- Hi, everyone, welcome back.
In this week's video
I'm going to show you how you can capture
stunning photographs of the forests and trees
with just your iPhone.
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Last year during lockdown,
not being able to use my real camera.
I was able to get out most days on our daily walk
and use my iPhone.
Let us walk through the local forest
as the sun rose and came through,
filled it through the canopy
and I get some great shots with just my iPhone.
So it got me really thinking about
how I could share that with others,
around how to embrace your iPhone
and take stunning photographs in the forest,
with trees in woodlands, with just your iPhone.
So the first thing we talk about is subject.
Have you tried to snapshot,
which you captured on your iPhone.
You probably do it every single day.
Whether it's food photographs,
your morning commute out with the dog
versus an actual photograph
is your intention for that image or the subject as well.
Yeah. What is the story you're trying to tell?
One of the mistakes that I've made early on
many times is I'm just taking photos of something,
not about something.
And ironically, on the weekend I was looking back
at some photographs I took at the grand canyon
in, is it.
It's not, I don't know where that canyon is.
Where are the grand canyons in America?
Uh, Arizona. It's in Arizona.
Many, many, many years ago
and wasn't good photographs of the grand canyon.
It's not really bad or anything,
it's just the wide vista
that everyone takes a photograph of.
And so now, knowing what I know,
now, knowing what I know now,
I really had the opportunity to go back to a lot of the
grand canyon and be able to tell a better story
with my images.
Same plays to your iPhone.
Being able to use our iPhone today to capture a story
about something, not of something is equally important.
So hopefully as we go around the forest today
and through these trails here on the Mouche Peninsula,
then you'll have the opportunity to have a look at
how sort of work within the scene
to tell a better story with my images,
as opposed to just snapshot,
which is generally what we do with our iPhones.
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So there's a couple things to bear in mind in today's video,
I'm using an iPhone 12 pro,
which actually has three lens built in
which we'll talk about throughout the video.
I'll also be using just the native iPhone app as well
to capture my images today.
If you haven't done so it's always important to,
or handy to have your grid lines turned on.
This helps with the composition.
It's more of a guide than a rule,
but generally I help it to balance out my composition
in scene.
Well, we've got some of my favorite conditions this morning.
Some drizzle, a little bit of heavy rain.
It's very cold this morning.
So, looking to try and maximize the conditions that we have
in framing up a composition this morning,
just using my iPhone.
So, I've walked down this track here
and I took a liking to this tree here,
there, maybe you can see.
Which has fallen over.
I'm just not sure whether there's a composition at.
This is obv- this is obvious.
So, we're looking for something a little bit more unique
and creative
but we'll have to see what else is all around.
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So, what we've got here is the trail leading through,
but in the foreground here,
we've got some ferns and bracken,
some low hanging branches just here from this gum tree,
leading us through to the back of the scene.
We're just further over there.
We're going see two other gum trees,
one falling back into the scene
and one sort of leaning towards a little bit as well.
So in the scene here,
what I see is a couple of some key elements
that are going to really bring us together.
So we're here in the foreground with the ferns
and the sort of forming a triangle across
the front of the scene.
Looking further past these leaves over the,
of the gum,
we've got the, obviously the angle
of the track going through
our scene
and that at the very back there,
the, the two gum trees way back here. Can you see?
Are also forming a triangle point towards
back towards the trail as well.
So, I'm going to frame up the shot on my iPhone now,
and let's have a look at what that looks like.
So what we're trying to do here is
we're trying to find some depth in the scene,
as well as shapes and geometry.
So, by using our iPhone on the two times setting
or the telephoto lens,
which is the 52 millimeter we talked about before.
We're able to bring the scene forward
and really cut out the sky.
Because a lot of gray sky,
now the sky is actually cleared up a little bit,
but we're able to bring the trees forward a little bit,
compressed the scene,
and it looks a bit more natural to the native eyes as well.
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So, just stumbled across a little scene
just as about to pack up and head back to the car.
We've got some beautiful textures of some pine trees
contrasting with
Oh, that's black hawk, we could do it.
Um, contrasting with a Banksia tree,
which is a native tree to Australia as well
and some fern in the foreground.
So, I'll show you what that scene looks like right now.
- [Adrian] So, you see here,
We've got the Banksia tree here on the right hand side.
In the background we've got here,
these couple of pine trees,
but different texture and different colors in the leaves.
Well, so the Banksia are a bit more lighter green,
whereas the dark green contrasting behind
the back of the scene.
And some bracken and fern in the foreground here.
I've got another native pine over here on the far right.
So, we've got to frame up a scene here.
I'll show you on my iPhone what it looks like.
So, what I'm trying to do here with the two times setting
is frame up the image so we're having sky
and ensure that I'm able to capture the native pine
at the far right, and the pine trees in the back
and can create depth within the scene
by having those light with the ferns,
the pond and the bottle brush.
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- [Adrian] It's been a great morning out here
given the morning pinch.
I really enjoyed this little forest nearby.
Being grabbed, I sure had to show you some of the hints
and tips around how to use your iPhone to capture some
of your own images of forest and trees and woodlands
in your local area.
Oh, black cockatoo. Fantastic.
So, we've been challenged today by black cockatoos,
clearly helicopters, trucks, parks,
Victoria clearing some trees from recent storm damages,
but it's been a great morning to really go out there
and show you how some hints and tips around composition
and lighting and how you can tell a better story
with just your iPhone.
In next week's video,
we'll have a look how we can actually process
some of these images, just using some really simple apps
on your iPhone to really bring your story to life
and tell a bit of story about the images you captured
with just your iPhone.
Thanks so much for watching.
Have a great week. I'll see you in the next video.