I cannot figure this camera out I need to call Gavin
Leo, what do you think to my new camera bag eh?
it's pretty sweet eh? it's got this little side pocket so you can take your camera out
without having to put the bag down. And look at the colour. Matches my eyes!
What d'you mean it should be pink? Cheeky ss..
Oh hang on, whose this? Oh it's Catherine. Ayup love, how ya doin?
Hey Gavin, what are you up to?
oh just arguing with Leo. he thinks he's the bloody Fashion Police!!!!
Nice, huh... so I just bought a new mirrorless camera
and it is so much more complicated than my iPhone. Do you think you can help me out with some lessons?
Well I could yeah but you know I'm not cheap.
I know you're not cheap. But what if I take you to that really expensive restaurant you like?
oh that might work yeah. Well I tell you what.
get around here tomorrow for 9:00 a.m. we'll go for a day out.
Awesome!
Do you still want me to bring you that hemorrhoid cream for your bum cherries?
bye that's not what it sounds like well it
is actually it's pretty bad.
The issue that I have with Tim Hortons is that the
bread makes me gassy. Oh me too. Yeah? Yeah, awful. So this is gonna smell awful this
drive could be a gas fest so the last time I got Tim Hortons I pulled the back
here it tipped over my fresh hash brown just slid right down the crack of the chair.
I had such a tantrum. Adam was like ''are you all right?'' I was raged. Full enraged but
if you like if you were to look at it it would probably just be like this perfect
hash brown with a little bit of dust I don't think you can decompose well it's
been there three weeks have a look it's still perfectly intact
you could just fish that out and eat it right now. I could, I think I can reach it
hang on
I'd like my hair there that is a three-week-old hashbrown that's been in
my chair crevasse the whole time we eat these horrifying. That's scary as sheeeyyit!
This is my friend Catherine and the reason why she's over on Vancouver Island today
is because she wants to try out photography landscape photography and
she has the sony a6000 mirrorless camera which is pretty old now and she wants
some tips on how to use it how to get a killer shot and I'm gonna make you a
promise all right if we get good light the place that we're going to today I
can guarantee you're gonna get a perfect shot awesome I can't wait now have you
brought a sturdy tripod yes
YOU LIAR! I found like a super deal in the source I think was like $20 but the
review said it was like dynamite. (gasping chuckle) a $20 tripod that crap
is going to over my knee it's not worthy of the camera being on that crap tripod.
Your borrowing mine. We'll lend you a proper tripod.
My earlier prediction of a gassy
Drive was proven to be somewhat accurate so
(Questionable bum shout).....
Gavin! What? Seriously??? No so yeah circular polariser that's that's all you need in
God it smells like a nightmare in here.
Turns out, I wasn't the only one to be suffering from a highly vocal clay pipe.
(catastrophic shart)....
Did you?.....
No..
No?
We're good to go.
I just imagined it?
Yep. Absolutely.
Amphitrite Point in Ucluelet is my happy place
I always feel relaxed and at peace listening to those West Coast waves and
I love the trail because it features loads of super gnarly cedar trees it
really is a landscape photographers paradise and if you're lucky enough to
get good light you are guaranteed an epic shot,
all right I'm ready to take my shot it's too early look at this look how ugly that light is it's fugly I
don't want to miss my moment it's a beautiful scene at the moment is five
hours away at least we're waiting for that Sun we get all over there and then
it'll paint these sea stacks with some gorgeous orange side light that's when
we take the shot list this is premature...............
I knew you couldn't resist it. Of course I can't. We're not even drunk!
So I see your fancy tripod you're lending me has levels on it?
yeah kind of one of the golden rules of photography you always want your tripod
oh well it's nice to have the actual tripod and the ball head itself
perfectly level just in case you're doing a panel and you kind of sweeping
across the scene and every shot will then be level but if I wouldn't if
you're not doing a panel it's not vital because often the camera will have a
level inside it so you don't even need to eyeball that you can just kind of
look at the digital level and then get your camera level and take the shot what
five hours yeah I mean it's a gorgeous place but light is unusable what are we gonna do ?
Pub! of course. Sweet!
We only had a couple of hours of refueling and relaxing and then it was time to get back on the trail and set up a shot in
the hopes of getting some nice light. So which tripod do you wanna carry?
Whichever one makes me look cooler oh definitely the heavier one then.
Thanks. You're welcome. I think the lighter one makes me look cooler. You think so? Yeah!
Cos I think heavier ones more your style. And I think you're full of sheeeyyiit.
By the time we reached our spot, the light wasn't looking too promising so we had to improvise a look
for an entirely different shot what do you think Gavin this gonna work for us
tonight well it's a bit of a struggle now because that forecast that we got
earlier they said nothing was gonna be on the horizon and the cloud was gonna
be high and that's always almost like a guaranteed epic sunset but look at it
it's completely covering the horizon so now I reckon the best we can hope for is
that these pillowy clouds light up with some color when the Sun Goes Down I'll
get a nice reflexion in this pond. So hopefully still something yeah I
think we might get something but it's not I won't get that nice side like that
I promised you. So I'm glad that I didn't give you a guarantee. I can guarantee
guarantee guarantee guarantee you could take back my dinner I'll give you back
your dinner what I would suggest is before setting up the tripod I'm gonna
give you the camera okay and I want you to walk around the scene and handheld
just frame up your shot take some very quick and easy snaps in automatic and
just find your composition and then once you've found the best comp then we'll
lock down with a tripod and dial in all the best settings all right let's do it
I've named this process the '20 in 2' method and I wrote an entire article
about it years ago on my blog so here's a link you might find that interesting
so yeah so if you just when you composing so zoom out so that's your
zoom wheel and try try just turning the whole camera vertically now yeah so what
I like is that reflection there yeah and so you can feel it's a super wide angle
lens you can if you turn it if you angle it down you see how the shape of the
trees gets larger yeah and distorts? So you've got to kind of choose where
you want to use that distortion. Do you want to use it in the bottom half of the
frame or do you want to use it in the top half the frame or if we move back to
say let's say here but you could get lower to the ground
and you could feature more of this these rocks in the foreground so it's it's
just a case of walking around the scene of finding what fits in your frame
that's pleasing and includes all of the ingredients such as the trees the
reflection and those gorgeous clouds options yeah so just try that just just
move around and see see what works and just take lots and lots of very quick
shots doesn't even matter if they're focused are not so what have you found
if you got anything cool okay so I've been wandering around and I found that
rock over there and I was wondering what you would think about putting that kind
of in the very front of the composition that work he's learned we can go
vertical okay so you should be able to get shoreline rock reflection and the
trees okay all in one vertical so let's try out
with a tripod so you've got your compositions yeah you got your tripod
lock down you've done all your hard work and you found your shot handheld which is great.
Let's lock it down onto that tripod get in position good to go that is it in
tight seems to be yep right so what what we've done here with this central column
extension that's a last resort I don't usually like doing that because it gives
you a wobbly tripod when you taking a long exposure or even a short one so
we're gonna maybe put it on a 10 second timer so that all that vibration dies
down but that's kind of like something to know is that's always a last resort
only do it if you have to so let's just have a look at this shot now that is
Trezmendous! Looks gorgeous so let's get it to an aperture of f/8
with this dial because that's a nice sharp aperture mostly everything should
be in focus with that perfect right so you've got to f/8 yep so now we're gonna
focus right and we're gonna focus on that tree line so we're going to do this
by magnifying in with the C1 button. It's different on every camera and we're just gonna
nudge this up here until we can clearly see that tree line okay so now you can
see it's out of focus it's blurred right okay I turn this focus wheel that's even
more blurred I go back this way tourists beautiful it's got blurred
again seeker you got to find that perfect point in
between where it's beautifully focused. I'm gonna let you do that okay oh you didn't
tell me that you were legally blind. I don't know what I'm looking for like I
don't know how crisp it should be. How crisp should it be? One thing you could
do on this you could look through there and you'll see that a bit clearer
without any light around does that help can I check it yeah
please do I think you got it I think you think you
got the focus okay so we're just waiting for this light now I reckon we have
maximum 25 minutes and then I reckon it's done okay so but I'm bloody cold
my ears are freezing cold I wish I'd brought my hat
don't make ear warmer how's it look like it's super stylish yeah well yeah
absolutely are you going for backwards which way
round for the beach yeah go they're all look good do I look stylish it will
explicit Rochas and I hope that what okay well as long as I look good all
right so what aperture do I want to use that you want to be setting this to
about ethic
did you get any Anya okay why are fake so the reason why you're gonna choose f8
is because it's very very sharp it's gonna everything's gonna be sharp but
it's also enough depth of field so that your trees are sharp and in focus and
this rock in the foreground is also going to be in focus so FA it's good
okay and our ripples on the water aren't gonna be nicely in focus ruining our
reflection those ripples are a bit of a problem effect so what we could do is
put an ND filter on which a neutral density filter okay and that off that's
like putting sunglasses on the lens so it's dark that's gonna force us to take
like an 8 or a 10 second exposure which will smooth out those ripples okay but
it's still not an ideal reflection but it's a workaround you know in the shot
that actually doesn't look too bad yeah it seemed to still up for a few seconds
yes oh it's getting better it's all let's let's not bother with that so
you've got your aperture you've got your focus you've set your white balance to
daylight which is giving us a nice color let's now set the exposure so the
camera's telling you that you're a bit underexposed so what you're gonna do I
want to overexposed a little but you want to get it to the zero points so I
might change that dial there that's you shutter speed and get it so that that
says zero that's it you got it that was it take the shot there we go now let's
check it so you're gonna hit the play button okay yeah I looked pretty good
everything's in focus right let's go back now I want you to under expose that
so that the high highlights in the sky aunt blown out so let's go darker okay
so remind me to go darker do I want higher than zero or lower than lower
going into - no good now okay go ahead so I want it fairly to
look at the sky and if it looks like you can see detail in those clouds take the
shot so let's do another one that's very
overexposed so we've got detail in the shadows there you go that's that's a bit
there perfect so that is now quite quite overexposed but that's okay so let's
take the shot and it comes right down perfect so let's play back let's have a
look at those so you've got that one then turn this dial okay that's the dark
on that's the correct one so it is reexpose use that should be everything
that you need the only problem now is it took so long
in between each one that the clouds are in two different positions so the key is
to do it quick really fast Oh set auto exposure bracketing automatically and
it'll just go bang bang bang okay do it for you
the thing with this camera is though it doesn't do auto exposure bracketing and
have a two second timer which is stupid so anyway just fix that stupid but that
camera does okay but this older generation one this is a sort of
entry-level mirrorless camera yeah you can't have
both you can't have your cake and eat it so I'd rather do it manually and just
get a move on and do it okay so I just need to practice is what you're saying
just met you tore my buttons are really get it nailed down yeah but I think that
for your first shot on your first session with me that's a bloody good
picture sweet I'm excited to see how it turns out let's get it back into
Photoshop
and this is Catherine's very first shot on a mirrorless camera while shooting
entirely in manual mode she found a great composition got
perfect focus and bracketed her shots manually she even managed to capture
that little sea anemone in the foreground there
all in all it was well worth the trip to you clueless and it's never a wasted day
on the west coast well I think we've seen the best of the light let's turn it
off I think that's it we've got we've got the best of the blush we've got a
decent shot wasn't killer well what'd you think was that good for your first
session I learned a lot I'm a little bit disappointed that we didn't get some
better light like we were hoping you were gonna story of my life man Yeah
right but yeah I mean I'm excited to see what we're gonna finish with once we get
it all processed and it's all finished I'm excited for this expensive Meili
checking me for all right sweet subway here we come that's favorite restaurant
again I thought I'd be treating you oh yeah meatball subs yeah all right
seriously dude