Music Welcome back to the channel, welcome back to the vlog. And today you're joining me, still in lockdown in Ireland and I'm within 5km of my home. Something that I've been doing all the last number of weeks is getting old and just getting a drive really around my whole area, looking out for different things that I could photograph in the right conditions. And where I am today is right next to the road, so my car as you can just see is just here in the edge of the frame. It's quite a busy road as well, so you might get some cars passing me when I'm talking here, but what I've actually, what I've here to shoot is there's two trees that are in a field on their own. When I first came past here, I saw it, I went, okay, this could be nice, no, it was a great day or anything like that, so there wasn't much in a light condition. But today now we've got a bit of a gap on facing east, the sun is going to obviously set on the west, and I'm hoping I get some nice shots, with some nice movements and clothes and hopefully they catch some colour. So I'm going to play around with a number of different shorter speeds today. I'm going to go for some fast shutter speeds, I'm going to go for some long shutter speeds and see what I can actually get by playing around as well with the focal length. So at the moment here, just set it up a matter of 70 mil, and the challenge I have is that there's power cables that are running either side of the trees, so what I might end up doing is zooming into 200 or there, there are boats and isolated, and those two trees and try not get these power lines that are actually in the frame. So yeah, we'll see all we get on anyway today, and be something simple really, but yeah, good to get off, good to get used in the camera as always, and maybe I'll get some nice shots, I'll do these two trees if we get some nice light behind them in the clouds. Our silashot is known that I've taken here, it's at F10, and I'm at 20 second exposure ISOs up in 100, and by doing a longer exposure, I am getting a small bit of movement in the clouds. Now ideally, when you're doing long exposures with clouds, you better off to have it coming towards the camera, but I'm bottled right up here as far as I can go, there's a big hedge the full way along here, so I don't want to go further on down because I won't be able to get around in that area anyway, and there's electric cabling, electric fences around this as well, so I imagine they can have one people stay out, so I don't really want to go trails and cruise some farmers field, because I just don't want to do that. At the moment, I'm in landscape orientation, so what I'm going to do now next is I'm going to change that, and the beauty again of another bracket is that you don't have to change anything whatsoever, it's taken off, it goes back in exactly the same way, the focus that you would have had, and what that node does here, from this point of view, is puts the two trees on the bottom, third, and then I've got this sky with the clouds that are above it here, I'm going to continue with my long exposure, and by doing that again, you know, I'm going to get a very very similar shot to what I got in the first one. I've been very careful obviously not to move, not to move my feet, even though I'm unstable ground, when you're exposing for around 20 seconds any movement at all can give you judder in the photograph. Also, when you're doing a long exposure, turn off your image stabilization, because what that effectively is doing is making minute compensations itself the whole time, which means that it rend you image actually. Blurry, so yeah, we'll see how this one turns out now, and then we're going to zoom in a bit further as well and play around with that. We're around 25 minutes now away from sunset, and we asked that to get a bit of a nice bit of color that has, you know, kind of kind of above the trees there a moment ago, but this bank of cloud on the west, close enough like it's going to swallow it up. I had the other camera just on a kind of a time-lapse record there to go to see the movements in the clouds, and see what's really kind of colors and stuff coming around. What I have done actually is had a mixture of different exposure times, so I've gone for a very, very fast shutter speed, I've gone for an F4 as well, because I wanted to see could I get some bokeh in the background down those trees, and also with the birds as well, I wanted to go for kind of a faster shutter speed and hope that I can get a couple of the the crows that are around that tree as well. It does seem to be number them actually nesting within that tree, so it must be home for a, as was the night of them. The concept as well now at the moment actually on second note, so I get those birds. As I've got the camera on high speed continuous here because I wonder if I'll take a number of different shots when the birds are flying by, and maybe that will add something different as well into the image, but concept now is this to wait for this light, hopefully it will come, should light off above it. They'd get a couple of nice patches of light anyway, not things spectacular because it's not sunset, yes, but you never know, I was way to the very, very end, you never know, it's not over till it's over, so yeah I'm going to just wait around now for this light to come, hopefully, and continue to take some different shots in it and play around the only subject I'm going to have is these two trees, so we're going to see a number of different photographs of the same subject today, but any different size balls really will be the focal length, exposure time, the clouds, and then again like a moment of off any birds and so that, that I want to add into the frame, so yeah, we wait, let's see, hopefully, we get something nice. So while I was waiting around there for the light to come, the light didn't come, but also something else arrived, which was rain, and I was about to send the drone up actually just to get some footage there around that tree, and I put the drone down to set it up and all of a sudden I could see drops on the drone, and then I looked towards the tree and there was some rain by the tree, so taken so on the trees, so I then have taken a couple of photographs of any of that here, I'm not going to send the drone up now because it is raining here at the moment, the light is well, it's going to be gone, so yeah, good to get out, good experiment anyway, and hopefully some of the shots actually might turn out nice, but to show the differences in the exposure times, but yeah, I'm going to finish up this episode of my vlog, but if you're first to come on the channel, please hit that subscribe button, give me a like, give me a comment, and until the next time, you