Where can I stop for a pee? Gavin's got a tiny English bladder and he needs to go wee-wee
So go ahead and talk to me because you're being filmed from all angles now
This is not appropriate filming!
This better be a long one, too
Because if it's just a couple of drops now, I'm gonna be very disappointed in you guys still going not bad
25 seconds.
How many shakes is 'playing with yerself'?
More than three
Think I got some on me sandals
You got jackets and stuff? I'm guessing it's gonna be cold up there.
Yeah, I've got appropriate Footwear which is flip-flops, yeah
So I'm here in Moab, Utah. In my Vehicle. I have Mike Taylor
Astrophotographer extraordinaire and in the back. I've got Rafael from photo pills the bard.
We've got Thomas Heaton
We've got Ryan Smith and David Akoubian so the whole bunch of us on Thomas Heaton's idea
We're gonna go to the La Sal mountains to see if we get some gorgeous fall colors
His aspen trees? Aspen's! To get us there and to get us back Mike Taylor has brought some
'Trail Lube'. Wanna show us that trail lube Mike?
This is the first day though. That conference is finished
It's the first chance we've had to go out and shoot as a group with just the instructors
So hopefully we're gonna have a blast and we're gonna get some good pictures
And if we don't have a blast we're gonna get blasted or both all at the same time
So Mike what has been the highlight for you on this this conference?
meeting you
Yeah, pretty much. I've been doing this for a few years
So I'm pretty sure I know where the Milky Way is going to be
but if I'm in a new spot, and I really want to try to figure out
What time to be there that kind of thing then the augmented reality?
On iOS....
so...5 years improving that. Five years you were thinking about this a long time ago Rafael
What's this man?
That is what is affectionately known in Canada as sh@t tickets
Yeah I think it's....... partially used....
Also known as Mountain currency
And so off to the mountain we headed. Tom said he'd been and checked out this location a few days earlier
And he was keen to get back there after this fresh dusting of snow
In all my years of visiting Moab, I'd never ventured into the mountains that often feature as a backdrop to my images
So I was excited to see this.
In just 45 minutes. We reached Warner Lake campground where Mike made sure we all had some trail lube.
So I'm up here in the foothills of the La Sal mountains in Moab
It's a spot that I've never been to before because usually you go there to shoot the arches and the rocks
So this is quite a nice departure from all of that red
we've got snow up here. It just snowed in the last few days and it's this massive dusting of snow on everything which contrasts beautifully
with the bright yellow Aspen's. But this is kind of like my
This type of photography's my Achilles heel, like I'll go into the forest and I'll I literally can't see the wood for the trees
It's very hard to find a composition
So what you kind of do is stroll around and you wait for the light to hit a particular section and that usually dictates
Where you're going to shoot?
So right now I'm shooting this fence
Simply because it's got these backlit Aspens in the background and I like that contrast especially with the snow
So I'm trying a few shots. I'll show you what I got if it turns out to be any good
Well, the light was good and the colors were great, but it wasn't much of a composition
So I went in search of bigger fish and it didn't take me long to find a killer shot
Well, this has turned out quite pretty. I was struggling at first to find the wood for the trees
You know a shot that reveals itself
Walked around it did a whole loop didn't quite find anything
And then just as I got to the other side of this pond here , I don't know if it's a lake
look at this Gorgeous bit a light on this peak the reflections the way that the Sun is hitting that Ridge of Aspen's there.
Absolutely gorgeous. So as you can see crazy high dynamic range, so
I'm gonna bracket my shots and I always bracket my shots manually
are you gonna walk into my shot right now? Hey everyone. This is Chris Smith from the
Out of Chicago conference, right. We just finished out of Moab. Now, we're shooting this beautiful scene. So I've just framed up this gorgeous shot
I've got this beautiful little space all to myself. It's super tranquil. I've got this gorgeous reflection. I'm bracketing. I'm gonna get this
Picture
Great Shot!
Well, it looks like I must have chosen a good spot because look at all this riffraff that's just showed up
I've got a full tripod penetration right there
Got Chris got Mike Taylor Ryan, Ryan. You're gonna get right in front of me
Sure!
This is a good spot.
Actually thought they were joking but look at this
Unbelievable, how is an artist of my calibrr expected to work under these conditions?
David you might as well come and join us and get a fivesome going.
Is this Mesa Arch right now????
So this is the problem when you shoot with other photographers and you commit yourself to one shot
I'm bedded down now, and I'm kind of trapped in this one spot
Then all these guys are getting all these killer shots in the background
I'm wishing I'd brought my second camera my second tripod, but I haven't so
bollocks
Cheers Guys!
It's funny because all of my videos have drinking in them. People are gonna be thinking I'm an alcoholic!!
You're not????
By the way, if you fancy coming out and shooting on location with me, I'm leading a workshop in the Faroe Islands
Hope to see you there. Okay back to the video. Oh and like and subscribe if you would
So as usual, I've spent the bulk of my time here shooting out a wider scene
But it's always important to remember those those tighter crops those longer
focal lengths that really pick out those details and this
copse of
Aspen's is really catching this afternoon light in a pleasing way. So I'm using a much longer focal length
I'm using a zoom lens and I'm isolating a detail. That's
Beautiful and contrasting and colorful completely different to my shot earlier
It's always good to remember to to look at things from a totally different perspective
Strap on a different piece of glass and try and get at least one other shot
So I'm pretty much done here up at Warner Lake
We're all gonna head back to the car park get in the cars
Head back to Moab up and then pick a beautiful spot for sunset. So hopefully we'll get some more killer shots
Handgun
Are you getting some good shots Chris? Are you recording this? Yeah. Yes. I'm getting great shots. They're amazing. Yeah
I mean, yours were OK too. Are they better than mine? Yours were fine I said.
We got a lot of the same instructors coming back some new instructors. It's gonna be awesome
But yeah, this is great to get out with some amazing landscape photographers in these great locations
What kind of stuff is it gonna be astro sunrise sunset? What is it? So we're going to the full moon
So not so much astro. Yeah, although that may be a different event at some point
Yeah different out of something I would get out of this world