1000 Miles for a SINGLE Photograph

hi i'm adam and welcome back to first man photography now in today's video we are going to foolishly perhaps travel 1000 miles for one photograph so let's go before we get going today this video is sponsored by lexa if you need fast reliable and high quality sd cards look no further than lexa right to start off the video we are going to travel the first half of the thousand miles 500 miles north to scotland so i'm going to save you that journey and we're going to go straight there to an astounding landscape [Music] so i am very very far north in scotland and have been directed to this truly remarkable place if i just spin around look at that that is just unbelievable this little spot that i've found is just fantastic it's on the the shore of this small town i think the scottish call it lochen and these reeds are just forming the perfect piece for foreground interest to then lead me in to those autumnal trees the little cups of trees just there which is looking fantastic then up into those mountains which is just being just perfectly brushed by those clouds to really make this work now i'm still probably a couple of hours away from sunset but i think it's probably the perfect time because the sun is coming from over there and those mountains are now just being side lit and i feel very fortunate because up to now today it has been horrifically wet i've been taking refuge in the cloud in the car and wow look at the the sun hitting the peaks of those mountains if i can get that on these ones here that is going to be extremely exciting so let me just talk you through what i have here so like i said the foreground is the water and the reeds the mid ground going up towards that cops and then the and then the mountains in the distance that's what i'm going for and what i'm trying to include is just the left-hand side of the mountains and the wreath just leaving a little bit of breathing space on the left-hand side of the frame to allow those mountains and those reeds to breathe and balance the image and then to the other side all the sun's coming around now look at that the sun's coming around and i want to get that give the same sort of breathing space to the right-hand side of that cops of trees and then getting a bit of the sky in oh it's coming good i'm just gonna have to fire now what i'm doing with the camera with the settings is around 35 millimeters to include those things i've just mentioned uh the light is coming come on and then bracketing i have oh the light's just improving all the time so it's too exciting so i'm bracketing because there's some very bright spots so there's a big dynamic range but rather than combine them in post in hdr we'll probably do some luminance masking because what i'm also doing is using a polarizer just to take a little bit of this bright sheen off the water and then also got this six stop filter on here because i want to just smooth the water out a touch but i want those reeds to be sharp so it may be that i have a go of both so let's do one with the filter because that light's just improving all the time and it's looking good above now as well let's have a look at that as it's taking a few more seconds i'm just desperate to see it oh man that's so nice there's some lovely color in there i am just going to take the filter out though adjust my shutter speed down i'm at f11 i'm now at 125th of a second iso 100 because i want to get a sharp shot with with the reeds oh that yeah that's still looking good i might just adjust the polarizer a little bit more there we go just to take a bit more sheen off that water and then fire again oh that light yes it's so exciting when this happens so exciting and i'm not sure in my time in scotland here this week that i'm going to get much more chance to shoot on my own so this is extremely exciting because it's so much better than i thought i'm not even sure what to say really because it's just so beautiful and the light now just looks fantastic so i don't know it feels like a reward but i don't particularly think i've done anything that special other than to drive up here so yeah i guess i'm just lucky have a look [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i'll tell you why i traveled a thousand miles and discuss a little bit of the post processing in a minute but as you know this video is sponsored by lexar now this here is the lexar professional 2000 x sd card and it's by far the best sd card i have ever used and it's been filming all of this content for at least the last few months now it's fast at 300 megabytes a second read speed 260 megabytes per second write speed which is just gonna be perfect for all your high quality 4k footage your fast burst rate stills if you're out in the field and you want to transfer stuff to a laptop you want that to happen as fast as possible and with this card you can do that but lexar also have a full range of cards to cover whatever your needs are and yeah they've never literally never let me down even when i dropped my camera and the memory card in the water in wales so yeah go down to the link below give lexar some love for sponsoring the channel and you will not be sorry when you pick up a brilliant sd card so like i mentioned there i didn't actually get a chance to do another shoot whilst i was in scotland i was there for another job and making youtube videos is not all i do but it was it just turned in to a really difficult week and it was actually a little bit of a bust through nobody's fault it's just the way it worked out and then i was i found myself right at the north coast of scotland with my car by myself without much of a plan traveling around in scotland in the car gives you real good opportunities to photograph some of these absolutely stunning locations but i just don't i struggle with doing photography like that i struggle with that building that connection with nature which is the whole reason i do landscape photography it's not just to get the shot it's about making that connection with nature and getting that well-being up and i think it for me it just gives me that meaning to life really to be out and about in the landscape like that and when i look around all the images on my wall almost all of them have involved getting away from the car getting out on foot and being in the landscape for a significant amount of time building that connection and then capturing whatever sea in front of me so i just didn't want to really i don't know be traipsing around in the car by myself because i don't want to be traveling all that much in the car to get photographs it's just not how i like to do it it's different for everybody i'm not saying there's one thing is right or wrong but i had pressures to come home anyway so travelled the 500 miles again back to leeds uh so yeah it was a bit of a bus but not a total loss because i did end up with a shot that i was really happy with i've had quite a few questions about my post-processing recently and for this one i started off by using my sunset rocks preset as a base and then made a few more adjustments and basically all it does is it desaturates a little bit gives a sort of warm feeling to the image it adds a fade to the blacks and puts in a bit of a vignette just to give that moody sort of sense to the image you can get all of my presets if you subscribe to the raw room and now as well along with all the original content on there these videos are going up uh in advance of going on youtube and they are ad free and sponsorship free so if that sort of thing annoys you you can subscribe to the raw room right anyway i'm now gonna print that image because i think it's a good one and i think it will be worth it right so there we go then i am absolutely thrilled with that i well it was a funny week last week to be honest for me but uh to then come away with something like that is actually really satisfying i feel like it has been rescued was it worth traveling a thousand miles for one image probably not in all honesty but uh yeah when you eventually when you get a piece of work in hand this i think is what i'm going to remember rather than the difficulties and the challenges i faced last week so um yeah i don't really know what the message this video is but i hope you've enjoyed it and i'll see you on another one very very soon i'm adam this is first man photography out

Channel: First Man Photography

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Keywords: landscape photography, photography, landscape photography tutorial, photo ideas, scotland photography, outdoor photography, nature photography, landscape photography tips and tricks, photography documentary, photo hacks, photo inspiration, landscape photography on location, landscape photography vlog, travel photography, photography tutorial, adam karnacz, landscape photographer, sunset photography, behind the scenes, best camera settings

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Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021