Good morning, everyone. It is freezing out here, but it is so beautiful
We've been having this foggy weather for the last few days, and I'm just here trying to take advantage of it
I spent the last couple of days doing some scouting and I took some photos or images with the digital camera
But today I decided to grab the bronica. I'm gonna revisit some of those compositions that I think
they are promising and have some potential. This is the first of them
this is like an old... I don't know if it's abandoned because the lights are on, but this is like a gas tank that
was serving the town until not too long ago, I believe
I think that with this fog and those lights on it looks pretty dramatic
And that's the first composition that I'm gonna be capturing today, but there are so many more
so let's do it
I'm gonna make an image of this railroad now. It looks pretty cool in the fog
This is one of the very few cases where you should not use a tripod
It can get very dangerous if the train comes and you have to move really quick with the tripod and everything
So I'm gonna be handholding my bronica. That's one of the reasons why I love pushing HP5
I'm shooting it at 1600 so it gives me that flexibility of
shooting the bronica without a tripod and yeah, I'm gonna be shooting at 1/500sec, f/4
f/4 is not gonna give me everything in focus and that's really fine
That's what I'm after actually because I want to have some part of the railroad the foreground, the very foreground, immediate foreground out-of-focus
So it kind of draws you in more in the image. I kind of like
doing that in my images. So yeah, that's what I'm gonna be doing
Okay, so this is my next
composition. We're still next to the railroad and this tower / building
I guess it was doing something, servicing the railroad somehow a few years ago
I would say, I'd bet that is totally abandoned now for the look of it
But I think it looks pretty cool in the fog. Actually, everything looks cool in the fog
And today is really really foggy like almost too much
That's why I'm using the orange filter, trying to get a little bit of extra contrast here
The settings are pretty much the same 1/500sec and f/4, f/4.5
But yeah, pretty much the same I could be shooting handheld
but I like to use the tripod because it
slows me down a little bit and it makes me think a little bit more about the composition
but yeah, I'm gonna take this shot and hopefully it works out
And that right there is my next composition that is a tree with... I don't think you can see it
But it is like a little cabin or a structure there
It looks very cool again in the fog. The good thing about the fog it is that it helps isolating subjects
So this subject wouldn't work in a regular
any other day or regular day because the background is very busy and there are a lot of trees and a lot of
noise that doesn't add anything to the composition because you just want to capture that tree and that cabin, so the fog helps us
just making everything else disappear. Now, granted, it's very foggy
So it's almost making disappear that tree and that cabin as well
But I hope I can recover some of that darker tones in post
So that's what I'm gonna try to capture
No tripod this time and I'm gonna have to do it quick because I left the car in the middle of the road.
I haven't seen another car this morning just yet, but you never know. So I'm gonna take it really quick handholding the camera
And that's it for this roll, I'm gonna load more HP5
I also have FP4, but I like being able to shoot at 1600 because as I said
I can shoot without the tripod for situations like this. So yeah, I'm gonna load more HP5 and keep pushing it to 1600
Alright
So I would normally be
writing here the speed I shot it at and the date, but I'm gonna be developing this roll and the next one
hopefully today, so I'm not gonna forget. Also, it's freezing
also as I said, this is not the best spot to be at
this is the road, as you can see is not much of a road
but there are cars passing by every once in a while. So yeah
If that last shot that I just took of that tree and that cabin worked out, and I'm showing it to you
I just wanted to mention that I usually do
that kind of composition trick
when I have something kind of far away like a tree or a house or something, and there is like a
hill or a field, I like to leave a lot of negative space and that could be a
either a lot of sky or
a lot of land that leads to the to the object that I'm photographing
I think that it helps the composition or the overall balance of the photo and
that negative space makes the
image feel more calm and serene and I kind of like that stuff
That's why you see many of my forest of trees in the distance or any other kind of object actually
To have a lot of negative space on the bottom, or the top
Depending on the subject and the situation. Got more HP5 loaded here. So let's keep going
Not a very peaceful location but
Almost goes without saying but on any foggy day you gotta capture your power lines
they are almost perfect subjects for days like this because they are like perfect lines that disappear
in the horizon, and they look pretty cool very mysterious
I've got a few this in my portfolio already, but you can never have too many
So that's what I'm trying to do here, I'm taking all the photos today with my normal lens
I only have this one and the
I'm taking all my shots with the normal lens today. I have this lens and the 150mm
That's the only two lenses that I have for the bronica
I gotta admit that sometimes I miss the wider angle that the 50 was giving me, and I kind of regret selling that lens but
yeah, I think I'm fine. I'm fine. I don't need a new lens. So let's make this shot and yeah, move on
So the negative space in this case, in this image, is the sky, the fog, the white
emptiness, and the of course the power lines go through it and they create the
interest in this photo. I'm still capturing a little bit of the
ground of this field to give some context because otherwise it would look like you are just pointing up to the power lines, and
the distant trees that are completely, not completely, but kind of hidden by the fog
It creates a very mysterious and dramatic atmosphere in this image. I believe. I hope it turns out
as I'm seeing it here. And yeah, the settings are the same f/4, 1/500sec, orange filter, focusing to infinity
Photography is pretty easy. Once you find something that you like. I really love this kind of weather. That's why I'm out here
I'm photographing and capturing it because I want to remember it and I think it looks pretty cool
But once you find the subject that interests you and something that you think it's interesting
You just need to find the right conditions and the right light and just be there and make the images
So what I'm looking for is
layers, I think I talked about this in my video about how to compose in square, gonna leave the link
somewhere around there
but yeah the idea here, is that the fog creates layers
because the more distant objects are brighter
Like for example trees are brighter than the ones that are closer to you
so in this case, this is a scene that might work, I'm trying with the longer lens because we have a group of
nearby trees, another group of farther away trees and then another ones that are even farther away. So the fog creates those
different tones, the trees that are next to us or closer to us are darker and the other ones are brighter
and I'm hoping to create two or three layers here. I think it has potential
I'm gonna be using the orange filter here, too
The good thing about the two lenses that I have for the bronica is that they both have the same filter thread 67 millimeters
So I can share all the filters between them and that saves a little bit of money.
I think that higher would work better. But the problem with this tripod is, at this height
I cannot see through the viewfinder that well, so I have to lower this a little bit
I wish I have the other viewfinder too, but it's just
I wish I had the wide lens. I wish I had the other viewfinder
It's just more and more stuff that is, you know, very heavy to bring everything in your backpack
I couldn't have asked for better conditions or a better day for photography. It's already 11:00 in the morning and it's very foggy
I'd say that even foggier than before. This is not normal
this is not something that happens here very often. We get fog very often
but it clears up really quick, in half an hour or an hour after sunrise
but today it's sticking here. And I feel like it's gonna be this foggy for a few hours
if not the whole day. So yeah, this only happens very few times a year, usually in the winter
so I feel very lucky and thankful that I was here and able to go out on one of those days
I feel almost like cheating because it doesn't really matter what I point the camera at, it looks beautiful in this viewfinder
I have an amazing camera
to enjoy this morning. So I'm having a great time here. This is what photography is all about
And yeah, I'm really enjoying myself here
And that was the last frame of this roll. I'm shooting almost way too much
I have another roll here, but I think it's the last one. Then I will have to go back to the car
Ok here, there we go
so yeah, roll a half so far today, I guess it's not too much but
So the fog has cleared up quite a bit in the last half an hour
I guess pretty much just said that it was really really foggy and was not normal and now it's... not gone,
but it almost looks like a regular cloudy day
so I'm gonna keep driving because maybe the fog has moved to another part and
just in case, but I think I'm done talking today, if I find another composition
I'll try to show it to you in the video, but I'm not gonna be talking about it anymore today
I hope you enjoyed the video. I did enjoy this morning out here
Thank you so much for watching. See you the next one