so with Morten Hilmer here I wanted to cover some more distance and to do that you
can't really do it on Pegasus so I've rented a car I'm gonna go pick
up Morten now and we're gonna go cruise somewhere on Crete and try to find the
cool landscape to photograph
sorry Pegasus I'm cheating on you
hey man!
say hi to me what's going on how's your morning like awesome you might want to
move that seat back yeah yeah okay so Morten's here again Morten Hilmer and
we're not going to photograph wildlife because we did some research quickly to
see if there was wildlife in Crete we found this mystery cat that was called
the Cretan Lynx or something like that and we've never seen a picture of it
because it's so hard to find so instead we're gonna go find like a landscape and
work for you yeah you've gotta know what he's got no choice I got your coffee
thanks buddy extra sugar
I think I found Morten some wildlife there's some goats up on the road we are
off the beaten path here in Crete for sure we're definitely off the paved road
we're going up and over this mountain pass and I'm told according to Google
Maps that there's a beach on the other side and hopefully our little rental car
can make it but we're basically we're in the mountains it's dry it's sunny it's
hot and the views are crazy as I just scare the goat away
two one we are on the most incredible road in Greece that I've seen so far
we're twisting down the side of this cliff that's the sea that way I don't
know if you can see it into the back light there are some huge Peaks and it
is absolutely incredible desolate remote and probably the worst
place you ever want to be if you're running out of gas on that note we're
running out of gas I made the assumption that when we picked up the rental car
there'd be fuel in it there wasn't so we're running out of gas it's already
blinking low fuel we don't want to run out of fuel here because we'll be in the
middle of nowhere so being sensible which Morten is he's decided that we're
gonna turn around we're gonna turn around we're gonna find a fuel station
hopefully before we run out of gas and then try to book it back here before
sunset it's already almost 5pm sunset's at 8:00 so we are gonna have to be quick
but it does make more sense rather than you know dying out here we don't even
have water no water no fuel that's just a bad idea
we made it.
we got fuel are you happy about that?
yeah definitely yeah and I
found some nice cold chocolate in the chocolate and fuel were sorted and I
think we still have tons of time I think it's like maybe yeah maybe cost us 40
minutes so we'll be back in time for sunset I think
so I think my buddy Thomas Heaton would be proud of this moment because I'm
about to take out a long lens and take a picture of a tree I'm not sure it's
gonna work but I've got my polarized sunglasses on and driving down this road
I just see these trees that are stuck out here in the middle of the like in
the middle of the desert essentially this arid landscape and they just look
phenomenal the contrast of the green to the to the red and grays and I think if
I get a polarizer on and a kind of angle so I'm not directly into the backlight
they'll really really pop out I don't know if it'll look good it's gonna be a
simple photo probably the 100-400mm straight into this but yeah it's just
the contrast is so incredible I have to shoot it
the reason that this landscape image has potential to work is because the sunlight is
coming in hot at the top as you can probably see by my face being absolutely
lit by it and it's catching all these trees but there's a massive rock face
that's blocking the light on that side so it's creating this huge shadow and
it's just accentuating the contrast now my polarizer didn't work the polarizer
doesn't tend to work straight into the Sun it works best when it's at a 90
degree angle to the Sun so I ended up taking it off but that wasn't the
biggest issue the biggest issue is that there's too many trees that I couldn't
isolate one single tree as I need to block the Sun obviously I couldn't
isolate one single tree and it's just a little bit cluttered but just based on
the light it's phenomenal so I'll probably keep these images
and I guess we better get down to the beach cuz sunsets coming up quick
compared to Denmark how's the weather
Same like in Denmark but so much warmer
I think I I'm still not what I say when you get used to it another temperature
may be I'm so sticky or lower just information yes so we made it down to
Kazoumou and it's not a Danish thing I've been here for a month and I'm still
not acclimatized to the heat I'm sweating it is hot yeah kudumo I think
is the place that we are at I had no idea what was here I just did a Google
search and it looked interesting there are some people here there's an old
monastery here and I apparently there's a cave here so we're gonna hopefully
find something to take photos of we've got the master of wildlife photography
here he's got a big ol lens in a backpack but I get the feeling we're
gonna put on something a little bit wider today for landscape photography
there's a little bit worried when we got here because there's it's just a big
open beach but there was a sign saying there was a cave that's what I found on
Google Maps as well and I think when you have a cave like this you can create
cool stuff a little bit later at night just because you can use shadows and
frames I don't think this is as good of frame as I expected it to be but we're
gonna keep looking okay so it turns out the second cave is awesome and the water
is so clear here it's unreal it's one of those things that if photography is
trial and error even when you're a pro you can kind of guess what's gonna
happen but you don't always know what's gonna happen and so this is part of that
trial and potentially error but let's set up the gear and see if it works
is there anything better than shooting landscape photography or photography in
general with your feet in the waves it's so nice I'm going crazy in here with the
filters I've got a three-stop hard grad ND and
the four stop medium grad that's seven stops of light crushing into this and
I'm basically just trying to time some waves I want maybe a two-second exposure
so I'm gonna go ISO 200 two seconds f11 let's get that sorted and that was the
exactly what I wanted to happen I basically the waters really really
calm it's way too calm if I go too long with the exposure it'll just flatten it
out and it won't have any drama at two seconds if I can catch one of these
waves coming through here I think one's about to go right like that it will show
that whiteness that smokiness in the water and right now it almost looks a
little bit to HDR because I've got too many filters on but it's just kind of
how it has to be I've also got a polarizer on to cut out
some of the glare on the water and yeah it looks like a simple image but believe
me this wasn't a simple one to produce
so I'm not sure of this photo it's gonna work it's looks okay on the back of the
camera it's one of those images I think that just needs some post-processing
maybe to be brought to life I definitely can't fault the light purple and blues
in the skies just the way you would like them here let's go see what Morten's doing
so I love watching photographers from other fields take pictures of landscapes
because they just have a different eye and an eye that I don't have and as soon
as I look at the back of their cameras I can tell what they're trying to do but I
would have never seen that so it looks like Morten's got I don't know tell me
what you've got going on yeah I'm just trying to always kind of like my beef is
very simple and I get confused by all the shapes and stuff so I try to find
one one little thing and try to make the water help me I like to photograph in
snow so I thought with the long exposure I can turn the water into snow and
create my own little landscape of simply simply PCT yeah yeah yeah it's it's
funny because like I said I never would have thought of this image myself I woke
up saw it more than had this camera pointed on that way yeah I like it
that's nice it's just like this little u-shape and then you've got a center
rock in the inside and then some water smashing through and as you mentioned
when a nice bit of wave comes through turns it to snow or smoke
this is this is fantastic hey yeah it's really nice it's really really nice I
think both landscape and wildlife photography is very similar and that it
just puts you into nature it just puts you on a beach or it puts you in a field
or a forest or somewhere it just puts you in nature and it's just such a
rewarding feeling it's such a peaceful feeling
we're done I I honestly don't know if I got a photo what I do know is I had fun
I had such a good time it was beautiful the water is nice and it's good to have
Morten's company.
if you haven't checked out Morten's channel yet be sure to go
check it out especially when he gets to Crete because you'll probably get to see
him try to do some landscape photography and I think the reality is he's probably
really good at it the thing about good photographers is they can do any type of
photography um landscape photography was cool there another thing I love about
landscape photography is you can almost always find a location no matter where
you are sometimes all you need is a tiny little cave and some rocks and Greece
has lots of rocks tomorrow we'll be back with Morten we're heading up to Chania
and it should be amazing see you guys there
peace