probably going to get a little bit soaked
now when you get to a location like this it's almost tempting just to photograph that waterfall
and nothing else but you want to think about the environment around it now the lens is getting a
bit wet what can i use this is one of the problems with waterfalls as well all that spray coming off
soaks the lens really quickly so you've got to be quick in getting the photograph
there's a lot of spray coming off today but it's pretty cool
now stupidly i put the wrong lens on
and i wouldn't advise this but i'm just going to quickly change the lens
this is probably the stupidest thing that i've done yet but hopefully it'll work i want to put
a super wide angle lens on without getting any without getting any water on the sensor it's
all going wrong right sensors covered lens is covered lenses back in this is a bad idea wow
because it's so big and bar so i'm going to try and get a massive pano
i think it's really cool so i've got f4 iso 640 160th of a second and the lens is still dry at
the moment because i've kept it pointing down so it goes i'm going to quickly snap through these
and i'm going to overshoot it the back of the camera is completely soaked but hopefully
it'll make for a good photograph right that's it we're going
i love this let's go
and there's so many drips there's very much water in the air hopefully the mic is still working as
well that was pretty cool but if you are doing that i'd suggest getting something on your
camera like a bag just to try and waterproof it a little bit this camera's this camera is pretty wet
so i'm going to try and dry it off and get some shots down here
we've got another tissue ah that glove is really wet
so i'm thinking maybe down here somewhere that'll look pretty cool
as you can probably tell my camera is pretty wet but nowadays if you've got
this clip in the top covering those electrical points and you don't get the bottom dipped
in water these cameras can handle it they can handle a lot more abuse than you think
we're probably about 50 feet 60 70 feet away from the base of it so it does look really tall and it
does look really prominent and that's why the 15 millimeter will work really well what i'm
going to do now is hold the camera handheld and work out what my frame is going to be before i
even think about using the tripod and going to try not to fall in the water i'm thinking
there's some nice little streamy bits in here so i'm thinking maybe under here somewhere
let's get the settings right first i'm thinking somewhere
i'll take a quick shot at 1 60th of a second
if you're taking photos of waterfalls and you haven't got a tripod try and find something
solid to lean on my front element's still looking good 160 of a second the water's
moving quite quickly so this might work but what i'm going to do is take a few different
shots at different exposure times to blur the water a little bit more and a little bit less
so i'm gonna put it there bracing the camera focus is good
i'm just gonna wait for this spray to clear come on go away right there we
go so i'll frame it up quickly and get the shot it's a little bit dark so i'm
going to slow my shutter speed down again so i'll get a few in this one that's 1 15.
that's one fifth let's go even slower again one third
half a second let's change the aperture
uh the lens is getting really wet now half a second f eight uh iso 50.
so that's what i mean by getting water on the lens so try not to do that
now i'm gonna get that shot down the bottom and then we're gonna run away from all of
this water and spray right let's get this one what i want to try and do is get the waterfall
and this water in the foreground i'm going to check focus see where it is that looks good
everything's getting far too wet which is probably a bad idea
so just before i take the shot and get a nice clean dry lands i've got two seconds
so i'll press it jump out the way and hopefully that'll be right
and that's probably how not to do it all right
so now we're out of the spray everything's got very very wet though i spent a lot more time in
that location than you probably should with the kit but this just shows how durable our
cameras are these days they're fantastic bits of kit and they can take a hell of a lot more
than you think most of the time now i'm heading home to dry off all my kit but if you like this
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