How to take SELF PORTRAITS, Nailing Focus and Photography on a MOTORBIKE! (4K)

on today's episode i take a photography trip on a motorbike talk self-portraits and nailing your focus and try not to get lost in a misty landscape here's how play tape [Applause] [Music] [Music] what's happening team well i brought my bike over on the ferry to the isle of wight which is just off the south coast of england for those of you not of this land and this is ventna beach and there's a bit of a marine layer happening well as my wife calls it aha i've just been doing a photo recce at the other end of the beach there's a break wall which i'm quite interested in photographing but the tide's just gone out so the tide won't be back in until about eight o'clock tonight so i'll probably come back then and do a bit of a long exposure but for the time being let's talk about self portraits and how i create images like this [Music] so many people on youtube and instagram ask me how i take self portraits and nail my focus and my exposure every time well there are two ways i do that the first way is using a wireless shutter remote like this one this is an odorland pebble receiver and this is the trigger and it sits on top of your hot shoe and plugs into your usb socket on the side and the trigger acts in the same way as the shutter button on your camera you can half depress it and it will auto focus on whatever you've asked the camera to focus on because the sony a7 iii has eye and face detect i set the focus area to wide and nine times out of ten your face will be tack sharp and incidentally the a7c which is what i'm filming you guys on uses the same autofocus system so wherever you go you'll be in focus the other way if you don't have one of these or face detect is to focus on an object close to where you're going to be and then choose an aperture of around f4 to 5.6 if you go too wide to say 1.8 even if you're six inches off your target you're going to be out of focus then simply set your self timer for 10 seconds and that will give you enough time to get yourself into position [Music] and it also supports continuous burst mode which i find really useful and then you keep your trigger concealed in your hand for faster moving action shots you want to select a minimum shutter speed of about a thousandth of a second or above this removes the possibility of motion blur in your images [Music] [Applause] [Music] so the horror has gotten worse as you can see but i'm going to use that to my advantage there's a couple on the beach just having a barbecue here so with that smoke that they're creating and the mist behind them it should make for a nice atmospheric shot f 5.6 400 of a second iso 200 [Applause] [Music] when i took this shot i wasn't aware of the distant people coming out of the fog i contemplated removing them with the content remove tool but it's a moment in time captured and adds to the depth and scale of the scene [Music] a girl posing for her man while he draws her in the sand such a fun thing to witness and better still to grab it with a photograph even with higher f-stops fog and mist is really useful for creating separation between the subject and the background [Music] i eventually made it back to ventna beach for high tide to capture this brilliant wooden wall with a long exposure so let me show you what i've got here i'm slowing the shutter speed down to 30 seconds with an nd filter and aperture of f16 i'll pop a two second timer on so my hand doesn't create any camera shake during the exposure and incidentally i've set my focus a third of the way into the scene before i attach the nd filter as autofocus can sometimes struggle especially with much darker filters i love the simplicity of this image the wooden wall leading the eye into the scene the absence of people on the beach and that serene uninterrupted water [Music] i somehow managed to insert myself and the tripod into this gap in the boulders to get a different take on this scene going with exactly the same settings as the previous image here just a much lower vantage point [Music] okay so i'm gonna go for two different exposures here the first one at two seconds and the second one at 25 seconds using an nd filter 10 stops i don't know which one's gonna look better in post but i suspect the two seconds [Music] this is the two second exposure and it has a bit more movement than the 25 second exposure i'll let you decide which one is better [Music] so [Music] well good morning guys it's the next day and we've still got this marine layer this mist in the air this is fresh water and it's a bit windy so i'm not sure if you can hear me properly so apologies if you can't got a nice little composition here this has probably been seen before but i really like the mist that's on the hills in the background i'm going to use my 24 millimeter lens and hopefully get this in one frame so i don't need to focus that f8 125th of a second iso 200 with the misty conditions and being close to the ocean wiping down the lens every few minutes was an absolute must for a clean image [Music] i decided to increase my shutter speed to 640th of a second in order to freeze the seagulls in flight but still maintain a fairly low iso [Music] [Music] [Music] on my way back to the bike and the ferry i decided to capture one last photograph using my trusty 70 to 200 millimeter lens for that compressed landscape photo [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: Mark McGee Photos

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Keywords: self portraits, how to take self portraits, how to take selfies, take self portraits with a dslr, photography tutorial, camera settings for self portraits, mark mcgee, self timer portraits, photo tips for selfies, portrait photography

Id: fO1U-bht1WM

Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021