Hello and welcome to another day of landscape photography. I'm up very very
early again. Two sunrises in a row but I've come here to Blee or Blea Tarn in
the Lake District. I was here yesterday doing a workshop so I thought I'd get up
early and come out and make the most of what has turned out to be an absolutely
stunning morning it is worth getting up out of bed now and again but
I don't know if you can see that pink streak in the sky behind me that is what
I'm capturing so I've already set up for the first shot I've captured a couple
already and I'm just using the stones in the foreground here, the tarn, the
mountains and that sky in what is a very straightforward composition I'm close to
the carpark so there's other photographers around it's not going to
be a unique shot by any means but that sky and the effort of getting out this
morning will improve the image beyond a few other people's just a little bit so
it is gonna be a nice shot I'm not overly excited about it but a great way
to start the day so after that we're then gonna have a little trek up to the
mountains a bit I've got my friend with me again today so we're gonna have some
fun with the drone as well the shot here is straightforward like I said f/16 because I'm
quite close to these rocks, shutter speed about three and a half seconds I'm
bracketing just to make sure I get the exposure I don't need to but I'm tired I
don't want to have to think about it too much
ISO 100 and it's getting a nice long exposure just to smooth out the water
just a little bit and it's gonna make the most of that color in the sky as
well so, I'm glad i'm out, it's a nice start of the day hopefully the day will continue
to be good
Okay so I'm set up for the second shot of the day I've woken up a little bit
now after the hike up halfway up the side of this small craggy Mountain so
it's a very straightforward shot again well I say that very straightforward
because usually with sunrises you're gonna get your best shot at the start of
the day and I think that is gonna be the case for me today the way I then use a
day like this if I am staying out all day is to hone your skills hone your
skills in making the most of where the light is making the most of composition
because it takes the pressure off you when you already
know you've got a really good shot in the bag and that's the case for me today
so I'm just gonna work up a few compositions and really try and make the
most of the light I've got here I've got the light hitting the mountain over here
but then all this area behind me is still in shadow so I've still got the Canon 17-40mm
lens on here and I am essentially just using the area that's
lit up by the sunlight there because that's where the interest is at in this
image I like to pay attention to where the light is and then sort of focus down
on that because the some golden light like I have at the moment just
transforms an image and just takes it up to another level what I'm doing here is
I'm using the shadow line of the mountain, at this side, this
shadow line you can sort of see here I'm using that just to lead you in to the
image and then I'm focused back down on Blea Tarn and just getting that nice
morning contrast that's in the mountain behind me there and I'm in at 40
millimetres as far as that lens will go I don't really need to go in any further
than that because I'm then filling the frame mostly with that light I've then
got some trees in the bottom left-hand corner which are just adding a nice
little bit of interest in there as well overall fairly interesting image for
this time of day and for where I am and just really making the most of the
conditions I have here. Settings wise I'm at f/11, I've got a little bit of the hill in
the foreground I may adjust that a little bit though but f/11 and then I've
got a shutter speed oh I don't know what I'm at 1/20th of a second, ISO 100
as always with my landscape shots and then it's straightforward as that. You
may have also noticed today that I have started including some slow-motion
footage I'd love to hear down in the comments what you think of the
introduction of a bit of slow-mo footage I think it's good I think it adds a lot
to sorry I'd love to hear what you think down below in the comments
So we've hiked up the mountain and I am set up for my third shot of the day this is
sort of highlighting the problem you have when shooting in the Lake
District or mountainous regions with this kind of light so I've got a nice
composition using this dry stone wall to lead me in to the craggy Mountain at the
top and then I've got the little more distant mountains behind that there's
also a lovely little tarn ... or a big puddle really at the bottom here
which is forming a really nice composition. The problem is is the
mountain that I'm stood on, is casting a massive shadow across the foreground so
when you then go up past that shadow line into the crag and the mountains
behind it's a very very harsh contrast for the image and detracts
detracts from image quite a lot but that's a beauty of sunrise type
photography is that you can use these moments or I use these moments to just
find nice compositions a scouting mission as I've said before and really
try and make the composition work so I can come back at another time when the
light is right this is quite an accessible spot as well so there's a high
likelihood of me coming back here and that's the shot I'm going for now all
I'm doing is I'm at f/11 I'm at a shutter speed of 1/25th of a second, ISO 100 and
then with conditions like this it's absolutely vital to bracket it to pull
the detail out of the shadow area and out of the highlights behind as well so
I'll sort of be able to rescue some of the detail out of the shadow in
post-production it's not going to be an amazing image it's still a nice image
though it's still the sort of lake district scenery it's better then a lot
of images are going to be so that's the kind of thing I like to share on social
media just to keep things ticking over it's not going to get into my portfolio
but I'm not ashamed of it and it's still really good being out today so we're now
going to have a little climb up to that crag get some spot-on drone footage and
see where we can go from there.
They call that fat man's anguish apparently
Grrrr
So I'm at the top and what an amazing morning, an amazing feeling of well being
out with a friend, on a morning like this, shooting landscape photography. There is
nothing better and I've got those three hundred........
I was feeling a little bit down this morning
you might have seen that at the start but a day
out shooting, particularly on a beautiful day like this, it's got me right back on
top I've got three decent images in the back hopefully some lovely footage and
I'm feeling very good it's a feeling I wish you could bottle it because if you
could take this with you somewhere life would be good!! Anyway
life is good so leave a comment down below and let me know what you think and
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Adam this is First Man Photography in the Lake District......
Out!!!