Retching!
So we decided to stop off at Gorden Bay just on the way down to the
west coast and look at this business right here just stunning
I mean we've come a little bit late. Would've be nice if we got here about an
hour earlier so that this mist over here was backlit as the Sun rises up through
these trees but we just had no idea that that's how it would be this time of year
so this is logged in memory maybe we'll come back tomorrow or some other time
this week but these conditions this is what you dream about as a landscape
photographer. Sun, mist, low-lying clouds absolutely magnificent. So yeah maybe
we'll come back another day this week. Gorgeous innit?
Well that was a fun little detour but it was definitely time to get back on the road
so the other day we came to this location called Payzant Creek and it's
this gorgeous little waterfall and so we hadn't both we both haven't been there
for like when were the last time you were there a year ago just over a year
ago yeah I haven't been there maybe four or five years and neither one of us
fully realized that if you time it just right you get this gorgeous orange glow
in the background behind the waterfall which then reflects down on all of all
of the wet surfaces and the pool there so when we went the other day we didn't
really do any vlogging because we were so blown away by this light that we were
just shooting like maniacs. So we decided it was so good we would come back again
two days later and have another crack at it to maybe get
some even better shots and maybe shoot some more vlog footage so that you can
see how we got these shots
Oofff. This road is terrible!
it's either gonna be a complete trash with too much water or it's gonna be perfect.
What's your guess?........ crap? I think it's gonna be good so good
yeah. What what are you betting what are you you prepared to bet?
Cliff bar? ............... Cliff bar, bloody ell!
I'll bet you beer and a burger. All right that sounds fair enough.
That it's too much water all right yeah nice so if it's good
I buy you dinner. If it's crap, you buy me dinner! All right deal! You're on!
Every time that I hike this trail I end up on my arse cause I wipe out!
so this time a laced up properly.
For once in my life I finally remembered to film and include plenty of b-roll footage of us hiking through the forest to our
destination perhaps even too much cause there's a lot of this.
It's very doubtful that you can see it but Adam just spotted a little owl just up on that
branch their tiny little owl so cute
What kind of how old you think it is? It's either a pygmy owl or a Saw-Whet owl.
I'm not very good on birds. I think it's a pygmy owl. So cute. I want to cuddle it
Adam sets quite the brisk pace for a guy in his seventies in fact I could barely keep up with him
there's a good reason why it's disgracefully expensive
to live in coastal BC. this is what winter looks like this December and it's
absolutely Scorchio. We're having to strip off. I wish I'd brought shorts
I wish I'd brought my thong. I'd pay money to see that.
look at that so limber. Once again I am very impressed for such an elderly gentleman
Now if you're considering hiking out to Payzant Creek I'll give you this one tip that's gonna
save you a broken ankle. Trust the mud and avoid the wood. Watch me slip on this root.
Woah, off we go. yeah if you just stick to the mud and just don't
care about getting your feet a little bit wet are wear some galoshes like
Adam does, you'll be safe.
Are you err..... experiencing what we were experiencing at the time thinking
when is this trail gonna end? Well it's almost at an end and it's totally worth
the wait.......
so don't tell Adam but I think he forgot about our bet which I clearly lost
because this is the perfect amount of water. He's off flying his drone somewhere
and he hasn't mentioned it so I don't think I'm gonna end up buying him dinner
so what I'm doing here with this shot. if you look at the foreground here what I
like about this shot is, I've got this log just creeping its way in from the right
I've got this beautiful fallen tree here with all of this lovely greenery growing
around it and everything in the shot if you look from the edges it's almost like
a pyramid shape that comes in and it's pointing at these waterfalls these these
three cascades and I framed it up so that I've got just enough of this this
log in the top now this is a sixteen by nine crop so the actual three by two
fits a bit more of that in and a little bit more of this in so it's actually a
much better composition but for the purposes of the video I have to record this
is sixteen by nine but you can sort you still get the idea now what I'm going to
do here I'm going to focus on this area in the background and I'm focusing at
f/8 and then when I'm ready to take the shot what I do is I over expose I
deliberately over expose my shot so that I can I can see things clearly enough to
focus and then when I've got that perfect focus then I'll change my
aperture so with this lens I really like f/8 but I might need a bit more depth of
field f/8 super-shot but I'm a little bit close to this this log that you see
over here so I might need f/11 maybe even f/14 what I'll do is I'll take a few shots
and then I'll look back at them and see you know did I get perfect focus but the
place that I'm gonna focus is right at the back there where that waterfall
is just pouring down and there's a very nice crisp rocky edge there and I'm
gonna focus on that if I do that well pretty much everything in the foreground
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look at that business this is just gorgeous I've got some killer shots did
you get any good shots yeah no it's really it's really good I probably the
best conditions I've ever seen perfect. So ah....you know you owe me a beer and a
burger eh? I was hoping you'd forgotten. No I don't forget things like that.
Err, so I'm getting you dinner. How about Subway?
So let me just explain my thought process with this shot what I'm trying to get is a very tight simple
scene where there's a lot going on and part of that part of the thing about
taking pictures of waterfalls is there's always a section in the image where you
can see here where this kind of like when it comes to video there's not a lot
going on so there's kind of like an empty area where these bubbles are
slowly creeping out but when you take a long exposure that turns into something
else entirely so you might be composing a shot where you think there is no
foreground it's like oh there's no foreground while you're composing it but
then once you've shot it these these little bubbles will create these
gorgeous spirals and tendrils that that kind of creep out towards the the lens
just so interesting and so fascinating so with this composition now again like
I mentioned before this is a this is a sixteen by nine on the video but the
actual composition that I've made is a three by two so you're actually missing
some parts at the top there but you'll see that on the three by two that I'll
show you in a bit and you're missing a little bit at the foreground but you can
pretty much see that I've put the the main falls slap-bang in the center and
then everything else comes around that so so the whole idea is I want
everything to suck your eye into this gorgeous cascade of water and it's it's
beautifully framed by these these canyon walls and I decide there's all kinds of
shapes and and really this this shot is all about this waterfall it's a very
obvious simple composition and sometimes those are the best but what's going to
make this a really special shot is you can already see this lovely orange glow.
this lovely light that's creeping in so once it gets to this section in the
background that's when we're going to get reflections in the
foreground here and that's the comp that out that I'm going for.
So I've set up my composition now it's a nice shot already but I'm gonna
wait and I'm gonna bide my time for that perfect moment and capture as many
exposures as I need to for the different dynamic range the different movement of
water and nail it perfectly
you know as a photography instructor I get to see all kinds of people with all
kinds of gear but I have never quite witnessed anything like this before
What is he doing? look at that it's kissing it! should I be doing that will that make me
a better photographer? Yeah, yeah I saw you!
well we're waiting for this gorgeous golden glow it's bloody freezing in here
D'ya wanna get in my bivvy bag? We could cuddle?
Who's the big spoon and who's the little spoon?
Actually I don't know which is worse. They're both bad!
There's no winner or loser in that situation. Think I'd rather be the big spoon.
Now we know ;)
Oh it's coffee :(
It's not tea!
''cackling''
How can a Yorkshireman not drink tea?
I just don't like it. It's never been my thing..
Ooh that's pretty good. It's warm!
You pour it out out and then as soon as it hits the cold
air it loses its loses its heat real quick.
Have you got herpes?
You have now!
Well that's the last dribble...... pervy chunterings.
It's so bloody cold that Adams had to put on his Vulcan gloves
right , is it on both sides as well?
what's this zipper for? oh you put hand warmers in there. Oh I like that and the
thumbs come off as well. Yeah, are they expensive? Of course they are it's
photography anything to do with photographer is always expensive. they're pretty
well made they're leather. I feel a bit inadequate now with mine. I've got glove envy.
Hey Gavin. Have you got a long lens? Not really very long. No? Not as long as mine?
Mine isn't as long as yours. No? It's really good for getting in there close you know...
You've gotta really, get in there. I've got lens envy right now.
As the canyon got colder and colder, the magic moment finally arrived just in time for my last
shot of the day
You know if you want anything truly beautiful in life, it doesn't come easy.
you've got to be prepared to work, dedicate your heart and soul and you'll find it.
And on the subject of work we had to head back down the trail before
it got too dark, because I owed his lordship a burger and a beer.
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Even though you sh@t yourself?