what's going on guys it's the first full video from Sri Lanka today we're just
leaving our hotel and going for a bit of a walk because the rooms not ready and
as soon as we were out of the room monkeys and if you know me you know that
monkeys are by far my favourite animal if you're so cheeky
right on cue that's gonna just jump in my head so cheeky
maybe with me full-time like this counting each breath so we wouldn't miss
it I just the gimbal at home and we kind of have headed out to try to photograph
the sunset but it's really cloudy there's some definition in the cloud
it's not overcast it's not the end of the world but yeah not gonna be a whole
lot of light there's not a whole lot of like really obvious photos in kandy it's
beautiful it's fun but there's not that obvious shot we scouted out this spot
just here which we might come back to maybe for sunrise tomorrow and we
scouted out a church... a church? a hotel that's just on the edge of town that
looks like it might make a really good photo even in light kind of like this so
that's what we're gonna do we're gonna head that way and try and try to make
the photo
okay so
this is the hotel it's Queen's Hotel yeah you can see it
it's very colonial architecture if you will and the cool part about this spot
for a photo anyway is that the traffic's blocked off here because of the temple
so you can basically set up camera gear right in the middle of the street and
get the motion of the vehicles coming around the corner and yeah there's a lot
to play with you can do like a half second shutter speed and get the cars
kind of half blurred or you can wait until later in the evening when the cars
are all lit up and get like thirty second exposures with headlights and
tail lights and stuff so I think there's quite a bit to work with here I'm
probably not gonna move at all from the squad I'm standing exactly in right now
and I think I should be able to get at least one or two photos
you're really left Jan going on in the background so I'm sorry about that
for audio reasons I'm also an idiot because I forgot my filter holders and
filter system at the hotel so luckily Keats has an extra one for me but the
truth is I probably could have gotten by without it here I'm playing games right
now essentially waiting for the light and I'm just trying to get the perfect
shutter speed and I think that a lot of times people think that you need to do
it right the first time but the reality is it's a lot of trial and error so
right now for example I've got the shutter speed at third of a second and
if I fire this these tuk tuks which are beautiful are going to be totally
totally totally blurry they're just going to look like blobs so you kind of
have to play with that shutter speed to find out how quick you want to go how
slow you want to go and the type of mood you want
same bus okay so I moved on to some panning the
lights about right for it I'm gonna walk you through panning really quick but
essentially what you're doing is you're trying to drag your camera pan your
camera at the same speed as whatever you're trying to try so if it's this bus
you're moving your camera at the exact same speed is the bus and if you do that
the bus will be sharp and then the background and everything else would be
blurry and it gives that motion that yeah that motion into the image it shows
that what you're trying to photograph is moving the shutter speed is going to be
different because it's going to depend on what you're photographing so tough
tips like this are moving quite slow so I'm going at about one fifth of a second
that seems to be working quite well if you were doing motor sports or
fast-moving cars it might be like one one-hundredth or one 250th or even one
500 the other important thing to know is you got to kind of pre focus so I'm
focused where I think the vehicles are gonna come through
yeah then just kind of spring and praying you just hold down the shutter
as you pan and hope one of those images comes out
words that day anybody up there listening
so I'm trying to make this video kind of about three different types of long
exposure photography stood in one spot I still haven't moved the tripod and it's
almost time for the third version which is going to be light trails lots of
vehicles are starting to put their lights on the motorcycles have sure the
cars will start it's well pretty soon and then it's just a matter of getting a
long enough exposure to get motion as long as the shutter is open you're going
to get lights from whatever lights are showing so if you think about it car
like that you kind of got to figure out how long it's going to need to get all
the way through your frame and whatever that time is that should be your shutter
speed so if these took tips with their lights on take 30 seconds to get from
that part of my frame to that part of my frame then I need a 30 second exposure
and hopefully I should get a nice light trail all the way out through my image
that's what I'm gonna do and hopefully we don't get rained on because it looks
like the rain is about to come down on us
the rain just started I think I probably got that photo off so managed city with
three different styles the long exposure photography without moving the tripod
which is always fun we're just gonna hide under the shelter pack up the gear
and I'm calling this an episode so it's been fun day one or the full day one in
Sri Lanka and I'm guessing day two will be fun too so I guess we'll see on the
next episode peace