doesn't that
all look lovely going on down there with the nice sky and beach huts and all that kinda stuff
come down here today because I wana talk to you a little
bit more about
using a Lee big stopper filter
now there's two sides to this film really one is about
how to use one now we've already made a film with Tom Mackey which you probably
see,
we fell in love and ate cheese and threw stones in the sea, if you haven't seen it go and
have a look for it
hope you enjoy it but I want to talk to a little bit more in-depth
just take you through the thought process ove
using a big stopper but this thought process runs through
all love photography this is like thinking through
the picture you want to take and the making choices about your camera
settings along the way,
now this is gonna be rehearsed I have
very rarely used my big stopper I have to confess because landscape isn't
something I do a great deal of
so this is a learning curve for me as well wanna do is go around see if I can
find some shots that I think will work
and the talk you through while I think they'll work then you can watch
how I set it up and the questions I asked myself
to get the settings that i'm gonna need so without further ado
expose the we better go and take, hang on, do you know lorna?
you probably met Laura if you've watched many of films
you've probably met Lorna she's modelled in quite a lot of them,
if you've seen the one wit an introduction to flash where i'm talking about bouncing
light and there's a girl
socially soaking wet t-shirt its Lana well today
is Lorna's
Lorna is making her
very first film with us so good luck,
anyway this can take some pictures soon find
okay I found the shot
which I quite like this thorough beach huts over here
I got the dark one on the end we got the cream one on the right to make a nice a
rough cuts against the sky
a windy day like this is bright for big stop because things are moving
the wind is blowing across this way so the clouds up here
in theory when I'm after is a shot with the clouds for blowing across that way
is a dark cloud up here as well which hopefully we'll come across that will be
a lot more noticeable
so let's have a look time actually put I tried put in place already
because you don't necessarily need to watch me doing that how did I find
the place where I want my shot well
well I do it is I will do it by hand and move around
and fine where my shot needs to be but little adjustments to the exposure in
the composition
and resume and all that kinda stuff as I'm looking through the camera then I
found my place
put the tripod into that place and put the camera on it
I already kinda did that for you I'm because you don't be bored watch me do
it
i've a cable release on because the any way to use a big stopper
is with the long slow exposure we want this line is that the exposure
for the movement to the clouds in the sky to blot will contrast against
and the stillness at the beach huts so forty put that on
next it's just
check what we're doing because we want to slow exposure
we can use a small aperture you need to do this in manual mode
I have set my smallest aperture
I with this lens which is f25
let's have a look through the viewfinder
manually check my exposes gonna be a thirtieth the second
should be absolutely finds over 30 the second
f25 I'm using daylight white balance
because I rather than a cloudy money now it's a cloudy day
because easy to warm the picture of the day after was then is to try and remove
some soda gallery nasty color casts
okay rule in place there
I'm using my lowest I so again because someone the shutter speed to be really
really slow
also said to be the nicest colors like the colors in the big house stand out a
bit more
so wanna do now is just take a picture
of the shot as it is so we can have a look at it before and after
so taken that picture now next let put on the big stopper
insect take my lens hood of
my the adapter ring
onto the front to the lens you can get them in all sorts of different sizes to
fit
all your different types of lenses
the guy screw them home
focus saying has to be done before you put
the big stopper on this so dark that the camera cannot
see threesome to focus I mean
define just put that their over the lens you can say
have dark a big stopper its yeah people most blocks
all the lights sounds like a welder's mask
and so the exposure has been sacked also focus needs to be set before you put the
big stop on our already done that
because the cameras would focus won't work for it either of
side the filter holder that comes on
really this kind of took it on the front there
and click into place there we go
slide in the filter
dropped water in the corner that's what I'm hoping isn't going to affect it
because it's right there in the very bottom corner we're getting a fuel
spatters if Rangers starting
this one weather should be pretty good for this sort of shot
cause I can see through won't bother to look
so my exposure was a $30 for the second
big Stoppers come with an exposure calculation chart to
help you calculate from what the camera says
to what it needs because it is removing 10 stops have light
if I get down here on the chart thirtieth gives me
thirty-seconds okay so that will be a 30-second long exposure
we should be enough time for these clouds to move in the sky
hoping they gonna be good enough on her didn't get the dark one that I wanted
nevermind
side let me sets a 30 second exposure
turn the dial you get here we go
all the way to thirty-seconds
I'm I'm gonna use my mirror lockup
to the mirror will jump up and lock out to the Y and finally I want to stop like
getting in the back here
because it's a stray light
good get into the back to the camera
lift-off mara and that could mess up your exposure
know me I have the black tape in the back some cameras have a little thing
that slots on the back
to do that but i cost my many years ago
and I used to keep peace black taken aback but in the bag of
but I've got it so I'm just gonna plug the hole plug out the final with blue
TAC
every day now I know if someone here horrified at the thought of sticking
blue TAC
with the camera's viewfinder trust me it won't hurt it
so a 30 second exposure is set everything is ready to rock and roll
and first click this the Mara
second pic starts the exposure weary now
is wait for 30 seconds during that time
clouds will move through the sky I'm hoping that that
movement will kind of record onto the camera sensor
as a bit of a blur
and we come to the ends guys
to look see we've got no picture
of hmm son's going in again the light is changing all the time
my been quite good the Sun so they've started to come out beginning a fall
short
sis have a look through these LCD's course is the same hard to look at our I
you're in the sunshine are turned into a blind people on the Benny Hill glasses
on
so we look at the first show it's really nice we got nice kinda clean bright
silver shot
with the clouds going on in the sky when we just flick aunts their
the the big stop a shot see how this can also become a blur
they just cant have moved around they come so soft and candyfloss like
I quite like the difference between those two
yeah I quite like this okay bernie &
1 wells we can find
this looks really interesting we got the light coming in from over here the Sun
is coming out
we've got quite a movement going on in the water we got the rocks to ankara
love the glinting on the water to let's see what we can do with the big stopper
we live in a hurry cuz I don't like to change three dozen grasses down here
they gonna come amid
in the bradys move around the move stop at the slow shutter speed is gonna let
that happen
book the city which is kinda moving around
mortars the classical Biggz big stopper
talk to shop the slow exposure show me take one
without the filter so set up my exposure
but chose my composition with the rock here in the crawl San everything going
on over there
looks nice just
shape the lens unceasing into the lie I don't dance lessons
have been putting a shadow over the glass with my hand
we got this in my shop even without the big stopper let's get our Neutral
Density on their
slow everything down that tells me it's a $50 for the sixties for the second
shots a space the filter in
get my calculator
63 the second without
means fifteen seconds with the big Scotland
filter so let's sets fifteen-second exposure
see sup
yeah I wanna to 15 seconds
well as my piece of
trustee blue TAC to stick in the back here to block the be fine I don't like
sneaking in there
15 seconds we're ready to rice
to the shadow over the filter to Sedona get
flak coming off the filter
so I'm gonna hold my hand here and hope that they get my hand
in the shop during these fifteen seconds the sea is moving
the grass is a waving clouds are moving a little bit
and why he got a well that's going on
our exposure is happening in the camera say let's have
book turned into a blind P these days
gotta put these on ball
the like that's nice all that water looks amazing
the difference between the two is really quite exciting
I'm really enjoying this summer experimental
time around what happens
just take your time I shot slowly because the way through them
there's another one to me we just come then hits my favorite it'll be
pressed wrong and I wanted a bowler facing known as freezing cold want to
become a coffee
unfortunately they close we just missed it still never mind this is interesting
hope it's which I think
my work using the movement that you need with a big stop up
here we don't flag fluttering on other wanna take it down so gotta be quick
we got this I'll here the sales is gonna be jabbering in the wind
I really like Beach Cafe Restaurant sign
so first thing find the composition
so lots of bending the knees moving around finding the pictures going to
work
which I've already done and got the camera imposition
so let's just take a picture strain of
a flag against the sky like that i think thats
point nice to manage to a big stopper shop
from for school that's
find our exposure now remember we walk
fairly slow exposure I probably don't wanna go quite as low as I have so many
years
f11 to let me set my exposure up for a 11
that says 160 if the second
f11 side
160 for the second is gonna be
cool look 125th gives us
eight seconds so some leaving 8
and 15 seconds I'm gonna go with the ten-second
exposure site big stopper in place
and also notice have turned the camera up on its side on its and
because just because you're using a big stopper or shooting landscapes or
something
doesn't mean you would have to view camera flat just you know
things a bit differently sometimes so it was a 10 second exposure they are
looking for
swine that down 10 seconds I don't know if this is gonna work this is gonna be
pure
experimentation everything's done
IVP refocused I've switched off the autofocus so that I know the focus can't
move
now I have to do is press the shutter
latest run its course 10 seconds
during those 10 seconds the flags moving the sale
bobbing up and down is probably a little movement going on in the clouds in the
sky
there is here there's also shot
all thank you very much che's appreciate that
no worries thank you nice people know they close the book stack up with cups
coffee
of people like that you so let's have a look
compare the two all like that love the way that flag is
rippling like crazy when we compare it to the faster shutter speed shot
I really kinda like that this to a percent serve movement into it
boo I'm pleased that works I didn't know whether it would or not so don't be
afraid to experiment to be afraid to get things wrong
you know I am get out there if you've got a big stopper
don't have a good I'll play with it hopefully that's given you some insight
into the thought behind it
set your exposure first think your way through it
and come home with three great pictures that you pleased with that you're proud
of that you might wanna put up on the mantelpiece will stick on the wall
running coming home with loads that in knots Akane on
another thing I'm think about where you can a guy who
when you do this than just go out and spend a lotta money on something like a
Lee filter which had a pretty expensive because the good quality
than just buy one thing going to a gravel car park expect exciting pictures
think about where you gonna go where is the likely to be shot with this movement
is one of the reasons we came here apart from the fish say
because I know there's water moving this can be grasses waving flags fluttering
that kinda stuff sorry I I hope that helped