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I'm gonna show you how you can photograph three fences as if they were
never there
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and today I come back to the British Wildlife Center
and I'm gonna show you how to take photographs through
fences now this applies to whether you're visiting a wildlife park or maybe
or you just visiting
a sporting event and this in fencing in the way the same thing applies
on both situations so for civil war you can to photograph up against the fence
could if I try and take a picture of our
little can't hear and I say cactus at the Scottish Wildcat it's a
team really vicious despite looking really cute
you apparently it's not but you can see in the picture there are laid a barge
going across their the blurry lines in the picture
it's just not going to work so there's a couple tips to get better
shots through fences the first one is which but offense to actually shoot 3
we'll see some offense is in shade and other bits on offense
are in Sun you wanna shoot through the shady parts of the fence
okay so pick your defense festival and fine i shady area to work in
next your gonna decide on the lands
and you want to use the longest lens that you own that will actually focus on
the the subject
so I'm using my 70-300 millimeter now
this lens does have a slight downside it minimum focal length: isn't that good
it's is quite a distance away so
I may find myself swapping to my 24-105
we'll see how we go
next thing a is the aperture you're going to use now in only one leading
wildlife between only 1i reason would that the field but in this case we use
the reason we get the field
these bars are just gonna come at even sharper that's not gonna work so you
want to really go for very small debt the failed
it's a long lens smooth at the failed you can already see a slight flaw in the
problem if you're the sort of it over here that likes to use wide-angle big
then this may not be the ideal time to take your wildlife photographs
hey we're in a year Wildlife Park
a as do where in a place where we have restricted access but we're still gonna
get
the best photographs weekend here on location on
site next thing to do is to go is close to the bars as you can
if I try and take a picture from back here me up take a little
pitcher and I can still see the bar yes they are blurry because I'm using a
smooth at the failed but
they're still most definitely there whereas if I go closer
up the bars disappear
has as the Scottish Wildcat it that it
net when you're looking 30 var be fined
tryin and look for the gap in the bars now and that sounds daft could you very
close but
these little holes are actually quite small either probably less than an inch
in square size but nonetheless when I'm zooming in looking through
has i mean the camera just a little tiny bit sometimes I'll be more aware the
Bowers than others
so just a little bit a camera movement can just give you that age
when you're looking through fences
so you may notice they do something a little bit unusual about my lines today
it has
aayo a funny end as you want two things here that can work really well if you're
photographing
through fences first is an ultraviolet or protection filter
I always use these filters on my lenses but I always use the ones with the
anti-reflection coating
he's the man out anti-reflection coating they are nowhere near as good
and actually can causing more problems than they solve reason I'm using
here is because I'm gonna be pushing my lens right up against the bars
by push my hands against the bar there is a slight chance
I might scratch the lands I'd rather scratch a protection filter
if I had to scratch something but for about braces I'm also using this rubber
lens hood as well and this little things brilliant
it not only does it cut out the the flare from this really rather bright day
but also it means I can push it flat
downs at noon time nice and flat I can push that
robber against the at the fence again give me a little
extra protection
now much as we love to think that just by following set the rules you gonna get
a perfect photograph guess what and it doesn't always work so despite following
all the rules easiest
mood aperture number going really clases evening in finding a whole
all the other tips I'm just giving you a sometimes it doesn't work sometimes you
still have
a problem with your pitch it sometimes gets the worm ringing effect around the
edge
particular very small mash like that they worry
try again and keep taking photographs and we take
more chance you're gonna get it right
so my last hippie isn't really photographic it's just practical
this fence its here for a reason
and banker shutting your fingers through there because he you need your fingers
in
little Scottish Wildcat may look at the quite tame friendly but trust me
he would have nothing is off given half a chance maybe been easy integration but
I'm not gonna find out
and if there's two fences well that's probably for an even more dangerous
creature if you're going to a zoo
and you're photographing Lions then cross over the first fence to get to the
second one
just be sensible we want you to be able to take more photographs next week
and not have this is your final ever photograph oh yes
scary-looking wild foo
terrifying there
the really tell me that is a scary animal
gonna come in a straight day
by I
well I decided that going in striking the Scottish Wildcat was probably not a
good idea
but let's have a look at one of the images I shot and run through
a quick edit but when I did so when you get your images
into raw or into fetish operator Lightroom you sometimes find that you
think your friends
you don't always get to see the whole thing correctly on the back at the
camera
and sometimes you can find its offense just creeping in or even just the shape
love the fence on the blurry areas of the pitcher
possibly see a almost square just there
now that perfectly normal and sometimes the the fixes re simple
just get the crop tool and remove the bits that you don't wanna see say
and I can still see a little bit there I'm gonna crop it in something like
that said there's my crop the rest to the adjustments
are gonna be well no more than just normal adjustments to the pitch eso
for example an eight-week the white balance a little bits in maybe pull back
the highlights in
open up the shadows and of course I'm gonna put some clarity in here as well
now when I but clarity on 3rd it works really well
but it doesn't work so well on the out a focus for so
what I want to do is just for clarity here onto the face
so incentive applying clarity with the slider
I'm just gonna get the adjustment brush and I was gonna die lane
plus 50 I'm gonna paint in my own clarity
just where I wanted just something like that that applies clarity
only way I want it and its nowhere else affect
I can open up the image leave row behind
and bring the picture into Photoshop because I want to do two more things
that a
just a little bit harder to do in raw and much easier to do in Photoshop
first one is just a toned down his green area
especially in the top right corner have to do it I'm any use liar
new adjustment layer and hugh saturation
now this allows me to be very specific about what colors
I'd change because if I change from master I can choose reds yellows greens
%ah that's what we want okay on the greens but is this green area
actually Green well the way to find out is to get the eyedropper tool
get the first one and then I'm just gonna click on the green that I want to
change
and I find out actually know that technically a yellow
but that's why you do this with the eyedropper tool just a sample the right
color
then I'm just gonna get the saturation
and we'll bring the saturation four that Green's tracheal a damn it
and with just the lightness as well but if you look really closely at the
picture
when I adjust the sliders yes that green changes
but said it was the face for the Scottish Wildcat so we gonna do this
well let's put it around out there is a setting but we gonna do it said only
affects that green area at the back
and not the face now his the beauty event a an adjustment layer
it comes with a lion mask a standard what I need to do is just get my
paintbrush
make church lady with black and I can paint in the camera
and return it I'm asking away the effect
okay so that's pretty much done let's go in there with the other problem
I'll take on the actual photographs and that the active liar and I was in a bit
over these blades of grass that I'm not quite a keen on sale removing things in
a photograph normally
I'll go with the spot heating brush that might go to 20 the
the number one feature how to use whenever I want Klein know he'll
trouble is it doesn't work very well if things are after focus
and it doesn't work very well if things are right on the edge of the frame
guess what that swings happy where this paragraph C is right on the edge
and a bit how to focus so in that case our switch to the good old fashion clone
stamp tool
and we need to do is just sampling area and just painted in
as often a good idea just to move the sample point around a little bit every
now and again to say to end up with a
completely repeating patton and his blend in the times like that
and then we need to do is repeat it for the other but a graph is bothering me
which is this one
right here and this one's a bit harder cuz we have some whiskers
and if you're a purist than what I'm gonna do may upset you slightly because
I'm gonna remove some other whiskers
I will just sample an area of the picture the has some whiskers
and then we can just kind of paint that area in like sci
just high up underneath it and they go
the affect is seamless you can see where the grass was
at all but that completes my picture and my edit
at the Scottish Wildcat
well it's been brilliant taking photographs here at the British Wildlife
Center in saree
I had a great time and got some wonderful photographs along the way as
well
now if you wanna see more videos by myself and the other present is here on
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