I've Been Shooting Handheld ALL WRONG!!

[Music] welcome back to the lancaster district guys we're out on another bit of exercise i think in my last um my last exercise i only did about 5000 steps or something it's not good enough so i'm going for the 10 000 today now i'm going to go up this hill you can see behind me there it's called hawthorne's weight fell bit of a mouthful um it's quite a bland looking hill i suppose um but it's really close to home and it's one that i've always wanted to go up to be honest um you can see we've got quite a lot of snow left over probably you know when the snow's kind of turned into ice but it looks beautiful and that's the main thing even if you just look over these fields here absolutely gorgeous so i think it's going to be great for the photography got the canon m50 of course and uh some more handheld shooting and leading on from my last video where we were talking a little bit about tripods and i kind of want to chat about that a little bit more um and talk about something a bit of a epiphany really that i've had about handheld shooting and how i feel like my approach has actually been wrong um and you know i'm fairly new to like handheld shooting which sounds mad really because i've been doing photography for years uh but i love tripods and i think i always will and so this yeah it's kind of new to me but i've realized i've been doing something a little bit wrong i'm gonna work on trying to rectify that today to the best of my ability and uh of course we'll have a little bit of a chat about it so here's the gate up to the moorland let's crack on [Music] [Music] right so before we start heading up the hill which is up there look how beautiful that is guys by the way and before we start heading up i want to make the most of some of these trees if you look around this area here it's just scattered with these beautiful quite mature looking scots pine trees which is amazing obviously when we get up the hill or i mean it looks like it from here it's going to be quite bland which is fine you know that's something that we'll work with but i want to make the most of these trees whilst we're down here and whilst i can and so i'm going to grab a quick shot here and hopefully you can see there that's pretty much the scene that i'm working with so i really like these two particular scots pine trees here and then the road that leads up into the mountains or you know the hills in the background i was just thinking about this one thing i think is wonderful about winter especially when there's been snowfall but it's the same concept with frost it's how it simplifies the colours this would look so different in the middle of summer you know the hills in the background would be green obviously the trees would still be green all these reeds i'm assuming would be a really vibrant green as well and it'd just be horrible you know it'd be a completely different scene whereas the snowfall helps to simplify the colors brings out the greens of those scots pine trees and this kind of yellowy colour of the reeds down here so fairly simple composition and it's definitely one that's kind of made for just a quick stop really um so f4 that's not good enough lads f4 lads and lassies we're not having any any of that let's go f11 and uh shutter speed whatever it wants to be without clipping the highlights critically and so i'm going to get everything off the screen the settings are dialed in there let's just think about the composition that looks absolutely stunning on the back of the camera um i'll tell you what guys that looks like it's going to be a bit of a keeper um so i just want the two trees kind of in the top right hand third somewhere and the road obviously is kind of naturally coming from the bottom left-hand side of the frame and this is all about those beautiful simple colours i'm going to focus off there on those trees if i can yep there we go that'll do us autofocus um and then yeah just make sure i don't over expose the highlights bosh there is your dinner and um yeah don't want to expose uh sorry don't want to over expose the highlights because the sky up there is looking beautiful hopefully that one's come out all right let's crack on up this hill and uh we'll chat a little bit more about the old handheld shooting [Applause] so another snap here you can see this road just leads us back towards them trees obviously i've come a little bit further now we've got ward stone off in the background which is i went up there about three weeks ago it's the highest point of the forest of bowland um so lovely and simple let's get the old manual focus on the go focus peaking um this is a simple focus i want to be about one-third of the way into the image and f11 everything's got to be nicely um or you know sharp enough acceptably sharp um 150th of a second get that roll nice and central horizon at the top or top third awesome really simple photograph but again it's the simplicity that works i think and that's what the snowfall brings simplicity in colours and i feel like it just simplifies the whole landscape as well you know it kind of detects it in a way if that makes sense um okay let's crack on off in the background there you can see a load of trees that's where i'm going then to just kind of start heading up that slope a little bit we'll see how far we get we are on 2 2000 steps we're flying again surprised by that [Music] have a quick one here not a big fan of the uh not a big fan of the two pipes underneath the bridge but you know you can't win them all he cannot win them all tell you what it's freezing it is cold right so we have just started heading up the hill now but i want to get a quick shot of this little cascade here amongst this back really just to try out the image stabilization i want to try and shoot this at maybe 1 6 1 8 of a second something like that not bother too much about composition really just to test the image stabilization like i said and um i suppose see how far we could push it i've done one tenth of a second and i think it looked alright now um just quickly before we get into this i want to talk about handheld shooting so in my last video i spoke all about my tripod how i love using it even when i don't need to be using it technically and that's always been the case and that's because it allows me to slow down fine-tune my composition and really think about what i'm photographing a lot more in depth just fine-tune the composition basically and i love it for that now i was thinking about this yesterday i was thinking that's fantastic and that's the truth and i think there's a lot of us out there that are the same but just because i'm shooting a handheld doesn't mean i can't think about my composition a little bit more in depth and i think this has been a bit of a flaw that i've had with my approach to hand-held landscape photography um in the i think i have to be really quick you know oh yeah that waterfall looks nice let's quickly grab a shot yeah yeah bash done whereas i could still think about my composition you know and i think a lot of what i need to be thinking about more going forward when i'm shooting handheld is the edges of the photograph you know are the things protruding in to the frame that i don't want there um am i using the rule of thirds correctly in my foreground do i want this rock down here etc etc you know whatever the scene may be so that's what i'm going to try and do you know and i think a lot of the time you only need to give yourself an extra 30 seconds one minute of thinking and just look at the whole photograph you know are the things that shouldn't be in that frame that are in the frame that you know i mean the photograph might be a lot better without something protruding in let's say like i said before so something i'm going to think about a little bit more you know allow myself a little bit more time to take photographs to think about composition even when i'm shooting handheld so let's get this shot in the bag anyway ironically i'm not even thinking about composition that much here i just want to test out the image stabilization so f 11 iso 100 and what we have here 1 8 of a second focus on the waterfall lovely and simple so that's proper handheld like um that's 1 8 of a second i'm going to try let's try one fifth of a second that is slow aperture f14 again focus on the waterfall be as steady as i can one-fifth of a second that one's blurry that one's blurry guys i'm not even going to show you that right let's carry on up this mountain this hill and see if there's anything else worth stopping for [Music] so i'm gonna stop here for another quick shot if you look off in the background there we've got really nice shadows down here these um trees down here that you can see are where i was down at that back before when we're photographing the waterfall really nice and then yeah you can hopefully just see like this kind of strip of light at the top of them hills in the background and i just really like that and again like all the shots i've taken today really lovely and simple it doesn't need to be complicated so manual mode and i'm going to focus on the trees down there on the bottom right hand side bottom right third sorry get them in the bottom right and third horizon on the tops of them hills in the top third line on the top third line iso 100 whoa my f22 what is going on i'm not even in manual mode there we go iso 100 f11 150 of a second just make sure my focus is right so i'm going to step forward so that that path or the path that i'm on is not in the frame because it's taking us away from where on the eye to be led um moorland in the foreground covering the whole of the bottom third just this area below us trees in the mid ground and then yeah the background is obviously them hills off in the distance with that beautiful light and then i definitely want the sky in because it's looking gorgeous gorgeously textured lovely so i really like that it's like a a kind of classic forest of bowling photograph vast fairly epic and that kind of nothingness that i've been talking about so much recently so i'm going to go a little bit further up this way and see what we can find and uh yeah let's get these steps in guys let's get these steps in look at that guys look at that that is a work of art absolutely beautiful that's i saw a photograph isn't it that would be um that modern hard thing sell for like 600 grand in a museum or something i mean probably not that's probably that's probably a bit of hyperbole if he is there perhaps i should get that image off in my exhibition whenever that goes ahead so i've come back down to be honest with you you can see behind me there that hopefully you can see that is hawthorne's weight fail so i've got about a quarter of the way up looked at my watch and i'd hit 5000 steps so simple maths it was gonna take me five thousand steps to get back down there where i started um this this exercise and yeah i don't want to go over 10 000 steps because then you know i might as well just be going out on big hikes then um and that's not what this is about is it so i've decided to come back down reluctantly because it looked classy up there but i'm nearly back at these scots pine trees now so no promises but i'd like to think i can maybe get one more photograph so we'll get down there now and have a little look [Music] undeniable i always say this i think some scenes in landscape oh as a landscape photographer i'm sure you'll all agree i just undeniable i don't even know how i didn't notice this on the way up but we've got this little beck here that's kind of meandering around scots pine trees off in the background we've got this little hut over there as well around about there which is pretty cool and the sky is really nice we're probably about half an hour before the sunset and yeah it's lovely it's got this kind of orange glow now in my last video i did a manual exposure bracket um which i just wanted to try now i want to do a handheld panel which again is another thing that i wanted to try um you know i think this is cool these are things i'd usually be doing with a tripod uh religiously i wouldn't do a panel handheld but yeah just wanted to try it i want to see how it stitch stitches together in pause processing so um nice simple left to right it's going to be about four shots i'm going to start around here somewhere maybe just get the edge of this fell here and then pan across and just make sure that i get this bit of um this bit of the river here the back and then a little bit on the right hand side maybe this kind of this little bank here but i think it's going to be nice and definitely a really cool little test so pretty much just got my settings already dialed in i'm going to manually focus use the focus peaking i think it's basically going to be like focusing to infinity and then let's start here so histograms at the very far right hand side and i'm just using the electronic level i'm going to try and keep keep that on green all the way across this isn't going to be perfect um but i guess that's kind of the whole point i want to see how it turns out so first shot beast right nice and still and then i'm going to pan across overlap a little bit histogram's still looking perfect so settings are 1 40th of a second f 7.1 um and iso 100 third shot get that electronic level nice and steady in the middle so settings are all set into the same all the way across focus is the same all the way across beast so that should be up on your screen now hopefully it comes out all right um i have no idea but like i say like i said i'll be interested to see that so let's get the old camera up here and i'm going home i've had enough no um it's been a good little trip up good little bit of exercise hopefully some nice snaps um i love experimenting with things like this um you know again i'm just trying to make a positive out of this situation these are i'd never be experimenting with handheld panels and handheld exposure bracketing and stuff it's cool and so i also wanted to give a quick thank you to all my channel members um it's something i've never really spoken about it's just a feature on youtube where you can join my youtube channel as a member um and i've offered you some like perks and you uh give me money i don't know how to say that without sounding cynical um again it's just another way for you to support me i tell you what i i really appreciate anybody that just watches my videos even if they don't like and comment so you know in its simplest form i appreciate that so i'm not trying to push it i'm not trying to ask anybody to do it um but i'm going to put up on the screen all the people that have decided to join as members thank you so much for your support it really is massively appreciated especially during these times um it means the world so thanks a lot if you want to check those perks out i'll put them in the video description below um but you guys already know there's always a way for you to support me if you want to i don't want to be pushy about it and like i said if you don't support me monetarily i don't care i appreciate the support that i get from you guys with thumbs up if you could give this video a thumbs up as well that would be great and comments below and like i say by just watching my videos anyway cracking little um bit of exercise still living the canon m50 and thanks for tuning in i'll see you on the next exercise out you

Channel: Henry Turner

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Keywords: landscape photography, winter photography, snow photography, canon m50, travel photography, uk photography, forest of bowland, Thomas heaton, nigel danson, mountain photography, landscape photography tutorial, handheld photography, no tripod, lancaster, mirrorless camera 2021, landscape photography hints tips

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Length: 16min 54sec (1014 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021