Hello and welcome to another day of landscape photography I am up and out
very early in the morning and it is absolutely stunning I already have some
amazing views after a trek up here in the dark I'm at Hawnby Hill Crag in North
Yorkshire and it's absolutely beautiful. I've been struggling recently and I've become
bored with landscape photography I'm here today to change that so come with me!!
.........three hundred and sixty degree views all the way.........
So with this being a sunrise shoot the big shot comes right at the start of the
day so I do want to talk about why I'm feeling a little bit bored with
landscape photography at the moment. I am going to talk through my first shot
before we do that though because I'm already set up and I have the camera
very low down on the tripod and I've got the Sun rising beautifully with some
nice color not amazing but nice color in the sky behind me and then I have
pheasants flying around all around me a little bit off putting but I've then got this sort of
frozen North Yorkshire valley in the scene as well and to provide a little
bit of foreground interest I've found a very small lone tree now this is a
beautiful example of where perspective is really really important in your
photography because just a slight shift in height or moving left and right will
change your perspective in landscape photography.... or photography
generally, perspective is the relationship between the sensor or your
eyes and the scene and the distance between those things in the scene as
well it isn't actually when you zoom in if you zoom in your perspective does not
change it's if you move the camera that your perspective changes so as an
example I've got this small lone tree here and when we're up at this height you
can barely see it because I've got the camera down low but we start to move
down like that the perspective changes and that lone tree rises up above the
horizon line and then really really makes the image work I've then got that
beautiful sunrise color in the sky as well I'm bracketing. The foreground is
still quite dark compared to that background and I'm doing two stops
either side. I'm at f/11 because we're relatively close to the tree. I'm at ISO
100 and then I've got a nice little long exposure of around 20 seconds. As a start
to the day when I've not been feeling particularly good about my landscape
photography recently I think it's gonna work out really well. Right let's take that
shot I've got a pheasant very close now if we can see that. Do I want a pheasant
in my shot? I don't really know you know let's find out
take the shot, two second timer, I think the pheasant just walked out of the
scene....but that is looking really good.
So being bored by landscape photography that's the title of the video today and
I think I just need to clarify what I mean because I'm not sick of consuming
landscape photography in any way it's just the actual getting out and shooting
it I have done a lot of landscape photography this year I've pretty much
shot every week of the year and I've shared the vast vast majority of it with
you. I'm just starting to feel a little bit burnt out and you may have noticed
over the last few weeks I've done videos from the studio and it's purely because
I just did not feel like I wanted to go out. It happens to everybody in any walk
of life and the more you do stuff the more routine it becomes and then the
less interesting it becomes sometimes. The way I've been feeling recently is
I'm only really happy when I am creating and that hasn't necessarily stopped so
it's not particularly a negative thing all it means is I've just taken a little
break from my landscape photography I've done some water drop photography I've
created more videos, i'm pouring my energy into other things temporarily I decided
then just to take a little break to try and reset a little bit. It was still though
difficult to come out this morning. I had to really really work hard to get
my backside out of bed but, I mean, how much has it paid off? That was an absolutely
stunning sunrise so I've loved it so far today I've got a couple more shots to
get yet but I just feel like I'm reinvigorating myself for landscape
photography I've still been enjoying the outdoors but here I am again and that
feeling of well-being and that increase in mental health that you get from doing
this coming out and about into the outdoors it's inspiring it inspires me
and I'm sure it inspires you as well so if you're feeling down and if you're
feeling in a bit of a rut let me know down in the comments and we'll see we'll
see what we can do to get you out of it. That creepy creepy pheasant is still
bothering me but it's nice to be out of the little landscape photography rut
that I've been in.
I'm out shooting some landscape
photography today and I can't get rid of this creepy little friend look how close
I am to him, look at that!! Say hello to the people on Instagram..... look at that!!
After that I am set up for my second shot of the day and the Autumnal colours
have been really late this year........ that thing is stalking me......
Anyway I remember
last year around Halloween the autumnal colours were in full flow. This year it
just it never really happened but we're into the middle of November now and we do
actually have some pretty nice autumnal colours, at least here in North Yorkshire
so that's what I'm trying to put in to this shot I have the 70-200mm
lens on the front and what I'm trying to do is just to capture some of
this beautiful morning light that's casting long shadows from the trees
across that icy green field and then I've got some of the autumnal trees
surrounding that. It's quite a close-in shot but it just gives a really nice
feeling of what the view, what the atmosphere is like from up here. Settings
wise there's a little bit of interest here too because I'm quite high up here
and it's very windy and with that lens on the front there's quite a lot of
movement I'm not really paying much attention to my tripod or anything like
that so I've upped the ISO to 1250 that's allowing me to get the shutter
speed up to 1/160th of a second which when it fires I'm taking
all the movement out because when I was at a normal shutter speed it was about
one tenth when I was at ISO 100. There was a bit of blur and I was losing
sharpness in my image because that lens was moving around so upping it to 1250
on the ISO has sorted that out and I've now got a really nice sharp image of
this beautiful autumnal scene.
That pheasant is really quite disturbing it's
just circling me like it wants something... i'm unnerved
Okay so I'm all set up for my last shot of the day and I've come down from where
I was before this hill here, that's Hawnby Hill crag and I've got this lone tree
forming a quite nice composition. I've got the tree in the foreground, you've
got all this sort of Heather and moorland leading you up to the hill in
the background and then the Sun is in the shot too which is not ideal so I'm
hiding the Sun behind the branches with my perspective on the camera to just cut
down that light a bit so it doesn't over expose and put flare into my image so
I'm at about 24 millimetres at the moment it's just working with that
composition really nicely there are actually some quite interesting clouds
and I'm managing to capture that so it's just gonna make that image just a little
bit better as a scouting picture I'll come back another day it'd be another
lovely little spot for a sunrise here as the Sun starts to come up behind that
hill or maybe later on in the year when it comes around and you get some nice
bit of colour in the sky as well. So I'm just gonna capture the image I'm at f/16
iso 100 i'm bracketing as well because it's very bright in the sky I want to
cut that down a little bit. Two stops either side as normal and let's have a look
at that yeah that's pretty straightforward
pretty nice and I'm happy with that as my third shot of the day
What a great day I've rediscovered my mojo or my passion for landscape
photography. It was absolutely beautiful up there. I've really enjoyed having a
little play with the drone as well and it's just been a really fun day. When
you've got a place like this who needs the Lake District. Who needs that World
Heritage Site when I've got North Yorkshire today all to myself
brilliant day please do subscribe to the channel if you like this kind of stuff
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soon I'm Adam this is First Man Photography
in North Yorkshire
Out!!