What's up, guys? Welcome back to another YouTube video.
It's 5 o' clock in the morning, I'm currently at Clapham Station,
I'm getting the train to Waterloo, I'm going to meet up with a friend.
I knew her through Instagram, I haven't met before so this should be fun.
Then we're gonna wander out the London Eye,
South Bank area of London, and we're gonna see what we can get for sunrise.
The weather forecast is looking pretty good,
so I'm thinking that we should get some nice clouds as well, some golden light this morning.
Let's go get on the train and see what we can get!
I'm gonna be up London for the next couple of nights,
got a few locations planned, including the London Eye...
Tower Bridge, China Town,
maybe St. Paul's as well if I can
and I'm gonna vlog it all and I'm gonna show you as well, so I look forward to that.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm just about to cross Westminster Bridge,
and then I'm gonna meet Rafa at Whitehall Gardens on the other side.
I've never been there,
but she says it's completely opposite the London Eye
so...
We're gonna shoot sunrise over there.
Big Ben's still got the scaffolding around it.
Still got its clothes on.
It was covered in scaffolding when I left for Australia in November 2018.
So I don't know if it's under construction again,
but apparently it's supposed to be done and ready for New Year,
so we'll see.
There she is.
- You alright? - Hi, you?
- I'm good, you? - Actually I don't know I just said hi.
It's alright. You've been waiting a moment, didn't you?
So how are you on camera?
Hello!
Just arrived...
opposite the London Eye.
Gonna get the camera out, gonna get the tripod out,
see what it looks like, do a long exposure.
Show you later, that sort of thing.
This spot is looking pretty good. Across the river over there...
there's the London Eye.
Getting some good shots, some detail shots, so I'm gonna head over to...
There's a shot over on the bridge over there that I wanna get, that everyone gets.
So as you can see, the sun is just coming up over the horizon now
and then we'll see what happens. This is a very unflattering angle.
The sun is up now, it's 7 o' clock.
The sun is coming through the London Eye, it's gonna be a bit bright but you can see it.
Raf is over there doing her thing.
We're gonna head over to the bridge in a minute as well,
and I'll talk to you when I'm on the bridge.
The light is okay,
it's not the best, it's nothing special,
I wish there were clouds in the sky to make it look a little nicer,
but maybe I'll have to come back again another time,
we'll come back at night as well, that would look pretty cool.
In the meantime, we're gonna head further down the bridge and try to get a minimalist shot,
and then we'll go back and I'll show you all these photos when they're edited.
I've just finished getting all the shots that I was planning to get at the London Eye,
I'm gonna get any more here now. The light is okay,
but the sun is getting a little bit higher now,
getting a little bit harsh as you can see from my face probably
so we're gonna look at some breakfast and then I'm gonna go back and dump all this footage.
I'll see you at breakfast!
And welcome back home! But wait,
This isn't his desk, no! This is a throwback to the first video.
I thought I'd try and switch up the angle a little bit,
make a little bit more interesting.
What I dearly need is a nice area to sit down and film my talking heads stuff,
but I just don't have the space in the apartment nor I have the money right now for the lighting,
which is crucial. So what I do instead is I sit...
Big window
and use the natural light that comes through there...
To film myself.
This was a while ago now that I was actually in London,
but I did get some really cool photos this morning.
The sunrise wasn't as perfect as I like it to be,
I wish there were more clouds in the sky, but you know, you can't win every time.
I just have to go back again another day.
So let's talk about the images that I really like from this one.
The first image that I really wanna talk about is this one from the London Eye.
It looks just perfect.
I changed the colours a bit as you can see in the sky to make it stand out a little bit more.
But that bird is real and it was just good luck timing,
when it flew into the frame and I had the perfect shutter speed to get cinematic motion blur.
And I think it looks awesome, especially in conjunction with the lights
along the road of houses along the bottom.
Yeah I really like this photo actually.
The second shot that I wanna talk about is the shot of a London bus.
I used the lamppost on the bridge to frame this and added a little bit of depth.
I stood there and waited for another 5 minutes for the bus to turn up,
and it actually stopped here at the traffic lights which was perfect for me.
I snapped this and this was the edit and I really really like this photo as well.
It's a bit different for me, I'm not really much of a city shooter or an urban shooter,
but I do wanna get better at it.
I'm primarely a landscape and nature photographer,
so this is new to me and I'd love some feedback on this as well,that would be awesome.
The final photo that I wanna share with you is this street shot
of this woman walking along the bridge next to the London Eye.
The lighting was awesome, I put a ton of orton effect on this
to bring out that glow of the sunrise.
And I really like it, I like all the leading lines that lead towards her,
I really liked to sort of frame that subject up in the centre there.
So yeah, I really consider myself to be a beginner street photographer.
I really like this photo, I'm quite happy with how it turned out
and I think that I can only improve from here, so let's do that.
Just quickly, like in the last video, I'll just show the other photos that I took this morning.
Some of them good, some of them bad,
some minimalistic ones in there that I really like as well,
but yeah, I think it's really successful and it was great out to meet with Rafa as well.
The thing with Instagram is being able to connect and network and meet out with other photographers.
It's probably the most interesting and the most beneficial part
as you grow and progress further using the app and your skills.
So with that all done, thank you very much for watching.
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