Good morning everybody today i'm at Llangattock Quarry you've got all these man-made lumps and
hillocks and then you've got these big quarries where they dug out all of the limestone
I'm
just going to have a look to see how the framing is so i know exactly where to put the camera
thinking maybe there
Now the sun's just about poking out now and it's going to start casting that light
on this landscape i'm not 100 sure about this shot but i'm going to grab this one
and then i've got a few others that i spotted when i walked along the top of the escarpment
could get a little bit hectic before we lose that golden light it's not quite casting enough
light on their landscape yet but hopefully that light will come through any minute now
and when that light first pops up there's not that much to hit all of this landscape but
very quickly as that sun comes into full view it really does change the landscape
there aren't any clouds above where the sun is so
i know that sunlight is going to last for quite a while
I'm just going to use a 3 stop soft grad just to take the edge off that
sky a little bit I'll still bracket as well
because that sky is really bright but this just drops the brightness of that sky just a touch
so the 17mm is not quite wide enough the sun is just sitting right at the edge of the frame
and it doesn't look great let's go f16 come around a bit more
still not brilliant i'll try a shot without the sun as well
there are some lens flares coming into the shot and they're not that pretty and when i actually
block them out my hand is actually in the frame because it's so wide so what i'll have to do
is just edit those out afterwards i've taken a shot blocking them off with my hand in the frame
and then i'll take another shot without my hand in the frame so i've got that corner piece and
i've got the bits where the lens flares are as well so when i do put it together when editing
i've got all of the little bits to make a nice clean frame looking back at this photo it just
seems to be lacking something i think i was too wide and also that sky is just a little
bit boring maybe if i came back midwinter when the sun is properly in the frame with more clouds
this would work a lot better let me know what you think in the comments below come to think of it
i think the photo is actually lacking a subject or a focal point the rocks lead my eye into the
shot but then they seem to get lost in the frame with nothing to stop at and nothing to focus on
i don't know about you guys but when i'm shooting like this after the light has come
up and after i've been shooting and changing around and getting lots of different shots
i end up with chaos everywhere bag open lens caps lens hoods so i've always got to do a run around
to make sure i pick everything back up i have had a few shoots where i've left things lying around
and i've gone away and luckily i've come back and found them but it's not a brilliant thing to do
so i wouldn't advise doing this so now i've got that shot it's okay it's not brilliant and the
light is getting brighter what i like to do is just walk around and get different shots of the
landscape i know my shutter speed's high enough to get a good shot handheld so i think i'm going
to pack up and i'm going to walk back along the escarpment and then come down into here
because there's some interesting stuff all around this place so
i'm going to explore basically now the winds really picked up clouds are building up as
well so the sun is going in and out it still could make for some interesting scenes though i've got
a few ideas around here because i did a location scout probably about a month ago so i'm gonna go
to those locations now and see how different they look with a little bit of sunlight on the scene
i'm also gonna see if i can find some other shots along this escarpment
now the one thing i'd say to take away from this video is to sometimes just go out and enjoy what
you're doing don't worry about whether you mess up don't worry about whether you don't get the shot
just enjoy being out in the fresh air now in some really nice locations the weather will sometimes
work in your favor and other times it will completely go against you
but as long as you're enjoying what you're doing that's the main thing
the views from this location absolutely fantastic and there's some really interesting lines in
these landscapes interesting mountains and because that sun is really low you can pick
out all interesting shadows on the fields shadows on the mountains and things like that
this is what i mean about being patient about the light i've probably been waiting here about 10-15
minutes for that sunlight to come through but the clouds are building up quite a bit
there's basically a tree that i want to photograph up on this cliff so once the sun shines on it it
should create quite a nice shadow behind it bringing it out from the face of the cliff i
was here on the location scout it did squash it as if it was almost drawn on the cliff
here we go there's some light now after looking back at this photo of the tree even with the light
on it it doesn't really stand out and i think it's because the color or the brightness of the tree is
quite similar to the rocks if those rocks were a lot darker this would have stood out so much more
so you can see it really is a waiting game when it comes to landscape photography
and in getting those shots and some of them might not even work so you do have to be really
patient and just like that the light is gone it's amazing how quickly it can come and go
and how quickly the cloud base can change all of a sudden a load of clouds are built up in the sky
and it's pretty much overcast so i think that's it for the day but i really enjoyed this one it was
a lot of fun this landscape is quite unique it's quite man-made but it's man-made a long time ago
you