jonnie bakes bakery it's the place on Lanzarote to go and we come in here on
the workshop to grab a bite to eat and I just score myself a bit of a cross on now
last week we came over here and as I was walking across the car park was
talkin to pat was on the workshop and I don't know why i cant tell me what this
is about the corner of my eye somewhere just went ding there's a picture over there
that happen why is it i can go ding there is a picture over there when somebody else
cant what causes that well its practices doing stuff over and over again
repeatedly it's like driving your car that many times you drive down the
road on total autopilot you somewhere else in a different country you're
thinking about something you're not thinking about driving but if a cyclist
suddenly pops out front if you somehow it all snakes back into place doesn't it
and you take the appropriate action now I can only imagine it's through doing
something over and over again many many times that you start to do this and so I
want to show you what I've seen at the corner of my eye and see if you can spot
the picture and not going through how I shot the picture but first of all im gonna eat my jonnie bakes croissant
you come in lanzarote, you gotta go to what's it call Eden?
know that tell sorry I didn't why mental block to casey Cumz johnnie bakes the
bakery to go to seriously right right be with you in a minute
picture on talking about is here is in this shot you're looking at right now
there's a couple of really cool pictures you're thinking well how can that possibly
be really cool pictures somewhere like that and more importantly how did you
notice them I've got various ideas and I'll come to them at the end of the
video but yes there are a couple of really cool pictures here it's about
exploring and trying different things now what you're probably thinking is
that road signs lights traffic all that kind of stuff can you see no I'm not
sure if I can see in the video where is I think it's about giving a look at the
monitor is about there see those roves as orange roves against the blue sky and
then beyond obscured by an orange bus at this moment there is the old stone work an
old church is all kind of fit in together now a little piece of the
entire scene taken on its own
really interesting beautiful little picture particuarly it you know it's
mid day sun is high in the sky often mornings and evenings are pretty good
for that but it's also times when above light works well and the light from above
working quite well at the moment is putting little tiny shadows around the
tiles the ridge tiles and that's giving them texture and shape ok so how do we
execute this picture how do you tease that out of this entire scene more
importantly noticed it well will come to that obviously we're going to need a
long lens our way we're gonna need to zoom that lens out a bit
now where would we stand
obviously not where I am right now because you can probably see I think yes
this whole now on the other side of the street there's a poll a lamppost and
it's kind of lining up but it is getting in the way so let's just have a look i'll see if i can get a
video in this one for you as you can see that poll there is lining up with our church
we're already seeing just by zooming a little tiny bit there how the picture
has improved from what the video camera the main video camera was seeing but
we've still got nasty you know zebra crossings thing going on the street
light so it's about moving it's about finding where you need to stand to make it
work how about if we come up here and get on the wall will it be better
well stand out here have another look I leaned against this post to keep me still
in the winds that's better already isn't much better but we still got that lamp
post and I don't really like it just a bit annoying by panning to the right I
can kind of crop it out it doesn't look very good as it's almost too hard to the
side and there's too much going on on the right of the picture so what do we
do move yourself let's just come this side
and see if it's looking better video that movement so with this site here now
as I get some post their it goes move to the right along the wall and wobbling is
employed in its without
now look as I move say how black post is starting to move with me is no longer an issue is
it so we've got a bit of a shot going on there and buy re composing how's
that if i zoom the the lens in a little bit just start sneaking in that zoom I'm
really got quite an awesome little picture going on like this now if i go tighter still can I just capture
the very top of it like that now i cant live preferably without the post
quite a nice little picture they're just against the Blue so looking through my
splendid camera and just get a line something up and I am gonna take the
first one including
the poll there we go so that was shot in a 640 point for using 200 ISO and just
under hundred-millimeter lens
recompose to see if I can video my recompose a bit so here we go that's the shot I had
so how about if we zoom in a little bit and recompose the shot to something like
that we're just gonna keep a little bit of the characters to the right we gotta
do but I miss Steve ok now in the background
not bad right stop the video take the picture
we're not focusing on focusing on the tiled roof it's a long way away beyond
infinity point the lense ADAP to worry too much about that you gotta check all
around the viewfinder all the time I prefer to get it right in the camera
then try and crop afterwards because I can't be asked this be this far this is
a bit which I really like shooting the picture the other way up how could we do
that in other ways in which we could do that if I zoom out and make it smaller
but I'm seeing is negative space if I bring that back to their but now I've
got some of that ghastly lamp post which I don't want but I think I can probably
use this way a bit more
snake past it or like that like that the negative space going on right
video and take the picture
focus on there and line it up lots of negative space against that beautiful
blue tiny bitter row
any street lamp make sure its level because I don't mess with it later
I love that you can see there's lots of possibilities you could work with doing
a shot like this I can play around in this car home pages but going back to
the key question how do I spotted in the first place and more importantly how can
you stop to support things like this in the first place
have a cup of coffee and a chat about it
his faltering to say gracias kissing guys who run it
additional I thought you might be but it's very dangerous Canadian but you
know North Americans Canadians and Americans are very touch if you get that
one wrong anyway and the picture show more importantly how can you spot the
picture of yourself
truly is a question of practice you have to practice these things over and over
and over again now it's easy to get despondent with that but the thing is as
you do unfamiliar things repeatedly your brain is gonna form near apartheid is a
proven think there is a science been studied at both Harvard and Princeton at
the moment is called positive psychology it's all about the way in which your
brain create new pathways in new ways of thinking about doing the same action
repeatedly over and over again you will find that things will start to become
subconscious it'll be like muscle memory so myself and a lot of other
photographers you been doing it for years and years isn't taking the camera
out for an air for an hour or two of an evening this is like you know forty
fifty hours a week for years it starts to become muscle memory and that's how
myself and many others trust me many many others will walk out somewhere and
it's like a little alert goes BBB picture picture picture even though
we're not looking for all looking at it it's like when you drive your car and
child runs out you could be on total autopilot the moment your brain sees
that child it makes the connection and you do something about it if it was the
day after you take your driving test you be driving down the road all nervous and
staring everything just in case something
if that's where you are at the moment with photography
just a case of practice and it'd be like driving a car after time so don't
despair with this sort of thing just keep doing it
give yourself a little exercises like looking at pictures really looking at
pitches if you visit the location look around the location think about the
pyramids in Egypt and a classic shot at the sinks in the pyramids going on you
know if you turn around you got McDonalds or something like that behind
you it's about another video isolating yourself from the environment that's the
key is to keep looking don't be distracted don't walk around looking
iffy or thinking about something else
walk around really looking teach yourself how to look at the light
look at what's going on around you can imagine frames around things you see
something that interests you know you feel like an idiot doing this in the
street but you know the old saying used to see with people doing this and gang
not that i truly truly if you like that and you close one eye it's like looking
through a long lens frame around something like doing this at you right
now if I move my hands that way I put you to the left side of the image or to
the right or to the bottom or the top tiny movements a wide lens is the
equivalent of doing this I'm now bringing in two shots the corners of the
cafe he might feel like a complete dumpty doing that but it will help you
to isolate think so maybe try in the privacy of living room when no one's
watching you can laugh at you I got people laughing at me on the other side
of this cafe even come here come on come here
you were laughing I don't know you might know if you came on this paper you know
this is Adan work world-renowned champion surfer by ok he got old wrinkly
reading the Lanzarote workshop will help me set out if any of you guys that came
last year all this year watching yeah it's cool anyway gotta practice do that
and don't be embarrassed
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