Hello we're straight into it today I was planning to talk about seascape
photography today but something absolutely amazing has happened. Every
now and again when you're out doing landscape photography the conditions just
produce something just utterly utterly amazing and that has happened right now. If I
spin around this way what is happening over at that cliff at the moment is just
simply incredible it's one of the most amazing things I have ever seen because
I'm just have to spin around this way because I want to keep looking at it
It's actually quite emotional it's just....
I'm lost for words a little bit. I've literally just
jumped out the car it's just on top of that hill there. I jumped out the car and I
could see this developing .........well it's just it's mind-blowing absolutely
mind-blowing. The UK today is just blanketed in blue skies basically it's a
beautiful day where I live in Yorkshire it was about 30 degrees when I left. Here at
the coast it's got down to about 18 degrees and
there's just this bank of cloud just being held off by this high pressure
about half a mile out to sea as we spin round to the cliffs over there the warm
air from the land and a colder air from the sea are just colliding
right on the cliff face and that cloud is just rising up the cliff face just
producing something utterly utterly magical so....
Oh i'm lost for words
Now I've composed myself a little bit it's important at times like this to
actually capture the shot these things don't happen very often they're
once-in-a-lifetime moments sometimes you've got to get it right and you've
got to capture it so that is what I'm now going to try and do there's only one way
to do this really or one lens to use for this and that is the 70-200 there is
also a little boat bobbing about in there as well which is just adding to
the scene a little bit maybe it may not I'm gonna capture it with and without
the boat hopefully if the boat moves out the way but I'm in at 200 pretty much
because all the interest is in on those cliffs as that cloud is rolling in the
light is low it's about 8 o'clock now so we're about an hour and a half away from
sunset so the Sun is quite warm already and as it's casting its light onto
those tops of those clouds it's creating some really interesting contrast between
sort of highlights on the top of the cloud and then the shadow that's sort of a bit
lower down but then you come down again in the Sea's then lit up and it's just it
is it's magical I don't feel my words are doing it justice but I've gone for
f8 because I'm just right focusing in on the distance there or in the background
there and I'm just wanting to get that as sharp as possible
I have manual focused. The edge of the cliff is just poking out of the cloud
and that's just adding actually more interest to the image because then you
can actually see that it is a cliff and that's also what I'm focusing on is that
point because the cloud is so soft that I'd struggle to see it when I manual
focusing so it's given me a point to really focus in on I'm currently at one
five hundredth of a second because that Sun is very bright
the clouds are bright white so that shutter speed needs to be a little bit
higher I've got a circular polarizer on the front as well
ISO 100 quite obviously. As the cloud's hitting that cliff face is then curving
around and almost creating a wave as well it's just it's fantastic absolutely.....
let's do another one let's get there let's get the shot one thing I forgot to
mention it's the little things that count when you're doing this because
like I said don't want to muck it up I do not want to muck it up so the Sun is
pretty much in front of me and to the left a bit so as you can see if we come
around a bit the sunlight is right on the lens
despite having the lens hood on. The beauty of these
long lenses those you can get your hand in front so just get the shot and you
can just block it like that and you're not gonna then gonna get any flare I
think, I think I've got the shot ,I think I have. What a magical moment
If you're one of the people that doesn't like the b-roll then you're in luck
today because I have forgotten the drone
right so I'm gonna go down to the beach I think because that cloud has now cleared
off the cliff and it's pushing out the sea as well so we might end up with
a spectacular sunset now as well.... great day!
Right i'm down onto the beach now and I'm set up and I'm taking a second shot
.....I still haven't quite recovered from that first one it was amazing but I want to
get a couple more shots because I think I've still got an opportunity to capture
something here I think with this high altitude cloud there's gonna be some
color after sunset as well, I'm gonna try and stick around till well after sunset
to find the color I'm trying to make the most of the last of the light at the
moment the tide is going out and as its receding it's leaving this beautiful
unspoiled flat sand with these little puddles as the water's draining back into
the sea and it's just capturing the light really nicely as its come..... as the
light's coming in from the side providing some beautiful leading lines into the
sea and then there is already actually a little bit of color in the sky which I'm
capturing in the image as well I'm fairly wide, I'm at 35 millimetres
because I want to get as much of this detail in the sand and the
reflections off that water. I want to get as much of that in the shot as possible so
I'm at 35 millimetres I've then got the horizon on the top rule of thirds
pretty straightforward image f11 iso 100 and then shutter speed of about 4
seconds I've got the 6 stop ND filter on the front I don't want to go any
longer than that because the tripod is sinking into the sand very slowly so I
would lose a bit of sharpness in the image but I'm happy with what I've got
so let's just get that once more as that light is warming up even more. Yeah I mean
that is another pretty nice shot...I'm happy with that.
it is also a very good test of the f-stop sukha bag and it's waterproof
abilities, particularly because this sand is very wet
I wanted the bag next to me though just to make life a bit easier so if it gets
wet and soaks through.....we'll see, I don't think it will, i'm confident.... confident.
Right so i'm setup for the last shot of the day and these days on the beach when
it's like this are just magical especially once it gets to this time in
the summer about half-past nine and there is literally nobody else on the
beach so it's very peaceful. Just a great moment, a great moment personally and
just gives you that time to think and enjoy such a beautiful landscape
especially when the photography has been good you've got a couple of good
seascape shots in the bag and another one to come, just fantastic and I'm still
not quite recovered from that first shot yet so great day great day all round but
I do have one more shot to capture I'm hoping this sky is going to catch really
really nicely I've got the camera low down into the sand and all I'm trying
to do with this shot is just maximize the amount of color because the
water is receding into the sea and it's just creating beautiful reflections off
the sand and as the sky continues to fill with color it's just looking
absolutely amazing so I've got that water on the sand in the foreground I've
then got the cliffs that you can see behind me there in the mid ground and
then we're gonna go up into that sky to capture what is hopefully going to be a
beautiful sunset it's quite yellow now hopefully some pinks and purples and
things will enter into it as well just to make a beautiful colorful image to
end this day. Settings wise I'm at about 20 millimetres just to get nice and wide
to get as much color in there as possible I'm at f11 and then I've got a
shutter speed of around 4 seconds I'm bracketing two stops either side as
well with the 6 stop ND on the front just to get that nice bit of color and make
sure I get exposure right with that bracketed image. Yeah just great really
ISO 100 quite obviously very straightforward but I think it's gonna
be really nice I'm just gonna grab another one increase the exposure a little bit as
it starts to get darker and just let the
camera do its thing I'm gonna wait around until the end to make sure I get
as much color in this image as I possibly can, I don't miss it.
Yes.....Yes.... what a good day I hope you've enjoyed it, comment down below, subscribe,
like, do whatever you need to do and I'll see you on another one very very soon I'm
Adam this is first man photography in the beautiful Sandsend.... out!!!
oh my god I thought I was done but I'm not. Look at this.... one of the most amazing
things I've ever seen
look at the clouds on that cliff I've got a little video time-lapse going
but just look at that