see we are at the Mount Birdwood parking lot he's had eight hours of sleep. I've had 2.
- and we're about to go on a six-hour hike one way that's 20 kilometers and
spend the night in grizzly country so fun times should be good.
so we're up here at Mt birdwood with their sore on the trail we've got probably
another 118 k yeah so far it's been flat just an old logging road here but we're
going to be headed up pretty quick yeah the steep stuff will start so we've got
another what five hours of this but it's pretty beautiful look at this
spectacular sky without lenticular cloud so onwards it up would stand again look
at this devastation we're right in the path of the Avalanche holy imagine what
this sounded like when it was happening to carnage an absolute carnage
so we just made it across the snow patch and the Avalanche so now we we're just
walking up this really steep slope I would say what would you say Brett we're
about a third of the way in the red can offer you more than half I think connect
a modern high first pretty good right the hard right now yeah
so what we're aiming for is a place called smoked gouda peak and the peak
itself isn't that epic but what what it does afford is a fantastic view of this
mountain here if you think it's bird would work the dolphin here yeah and so
that's why the shot is so hopefully that's what we'll get we'll get what we
came for maybe we'll get some clouds fingers
crossed till then we've got some severe
elevation gain I reckon what about one hour from the summit out first
what would peak the goal is a shot at this peak you're the sunset as a like
exit from the site so we've got quite a bit of elevation as they want
hopefully will be more clouds will get semantic stuff so that's it we fill it
that we made it they leave you can see this on the GoPro the way up in the
distance that you can actually see a wildfire begin when that's what the huge
plume of smoke is going up and it's being blown east and you see that's its
passage all the way so luckily we're out at the top of that where we're shooting
but yeah that's quite scary so here we are upon the summit regard be jerky but
you know what this moment knees bent trail loop trail we don't want one gear
up here so we've decided on hand red wine which is probably equally bad but
I'll let you do the honors
that's not durable is it yet I can close it was close
thought it was going to like matter them in vinegar so what I want to talk about
here is the polarizer blob and if you've never encountered this problem before if
you're if you have and you just didn't know how to deal with it whenever you
shoot with a wide-angle lens and you've got a polarizer on if you're looking at
the blue part of the sky here as I rotate the polarizer you're going to see
this dark patch move across the sky and that's going to really annoy you in post
when you start going through your images and you're looking at you think how did
I miss that so the first step is to always just remember that that's going
to be a problem if you've got a wide-angle lens and so how I get around
that is I'll take multiple frames I'll take multiple versions of the same
picture so for example after I've rotated the polarizer now so that it's
pretty much doing nothing in the sky and it's out of the frame if you look at the
sky in air that blue patch of sky he doesn't have the blob on it so I could
take that shot and I'll be fine the other thing you can do is turn it just a
little bit and now you see it's just starting to appear in the right of the
frame then take that shot and then you'll take another shot after you've
moved it ever so slightly over there almost kind of like doing a panel so
you're going to overlap the blob so take that shot and then I rotate it a little
bit more it's over towards the left take that shot and then all the way out take
that shot and if you have all of those the one
where you have no polarizer blob at all and it's polarizing the bottom half of
the frame and then if you want that DAC that dark contrast in the sky which is
really going to help with clouds but will look off on a blue sky then try the
whole and right to left or left to right blob thing so that it fills the whole
sky and then it's quite easy to edit that in Photoshop and put them all
together so it's an even tone across the sky so that's how I deal with the
polarizer blob when I'm shooting with a wide-angle lens and I've got a polarizer
so what I love about this shot is the way that the light is just hitting these
rocks in the foreground which matches the light that you can see over on the
peaks there so I've composed it so that fit that in I've got the lake in in the
center of the scene and I've lined up the the peak there perfectly with the
the grid lines that I've got in my a.m. rule of thirds grid and that's a top tip
is if you want to really make certain peaks and line up in your frame
whichever is the most important you're probably going to get a much stronger
composition if you line that up perfectly with one of the verticals it
doesn't have to be in the middle it could be off to one of the left or the
right but whichever one it is if you use the rule of thirds grid system with a
diagonal that's going to really help you to compose your landscapes especially
with mountain scenes like these
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