what's up guys i'm up early for first
sunrise shoot here on the coast of wales
let's go
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so remember back in venice beach when i
used trover the app trover to shoot
street photography or to find street art
within the city well here in wales i'm
doing the exact same thing except for
instead of street art i'm finding
landscapes so from my hotel just down in
pembroke i literally opened the app
today and just searched around and
within like 10 miles i found this place
called the green bridge of wales which
actually looks like a really really cool
landscape photography location so it's
cold this morning but i'm up to take
some pictures
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so i'm on location in the spots really
really cool but there's really heavy
backlight right now so i'm trying to
fight it a bit i've got this setup over
here 16 to 35 and i've actually got two
grad filters i've got a four stop medium
grad nd and a three stop hard grad nd so
seven stops a light out of the sky i'm
getting some vignetting but i don't
think that's anything i can't fix in
post i'm using like a bit of the
foreground here just to you know frame
the image a little bit and there's lots
of drama in the sea and i think this is
actually coming out pretty cool
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this always seems to happen oh the sun
just came up i was gonna shoot that but
i'm too late um this always seems to
happen there's got the epic stuff that
way and terrible light and you've got
this kind of average scene this way but
epic light so i've got the camera
pointing the wrong direction shooting
this fence line and coastline getting
that sky and it's it's an okay image but
i should be shooting that so i'm gonna
stop talking to you and shoot that
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what a really really really cool
location and even better than the
location maybe was there were some cool
photographers there to hang out with and
chat with i love that aspect of
photography especially landscape
photography coming to a location first
thing in the morning it's cold and then
there's just people to hang out with
strangers to become friends with love
that and yeah now i'm just gonna look
around at some other spots here
trying to see if there's another
location maybe for the morning or
something like that
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this is incredible incredible here i'm
gonna try to be quiet and slow but
there's these sea stacks here and
they're covered with these birds at
first i thought it was just like bird
poo but literally it's black and white
like penguins out here and just covered
i'm gonna get the long lens out and try
to show you guys what i mean
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like a waterfall in my head
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like my favorite
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i want to talk quickly about weather
about weather i just checked the
forecast for this exact location and it
said blue skies with maybe a few clouds
this isn't a few clouds this is an epic
amount of clouds and kind of the
scariest guy in history um this is white
sands this is another location uh that i
found via trover as my trover landscape
photography or i guess seascape
photography
treasure hunt or scavenger hunt
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this place is cool the tide's out right
now obviously but you can see the tides
here in wales are insane the has got all
the way out there and you can tell that
high tide it gets to right here and
that's absolutely nutty this is one of
the places i wanted to check out i'm
guessing it's better at high tide so i
think i'm going to wander around and
have a look
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oh
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like
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so i'm going to show you guys a clip on
the drone right now that i just shot and
you can see this really really cool
landscape like a jagged rock formation
that leads out into the sea i think that
could be a really epic place for a
landscape photo you might remember back
when i was in north devon like a month
or two ago i shot this seascape and the
seascape there
had this similar sort of formation and i
think it could be really really cool i
love those jagged rocks that lead into
the sea
and yeah i think that could be brilliant
but the problem is it's really kind of
cloudy and miserable here so i'm gonna
head on and try to find another location
try to pop another spot into this
location scout and find a different
seascape and i guess if that fails i'll
come back here
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oh you know you're in wales when this
happens where are you guys going
i feel so bad just go to the side of the
road and eat your grass guys it's okay
i'm not gonna run you over i promise oh
my god i'm a herding sheep in whales
oh the owner's gonna be pissed
he's like where are my sheep oh okay
one's escaped
there yeah go no no no no no
guys
just go to the side i won't hit you
oh no now run them into the village
oh the guy this car is about to get
shocked here's a bunch of
bye
that was legitimately one of the
funniest things that has ever happened
in my life
herding sheep in wales
ah too funny i meant um
you know how bad i am at pronouncing
things i met aberretti if that's not
what it's actually called i'm sorry but
this is where i'm gonna shoot
photography the tides are riding rising
like yesterday so hopefully i can get a
couple shots off in time there's these
leading line rocks that i was mentioning
here as well in out already this is
probably a better spot to shoot them too
just because i can get lower to the
ground there's also like uh i don't know
what that is like an old watch tower
some ruins up that way so
i might shoot this first until the tides
get too high and then go try that this
is a cool spot let's take some pictures
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so this is a pretty fun place to shoot
and the tides are actually perfect for
this shot right now they're coming in
quick but right now it's ideal and i
probably only get a couple minutes of
light because there's a giant cloud on
the horizon and right now the sun's
coming through and giving some really
nice warm light some warm backlight
hitting all these rocks now the reason i
like this composition the reason i like
this spot is there's kind of this
balance between really
rough sea and calm sea that's not
getting hit by the waves i'm shooting 30
second exposures at f11 straight into
the sun with a four-stop brad nd a
four-stop medium grad nd and a six stop
nd and i think it's coming out pretty
cool
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there's few places in the world you get
better seascapes than whales this is
just unreal
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this is coming out awesome but despite
it being awesome i want to talk about
the challenges the biggest challenges
you're going to face when shooting
seascape photography are keeping your
feet dry obviously but finding balance
in your images and finding leading lines
i was shooting straight into the
sunlight and it was looking good but now
the sun's disappeared so i'm trying to
find other ways to work and i have that
ruin way up on the hill and i think
that's a really cool shot but all the
lines here as you can probably see
behind me they all lead straight the
opposite direction so
the way i'm balancing that is i'm trying
to find rocks in the foreground that
form almost an arrow leading right to
that and when i'm talking about balance
what i mean is i'm keeping a certain
percentage of the power of an image or
the certain percentage of the capacity
of an image in one part of the image
while also having an equal amount in
another part of the image so my
foreground is like the bottom third of
this image
and i need something to balance that out
it could be sunset in this case it's the
the ruins up there and as a result
by doing those things i think i'm
getting really cool images that are
really visually pleasing
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the rules of photography the rules of
composition aren't sticky rules that you
have to follow but they are definitely
things that you can use to your
advantage if you're struggling a little
bit and seascape photography is not easy
but it can be fun and if you do
everything right and you get lucky with
the right waves in the right situation
it can be really really rewarding
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i'm having a little bit of a battle
within myself now not because i'm
struggling with the images everything's
coming out really nice and maybe that's
part of the problem if i wasn't getting
good images i would sit around here and
wait
but
the tides are starting to rise but i can
see there's like a break on the horizon
and i think the sun might come through
that and light this all up again and
that would be unreal and absolutely
beautiful
but on the other hand i've already
gotten the cool images i've already
gotten the images i wanted so i'm kind
of deciding or trying to decide if i
should go and try something else
and it's kind of the constant battle do
i perfect something or do i try to get
one cool shot and then get another shot
somewhere else
and i don't know what i'm going to do
ah
i have no idea
yeah let's go for a hike let's go see if
we can try something different we got
this shot knocked out gotta have faith
that it's good let's go shoot something
else
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definitely glad i moved this is totally
totally different than it was just down
there and as i hoped the sun's actually
coming through there's actually sun rays
happening that way unfortunately there's
not a lot going on that way over here
though it's really interesting you got
this area here which google maps tells
me is a blue lagoon it looks like it was
once a quarry at some point you've got
that ruin up on the hilltop and you've
got this really interesting rock
formation in the middle here
the problem is
that it kind of blocks the light
so i don't really know what to do with
this because it's one of those places
that's really really cool to look at but
just isn't photographing well i think i
need to once again try to push on and
try to find another spot before the sun
comes out
just came a little bit higher and the
perspective is way better from up here
because the light's not being blocked by
that mound over there and the image is
just balanced better still the same
setup six stop nd and four stop hard or
medium grad nd and i'm gonna shut up now
because i think the lights about to
explode
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the light and the weather is just
changing so quickly on me here that i
think i got a shot there and i am
actually going to try to get another
shot somewhere else i don't think i have
time it's 15 minutes until sunset and i
want to go and see if i can get to that
ruined building over there
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if you were to say bvs how would your
perfect day go that's it that was
phenomenal
sure i would have loved to get like epic
light but that was just such a good day
ah
wales i absolutely love it here
absolutely love the seascapes
love the openness kind of the solitude
the driving everything about it and yeah
i guess that's it that is totally it
this episode was sponsored by trover and
it wasn't just sponsored by trover it
was also helped out by trovers i found
all these locations not using anything
else except for the app and then maybe a
little bit of google maps to try to help
find the perfect spot but
ah
good day and tomorrow i'll be at it
again here in wales i'll see you there
peace