come out of the woods with brown again
what are we gonna do well I want to talk to you
about techniques of photography things
that we do with cameras about controls
and ways of using them and thinking
about how they work I know I bang on
about thinking but it is the most
important thing you're the most
important thing in all of your photos
this was really clearly demonstrated to
me when I came down to this very car
parking on one day with a lady called
Becka Dixon and her mum they booked me
for one-on-one and we came out here
and becka showed me a really cool little
technique she thought of a way of
putting together some camera controls
and some body movements to make some
really nice arty little things and
that's what I've come down here to share
with you. So all I need is my trusty camera
i'm using my X-T1 because I can shoot
video through it really really easily I'm
only using a bog standard lens
there we go so let's go investigate
yeah I know what you're thinking you're
thinking but there's cars everywhere
browne you idiot
well yeah that's true you can see there's
cars all through the car park there but
that's a function of composition isn't
it so what controls composition you do
cameras do shutter speeds and apertures
but composition isn't a camera control
composition is controlled by arms and
legs and hands and knees and things like
that and going like this and moving around isn't it
let's have a little look how do we do it
so the shot i'm thinking of let's get my
best video camera rocking and rolling in
here so we can do good little bit of
video for you so look I'm thinking about
shot something like this and as you can
see we've got a car in the car park over
there haven't we so how do we lose it well it's
really simple isn't it! we just move around look
you soon as I moved to my right a bit
there we go look the nasty car's gone i
could even zoom the lens an inzy bit
and that just makes our little path
through the trees look even nicer so
that is going to be our composition kinda
thing but what are we going to do with it
right so when you know those techniques
of photography and you know what
shutters do and shutters control movement
don't they you can start to put
together ideas to how to use them so I
want to give the feeling the emotion of
sort of being in a little woodland a
walk and I like the light on these trees
so what we need to do to get movement
into these trees because let's face it
trees don't move about a lot do they
we move the camera we don't move the tree
well I can't anyway so we'd need to use
a slow shutter speed wouldn't we to induce
movement that means I'm gonna have to
put on a low ISO let's have a little
look and see what kind of a shutter
speed i can get so let me start closing
down my aperture I was on f4 we're now
going down to f-22 i've got 2.5 I got a third
of a second and I'm not altogether sure
the third of a second is gonna be slow
enough we all we can do is try it you
must try things out now I don't know if you noticed
a moment ago I just kind of moved my
hips I kind of went from here to here
and that is because here i can see this
is going to be blurry but you can see
the car
whereas if i move to here you can't look
what a little tiny movement that is
that's a composition control
ok so let's see what we can do let's get
back on subject right we got just about
half a second let's see what happens if
we move the camera following the lines
of the tree so we're going to start
let's start at the top and come down and
see okay where we got something a little
bit blurry but it's a bit messy and we missed the
woodland walk, the shutter speed was too
fast so let's try moving a bit faster
hmm that's not very good either is it
let's try going the other way
always trying things out what happens we
start at the bottom and move up let's
make sure i'm not my car in the shot
start down here oh the lights changed we've
got a slower shutter speed now
okay well it's looking better but we're
still not getting it. Let's just see i want
to see more of those trees
let's just see let's go a little bit
more slowly
oh that's a bit more interesting isn't
it. Look you see how creative you can get
just by thinking things through and just playing
about with those controls and using the
first building block of photography
your awesomely brilliantly fabulously
wonderful brain let's have another go at
that
now look what we're doing here is
holding the shot at the beginning so
I've got one second roughly nearly one
second exposure it's about half a second
what we're doing is we're holding the
exposure for half of the time so maybe
a quarter of a second to the exposure is down
here with the trees and then the rest of
the exposure is that movement so we've
got frozen tree trunks followed by that
i'm using my image stabilizing by the
way I'm keeping that switched on because
it might just help with some of the
shaky shaky because there's a lot of
shaky shaky going on here you know we
don't usually do half to one second
exposes without a tripod let's have another go
gosh i have to keep remembering to just go
like that so I lose that awful blue car
right one more let's just focus i got my
tree in place and
ooo I like that one
ooo I do like that one so there you go
it's just a little technique it's something for
you to play with it's something to use your
brain on something for you to go out and
practice with ok the purest will say
that's not a sharp picture well no it
isn't but it's an artistic picture it's
being creative and it's giving you a
little bit of practice playing around
with all those awesome camera controls
so there you go i'm gonna go off and do
something else looks like it's going to be a nice day
have a great time i'll see you next time
take care guys bye
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