guess what?
it's foggy again
let's go out
All right, it looks beautiful out here
let's go for a walk around town
it's still early in the morning, kind of dark, so I have the 35mm 1.4 on my camera right now
and you'll notice that it's a saturday morning,
so things are a little bit calmer than usual, than during the week
so it should be very, very nice
I've always liked the shape of that house
maybe using that tree... no
probably not a good photo, but you gotta start somewhere
and taking the first photo is very important because it gets your brain going
and it starts to think in images, you know
it's only september 18th or 19th, something like that, but it's cold this morning
very, very cold
that is beautiful, I mean
it is a beautiful foggy morning
they'd probably look better with a longer focal length
but this 35 is what I have on right now, so it's fine
I'm gonna force myself to do something with it
that's better
I like this because I have this taller tree on the left
I have this slightly shorter tree in the middle
and there is another tiny tree on the bottom right
that I'm trying to include in the frame as well
it's nice, I like it, there you go
you just saw that I took a bunch of shots of the same scene, probably 10 to 15
I like to do that because then, when I get back home, I can sit down in front of the computer
sipping some coffee or some tea, and just choose the ones that I like the most
yes, I could have gone with just a couple shots here
the ones that I think they are the best
but you know, sometimes I find that I have a better judgment of the composition afterwards
and what I said earlier, I really like to stay engaged with the process
and taking more photos makes me feel more engaged
so that up there, I hope you can see it, it's the castle
I've made like 100 million images of that castle
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to find any new angles today
but I guess you gotta try
hopefully you can see it on the screen,
but this shot, this composition from here, as I said I took it
a million times, so I'm not gonna do it today
I'm just gonna keep going
it is a nice view, though
and with the fog, it looks especially good
I don't know, it's kind of eerie
I love it, I just love it
yeah, I might as well just try it, nothing special to this
just trying to keep this end of the wall here, ending on the,
not bottom, but almost bottom right edge of the frame
and keeping the tower in the middle
I think it's looking nice
Here, you would normally see the whole valley
but as you can see, it's pretty foggy today
which I love, no complaints
we've been having a lot of fog lately, like a lot
and I've been loving it
maybe... this tree looks nice...
not really
so, what I'm gonna do now because I've been up here, as I said, a million times
and I think I've already gotten most of the shots that I can get here
I usually come with a wide-angle lens because
it's the only way to fit the tower and everything in the frame
so what I'm doing is switching to my 85 millimeter lens
I don't think I need the nd filter for now
just to force myself to see this place in a different way, you know
I usually look at the castle, the tower and everything around it from a wide angle perspective
trying to capture everything in the frame
maybe forcing myself to do something with the 85 will result in new images
different, at least
we'll see if that's true
but yeah, sometimes using a different lens helps
I mean, right away, I like this composition of those three street lights
one thing that I want to mention here, as you can see, the more to the left we move,
the more the lights get closer to each other
to the right, there is more separation here
so... the spot where we stand is very, very important in photography
it can make or break the image
so what I'm trying to do here is, more or less,
to align the lights with these lines in the in the frame
something like this, so they are more in balance
we can also keep in mind that these lights are showing the top, that are pointing to the right
so maybe we want to leave more empty space here as well
I don't know, something like that
In the end, we shouldn't overthink our compositions very much
I believe that we should go with our gut
and whatever feels right, whatever feels good, we should capture it
don't try to look for a reason of why that is, just capture it
and you can do the reasoning afterwards, or someone else will do it for you
going with your gut is very important, and key to photography
okay, I'm trying to get that tree with the tower in the background
that probably won't work as I was expecting it
I'm trying to use the tower as the background for the tree, but this is not the right angle
hopefully you can see what I was trying to do
to capture the tree and the tower as the background
I don't want any of the sky
but not quite right
maybe I can crop it in post
I'm just gonna take it
it needs to be higher too
yeah, that's probably not going to work
but again, you just gotta try it and go for it
it's kind of nice
so I'm shooting wide open with this lens, at 1.4
there is not much in focus
but I like that, with the combination of the fog
so I have to choose in this composition what is that is going to be in focus
either the grass here, or those flowers
I think those flowers are the right choice, and also I'm going to leave them
on the left of the frame, so they stand out even more
so the viewer knows where to look for something that is in focus
maybe like that
it's hard to find the right angle here
that might be nice
so the gate is closed, it's not going to open for another hour and a half, at least
if they open at all on saturdays
so never mind, I guess
all right, I think there could be some potential here
that's a viewpoint, but of course there is nothing to look at today
and maybe we can show that, somehow
I'm not sure how much of the foreground I want to show
that's why I'm gonna take... like this...
leaving a lot of empty space on the top
and then a little bit less
and yet a little bit less
and then, I can decide later which one looks better
I'm not sure why but the gopro is giving me a really hard time now
it's not recording for more than a few seconds, and then it stops
so I just wanted to show you, I've been working on that scene up there
I think I made a couple of nice images
hopefully they work
still recording? good
and I just wanted to share this amazing view that we have here today
pretty amazing, with all these thick fog
I love it
so this lens might be a little bit too tight for this shot, but
going lower
here
I don't know
okay, that's another nice frame there
I don't love the fence there, kinda destroys the mood of the image
but what can you do?
you see, one thing I had never tried was to get
the shot that I talked about earlier, with a long lens
and it might be interesting, actually
I like that
we have the tower on the right, and we have this...
I guess another tower, a smaller one, on the left
and that kind of creates very nice lines converging on the top
I like that
well, that was nice of them, they stopped the car for me to take the photo
well, I'm feeling good, I'm happy with what I've gotten so far this morning
it's nothing groundbreaking, they are not amazing images
but they are new ways to see a place that is very familiar to me, this castle
and I did it by just simply switching to a different focal length of that I'm
used to using here
as I said, I always try to use the wide-angle lens here to fit everything in the frame
but sometimes, all you gotta do is just embrace the tightness, I guess
I don't know, man
that's a little bit probably too much stuff in the frame, maybe
these images are probably too full, there is too much stuff
it's filling the whole frame, and it's not necessarily something I like most of the time
but they might work here
this angle is way better, yeah
there you go
let me show you, I'm working in a very tight space here
I can't go farther back, so this is all I can do
I'm gonna take another shot to make sure
I got it
there you go
so the fog has cleared up quite a bit now
there are still plenty of images to be made out here, but I'm gonna call it a video
I think it's been enough, and it's gonna be long enough already
I'm also heading back home, I haven't had any breakfast, I'm starving
but I hope you enjoyed the video
thank you so much for watching, and see you in the next one!