Good morning, everyone!
Look at that, so, so beautiful!
What a beautiful place, what a beautiful sunrise, once again
Today I'm at Arches National Park, I'm not at Canyonlands, I changed my mind last night
because it's a much longer drive to get there,
and to be honest I'm kind of getting tired of so much driving
so I came here instead, but as you can see the landscape is pretty much the same
it's all about the colors, very colorful
landscape and very, very harsh light... not even a single cloud in the sky
so I'm going to keep going with the ideas and tips
about how to shoot black and white photography in these landscapes
I guess the main difference between this place and Canyonlands is that the
rock formations here are above ground, instead of underground
because there were canyons there, and here there are arches above ground
I spent most of yesterday pointing my camera down, and today I'm going to be pointing it up
and that leads me to the next step, that is look for strong shapes and silhouettes
it is going to be much easier to do here
because I'm going to be able to contrast these rock formations, these arches, against the sky
as opposed to what I was able to do yesterday,
just pointing down the camera and there was nothing to contrast those rocks against
just more rocks
That one back there was the perfect example of a very strong shape
not just the arch itself, but there was also a pretty cool tree
in front of it that I was able to fit in the frame and contrast against the background and the sky
do I wish there were some clouds so I could make a long exposure here?
sure, but there are none and I have no choice but to do with whatever I've got today here
that is a beautiful shape, I love it, and the background is very lovely as well
this is almost perfect, the only problem is all the weeds around the tree that I got in my shot,
I don't know if they are going to be visible once I work on the photo
and if they are, I might fix that in post, in Photoshop or something
better to do it in Photoshop here than in real life
We'll see if this turns out, but very, very lovely
And yeah, even though it's not something that I usually do,
sun stars is another idea for these kind of landscapes and this kind of weather
since we already have the sun, we might as well just take advantage of it
just bear in mind that this is going to reveal
how dirty your sensor is, in my case it is very dirty, it needs some cleaning
Oh my god, I completely forgot the camera here
I drove more than half a mile with the camera on the roof
that is... that was very lucky
Talking about the sun, something I don't really use very often is a lens hood
but you really want to use them in places like this one,
it's so sunny and everything is reflecting light everywhere
Well, that was definitely a beautiful arch
there were a few clouds, which were great because I was able to make a
couple long exposures that I think look very good
and now it's clearing up, which is great news for the last idea that I wanted to share in this video
Look at all those lights, people coming back from the arch
All right, so the last idea for today is,
of course, some night photography, where colors don't matter as much
so I'm trying to make an image of this cool rock here and maybe some star trails around it
it's going to be challenging because there are a lot of people passing by with cars
and flashlights, so I might have to discard a few frames here and there
it's still worth a try, it might work in the end
I have no idea if this image is going to work out
I just spent the last 45 minutes out there taking a bunch of shots that I'm going to combine later,
to create that image with the star trails, that was my idea
but I'm not really sure about the composition
it took me a long time to find it, I hope I did, because it's pitch dark you can't
see anything even on the screen of the camera, it's very hard to see
I don't know if
the rock is going to be in focus, or anything is going to be in focus, I have no idea
even though it was almost a perfect night for star photography,
there were some clouds that rolled in for the last 5 or 10 minutes of the exposure
so we'll see if I have to discard all those frames or not
but yeah, otherwise it was beautiful
I have no cell phone service here, and I had nothing to do
I was just waiting for the camera to
be done, so I was just staring at the stars and you could see the milky way
you can see the milky way still
it was beautiful and very, very peaceful
I think that's going to do it for this video, I hope you all enjoyed it
I hope you all got something useful from it, if not from the tips at least it was entertaining
Thank you...
thank you so much for watching, and see you in the next one!