Landscape and Nature Photography - Dawn shoot at Blea Tarn...or at least that was the plan!!

so just looking at the weather forecast and after a complete washer which has been this weekend and it looks like there's going to be a nice sunrise in the morning and I was just looking at going to Cumbria and if you look on the map you'll see that for the company and fellows you've got some patchy cloud and quite a lot clear patches and that's at four o'clock in the morning however more importantly over the eastern side there's no cloud whatsoever which basically means that when the Sun comes up all the cloud over the Cumbrian fellows should under light nicely and give an amazing - on display so what am I going so I'm thinking I'm going to bleat on and I've been to bleat on just loads of times in fact I'm I'm almost sick of going and getting nothing but given that forecast I think tomorrow will be the one so I'll leave here at about half past four I should make it for sunrise at six or seven quite easily because we're parka bleating it's only a couple of minutes walk down to the down to the edge until the that's on so fingers crossed we call Beyond right I've arrived so it's about ten minutes before sunrise and the question is of the weather forecast has got it right and the answer is out of the egg as you can see behind me is a lot of white cloud causing problems there's a little bit of eye color but not really much to speak of it was in the grand scheme of things I've only travelled for an hour enough to get here which isn't bad so some of you might travel four or five hours to get here for Dawn and I can imagine that really frustrating to find that the forecast is completely the opposite to what they said it will be but anyway I'm gonna set up pub look through the viewfinder and then see what happens you never know so my idea was this morning I was going to shoot a panoramic of a number of pictures sticks together vertical pictures my portrait format I mean said that the light not really great it's probably not gonna happen the key thing with panoramix is that you get the camera absolutely level the starting point for that is the tripod this particular tripod it's got a spirit level and that's critical that's absolutely Bob in the center so that when you rotate the camera you don't get the camera dipping and rising as it moves through the panoramic you know I find that I stitch about eight pictures together and they overlap each picture by about half to ensure that the overlaps match perfectly I don't use an L bracket it's not because I don't believe in them I just simply don't have one but personally providing to keep the lens it's a longer focal length I don't really or haven't really experienced any problems stitching them together so what I've got to start with because the sky is quite bright I'm the foreground to be fir the dark band in the middle uses technique for but a graduated filter not point six on the top and a not point three on the bottom yet your bottom part of the frame isn't as bright as this guy and just let all the camera op so the tripod and the camera perfectly level there we go got a great little handy spirit level on the back of the back of the LCD screen of the camera so yeah as showing perfectly level me so all in all when I shouldn't be any changes in pitch as I rotate the camera around yep seems good to me and we're aware so overlapped by about half take another shot overlap by half the shot and I'll do that for the whole sequence until I get all the way over to the Langdale pikes to the right okay I'm not convinced that's the best shot I've ever taken but I'll have a look when I get back on the computer to see if I can make anything of it I was here in the autumn last year 2016 and then that occasion had no clothes at all and it's not ideal from a landscape point of view but for whatever reason it really worked on this occasion the Sun came up and hit the hillside because it was autumn it was the most beautiful golden colors and I don't know whether you remember Blue Peter or if in fact Blue Peter is still going I'm not sure but they had a saying when they were making a model I just sticky back plastic and fuzzy felt and glue and it was when they couldn't make it in time for the program to end and they've made one in their bumps and it used to be here's one we made earlier well I'm gonna use that same saying here's one I made earlier [Music] [Music] so just got back to the car and I've been down then the hillside recording some audio just to use another video clips and I could have easily left it's only the fact that I'm just about to make a brew that I didn't and I realized that just left up on the grass I just walked away from it one idiot so glad I remembered that [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so I've come to a place called fair salary I'm sorry sorry sorry so I'm sure your name's it and it's just to the east of us wet water and just the west of Windham you well I've come here because it seems to be a nice area of woodland it looks like broadleaf semi-natural got plantation woodland further left Drysdale and this is a different color green on the map we suggest it's broadleaf semi-natural so I'm gonna head there I think for me this morning it's been a bit of a disaster so far and the whole point of these videos is to get that key picture at the end that says you know this is what it's all about not achieved that so I'm going to adapt to what I do I want to drop the landscape shots I think the picture that I shot of Lita in autumn doesn't really count it's a bit of a cheat so I'm gonna head down there and whenever walk through the woodlands and maybe start shooting things low but I'm gonna try and get something nice nonetheless I think I still think that there's an opportunity to finish this video with a nice shot now I'd only been out there for 10 minutes when it dawned on me that I was actually starting to fall asleep so I headed back to the car to get head down for a little while [Music] I've been wandering around this woodland now for about half an hour looking for decent compositions and finally settled on a little cluster of wood sorrel is growing on this big mossy Boulder you can see it but I just been shooting this one but I've also been shooting one or two others as well when I got here there was one particular flower had that other I think he's a Mitch just sitting on the top and that met quite a nice picture but I had to act quickly so I couldn't make a video about that particular shot but just to run through the equipment that I'm using for this for an angle finder to help me look through the lens in awkward positions hundred mil macro ok we'll release now with this particular shot have not been using mirror lock-up myself time the plant or well tiny as it is isn't the easiest to photograph it's got this big long stalk on it with a massive flower head just just sitting on the top and the problem with that is slightest bit of wind blows around like he's in a hurricane it's really really still today but it's still still quivering so what I'm doing is I've wiped the ISO up as high as I dare go for this particular camera body I can get to about a thousand before it starts to show any noticeable noise and I've been shooting at various apertures working from that to play right through to f/8 I'm probably going to use for stacking on this particular shot just to ensure that I get all of the detail in the flower head but at the same time rendered the background out of focus as much as possible just to give it that nice arty feel and make it stand out from its surroundings so I'm sorry if we didn't get the landscape picture that we thought for this morning but it's nice when you can just sort of shift what you're doing and work with other subjects so I always carry a full complement of kit in my bag long lenses macro lenses wide-angle and the whole lights quite heavy ones to carry around but when it comes to dares like this when you know the landscapes don't come together you've got a good change and do something different so hopefully although we didn't get the clincher this morning with a nice landscape scene which had hoped for with a bit of look one of these little flowers that I've just been photographing now and will produce the goods but time will tell when I get back to the computer so yeah that's about it so if you've enjoyed the video please click the subscribe button to see more and like and comment if you wish and until next time see you all soon [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I pretty much finished and I was on my way back and I got stuck in traffic on the air five nine one and whilst I was sat in traffic I remembered a little place they've not been to for absolutely donkey's years it's called what a burrow niche reserved and latter barrel if you've never been is an area of species rich grassland no species rich grassland is made possible for two reasons one the scrubs managed and to the sensitive grazing management in place and the result is a huge variety of native wild plants and at this time of year is particularly good for cows lips as I'm looking around there's hundreds of them growing around me so I've got my hundred to four hundred millimeter lens and I've got a beanbag and I'm gonna have a look round to see if I can find a nice group to photograph just be aware that dangers lurk at latter barrel ten minutes on one of these I mean your booties will lead to a week of pen these are actually wood ants nests so beware really happy with that so I spent ages looking around for a nice group that was set against a dark background which is what I was really looking for but in the end I've settled on this plant which I'll show you it's about six or seven feet away these two here and whilst it's not a dirt background it's a very nice green background that helps to separate it from its surroundings right I'm using the 100 to 400 millimeter lens and I've got it set at the 400 millimeter end I've also got it on the beanbag and I'm using an angle finder just to save any neck pain later on but the idea of shooting on a beanbag and with the long lens is that it helps to separate the subject from its surroundings the grass is in the foreground are actually in the where but because the 400 Millett millimeter lens is able to shoot through that you can't see it and it just renders it as soft out-of-focus green and it really makes for a nice pictorial image [Music] but overall very happy with that I think it's a really nice end to the day and in terms of this video that really is it see you again soon [Music]

Channel: Simon Booth

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Keywords: Landscape, wildlife, nature, photography, Country Innovation, Grubs wellies, macro, plant, plants, flower, flowers, cowslip, species-rich grassland, broad-leaf woodland, woodland grassland, tarn, lake, dawn, shoot, image, images, vlog, landscape photography tips, panoramic, nature photography tips, landscape photography texhniques, Canon 1dx, travel, outdoor photography, photo, learn, learning, tutorial, Simon Booth, behind the scenes

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Length: 15min 57sec (957 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 20 2017