Long Exposure Photography | Without Filters | With a DRONE | | in the FAROE Islands

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and oh hello everybody hope you're all doing really well ah Faroe Islands this is my first trip to the Faroe Islands now I didn't take an awful lot of footage of me getting here because I figured that you probably wouldn't want to see two or three minutes of b-roll of me flying and driving so we're here today this is our first day and I say we I'm here with his lordship Gavin Hardcastle and Gavin has a couple of clients for a workshop so while driving around in one car and the weather is absolutely beautiful again just like Scotland - nice so we're just driving around today having a quick look around kind of get our bearings Gavin's been here before but I've never been here so but yeah it's it's kind of like her Scotland on steroids it's just beautiful here so I'm just gonna grab my gear and we've stopped off at some waterfall which I cannot remember the name of I'm sure a lot of you that have been here will know it straightaway but anyway it's gonna take a bit of time lapse made me a bit of drone footage and go from there all right [Music] all right so we're still on a bit of a scouting mission here but we've come across this area where there's a waterfall and in the background we have this beautiful kind of verdant green hillside or mountain with a dappled light on it I guess every now and then the light will come through the clouds and project light moving across the hillsides really quite lovely so this shot here it's more or less a no-brainer have the the waterfall in the foreground and then the mountain in the background it's just a matter of waiting for the the clouds to move and let the light shine through for the best image or the best lighting for that image or scene right now it's quite overcast but it does seem to be breaking up every now and then so you get these beams of light coming in and hitting the the landscape in the background [Applause] [Music] this location was a great start to our trip to the Pharaohs and what I especially liked about this scene was how the the waterfall and the river kind of converged in the foreground and it really made a really nice strong statement to the rest of the scene now as far as shutter speed goes I tried to keep it around a fifth or a quarter of a second because I wanted some blurriness in there but I also wanted to maintain some of that texture now while I was in this spot you may have noticed I took some drone footage at the very beginning of this video and I really loved the angle of the waterfall in relationship to the river because you could see more of the river leading towards that that mountain in the background now the only problem was is that couldn't really get across the creek to get closer to the waterfall without getting my feet soaking wet and I really didn't want to try and dry out my boots later on so I decided to try and take some photographs with my drone ok now this photograph somewhat represents one of the reasons why I enjoy using a drone for photography and that's because a lot of the time I just want to get a little bit higher I don't necessarily want to get an aerial image of a ground landscape it's just a matter of getting up you know 10 15 20 feet higher than you're able to with a tripod or standing on a rock or whatever and the reason why I wanted to get up higher as I wanted to include more of the river and the valley so you could kind of lead you all the way to the back there and I think this image does a pretty good job of that now I try to get as close to the waterfall with the drone as I could without crashing it the only problem with with using a drone for this image is that I wasn't able to get the shutter speed slow enough to render the water the way that I wanted it to the valley and the the mountains in the sky are all fine it's just that water just doesn't quite do it for me now unfortunately at this time I didn't have a a polarizer for the drone or ND filters and i had at the lowest settings that i could get it so I had the ISO was at 100 which is the lowest you can go with this drone I had it stopped down to f11 which is the the highest number that I can can get with the drone so the slowest I was able to get the shutter speed is one sixtieth of a second so what I decided to do was take a number of images of the same scene and then combine them to create the illusion that the water is taken at a slower shutter speed so how do you do that well there's a number of ways you can do it and I'll show you how to do that right now now the problem with using a drone and doing this technique is that the images need to line up exactly for it to work and of course with a drone especially if it's windy they do tend to move around a little bit so you might have to play around with your sequence to get them to line up now I have five images here and they're all pretty much exactly the same same composition the only difference is that the water has changed in each one of them so for this image I've already done a little bit of color Corrections sharpening and all that and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select all of them all of these images and I'm going to open them up in Photoshop so right click on the images edit in Photoshop but rather just go ahead and edit in Photoshop I'm going to open them as layers so open as layers in Photoshop okay so we've opened up the images as layers in Photoshop the first thing I'm going to do is just select all of those layers and I'm just going to go over to edit and Auto align I just want to make sure that all of those layers are aligned up as best as possible there's just leave it on auto and just click OK okay so I've lined up the images the best that I can and you'll notice there's a bit of a fringe around the edge we could get rid of that later on so the first method is very simple to do and if you have you know three four five images and this is a quick and dirty method of getting that slow shutter speed look in your and your flowing water okay so we have all our layers lined up the first thing you do okay we're going to leave the first layer second layer I'm going to go up to our pasady bring it down to roughly 50% that doesn't have to be exact next layer we go up to the where we're going to go down to 25% next layer we're going to go to 12 or 13 roughly and in the very last one will go to say 6 and you can play around and adjust these as you go along now if you look over at the water here you'll notice that all of a sudden it looks like we've used a slow shutter speed now there is a little bit of texture in there and I actually don't mind that but you'll notice that it's really kind of smoothed it out and it almost looks like we've we've used the slow shutter speed and then if we zoom in onto the sharper portions of the image a hundred percent you'll notice that it's still looking pretty good it lines up reasonably well considering this is a you know a drone they line up really quite good so that's one method and the other method that you can use you'd probably use this method if you had five or more images now the only problem is is that if your computer is slow then it might take some time to go through these steps but I'll just show you right now how to how to go through it ok so we have our five layers here and I'm just going to select all of them again but this time we're going to right-click and we're to convert them to a smart object now this might take some time so just be patient especially if your computer is really slow okay so our five layers have been converted into a smart object so now you can just see that it's just one layer here with a little icon here with a page and a little square at the bottom of it there okay what we're gonna do now is just go up to layer and then go to Smart Objects and then go down to stack mode and click on mean now this again might take a little bit of time to go through the stages as I said if you have lots of images or lots of layers then it'll take quite a bit longer to do and as you can see once again it's created this this look that we've used a slow shutter speed without using a polarizer or an ND filter so here is the before and here is the after and if we zoom in to the the areas that we want to want to be kept sharp you'll see that it hasn't affected those whatsoever so as I said before this is a great technique to use if you you know forgot your ND filters or your polarizer to slow that shutter speed it's just another way of doing it so don't panic take lots of individual shots of the same scene make sure that they're all lined up and you can create the same effect in Photoshop [Music] all right everybody I hope those couple of tips were helpful to you and if they are then please be sure to leave a comment below and while I'm on the subject of Tips & Tricks if you want to help support this channel then please head over to my shop on my website 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Channel: Adam Gibbs

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Keywords: Long Exposure Photography, Without Filters, FAROE Islands, adam gibbs, adam gibbs photography, Photographing waterfalls, photographing waterfalls with a drone, photography with the mavic pro version 2, landscape photography in the faroe islands, gavin hardcastle

Id: G7E1BLvDKeY

Length: 13min 22sec (802 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 27 2019