On the Nantlle Ridge, Eryri, for Sunset Photography
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2023
- In this landscape photography video I head up to the summit of Mynydd Graig Goch, at the southern end of the Nantlle Ridge, via Llyn Cwm Dulyn in the Eryri National Park. Setting out mid afternoon my plan is to be on the mountain summit in plenty of time for sunset. It's a balmy late spring afternoon with blue skies, but I am hopeful for some good light as the evening draws on.
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Edited, mixed and produced with DaVinci Resolve 17.
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Interesting to see a different perspective ...
Haha, stopping to take photos is a great excuse for those of us getting older and slower 😆 Stunning location!
I used to call them "micro-breaks", but they got less and less "micro". So I needed a better excuse!! You'll find out in Peru 😂👍
Really enjoyed this video, David and it’s great that you are able to take us with you on your photographing adventures. I think you do very well to cover the distance you cover and the summits that you reach when your out and about. Thank you for sharing what you like doing……Landscape Photography at it’s best…..Thank you.
Thank you so much for your extremely generous feedback, I really appreciate it and I'm so glad you enjoyed this 😊👍
Nice! Wonderful views and great pictures!
Many thanks! 😊👍
Great video superb photos always wanted to explore that ridge very inspired after seeing this thank you
Hello John, thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. I can very highly recommend this particular walk as it's one which puts you in a good position for photography without too much effort and detracting from the time available to actually make images! 😊👍
I enjoyed this vlog very much Dave. Thank you and best regards Robin
Thanks a lot, Robin, I really appreciate you tuning in and being good enough to leave a comment 😊👍
Hi Dave, just picked up your video on Nanlle Ridge, I very much enjoyed the half a day out with on this shoot. Excellent shots, nice shot of the sunset too. I look forward to the next one. Thank you.
Hello Michael, thank you so much for watching and being good enough to leave such generous feedback. So glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
A mountain I need to climb more often. Think you were wise filling with water, I find the Nantle ridge dry. Some lovely photos.
Yes, it really helps to know where you're likely to find water at higher elevations to save carrying it up. There are one or two summits I love to visit where there are small ponds right at the top such at Moel Cynghorion and Carnedd y Filiast 😊👍
Beautiful video, I really enjoyed it, thanks.
Thanks again, Rob. 😊👍
Brilliant David really pleasant to watch and what a stunning location, loved the images they were just fab
Many thanks for watching, Jim, so glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
Great video David and some nice shots. Your description of the mountain sounds like it'd suit Gary Norman 🤣.
Funnily enough, I had mentioned that to him when we were chatting after I'd been up there 😊👍
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Great video!!!
Thanks so much, really appreciate you taking the time to comment 😊👍
Brilliant job, David! Cheers for sticking to your guns and keeping the format of your CZcams videos true to the area. I spy you've got yourself a new backpack, and it's looking smashing! Hopefully, it's a perfect fit for your photography and hiking adventures amidst the stunning Eryri landscape. I must admit, I wasn't entirely convinced about your new Fluid Head, but witnessing it in action on those trails, it's got me seriously considering getting one! Keep up the brilliant work, David!
Cheers Bernard, yes it's the Wandrd Prvke 31litre mk2 😊👍
That was a joy to watch, thank you. Hope you don't go into drought 😂
Cheers Sandy, many thanks for watching. As it happens, there hasn't been a drop of rain since I recorded this three weeks ago! Suits me just fine 😊👍
‘Old and nackered’ - just give it a few more years mate! Your captures on the way up show what’s possible in ‘harsh’ light. Thanks for taking us along.
No such thing as "bad" light as far as I'm concerned. Just people who don't know what to do with it 😊👍
You are such an inspiration! Just managed to get my hand on a used em1 mark ii and 40-150 f4 pro. Hoping to head out to my local park this week to experiment :D
I had many happy years with my EM1.2, of course that was before this lens was available, but I'm willing to bet it's a cracking combination and you should have lots of fun with it 😊👍
Beautiful Wales! Thanks for the great channel, and the help with pronouncing Welsh place names for us ‘foreigners’! 😀
Was in Wales in May and we had hail, rain and strong winds, but had a great time non the less.
Cheers Peter, yeah I'm afraid most of Wales is pretty much a 4 seasons in one day sort of place. We get everything the Atlantic has to offer in terms of weather systems, especially if the have a south-westerly track and Ireland dodges the bullet! 😊👍
Beautiful! Just Beautiful! Thanks for letting me hang out with you! Cheers Rikard
You are more than welcome Rikard, I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to leave a comment with such generous feedback. So glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
Thank YOU ever so much Dave !!!!! Your videos are the next best thing to actually getting out there myself. As lover of hiking and all things photography, your videos hit the spot. Looking forward to your spring snd summer adventures 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for your hugely generous feedback. I really appreciate it. Sometimes it's a bit of an effort to make these videos when I would in all honesty prefer to just concentrate on the photography. But comments such as yours certainly make it worthwhile, and you can rest assured there will be many more videos to come on this channel 😊👍
Lovely photos and lots of good advice! What's not to like? Glad you got nice weather too!
Thanks a lot, David, so glad you enjoyed it 😊👍
A very pleasant, and masterfully crafted presentation. Funny the part about the butch energy bar- Warrior Crunch.🤭 Thank you.
Cheers Rick, many thanks for tuning in and taking the time to comment. Yes, it only occurred to me as I was saying it that it sounds like the sort of thing that some musclebound meathead would have after a really heavy weights session! 😊👍
Another great video. Thank you very much 🙏
Thanks so much for tuning in, really appreciate it 😊👍
Hi Dave, another grand day out, thanks for sharing ... maybe not a lot of images, but the quality was certainly there. Nice to see you out in your element once more, and I enjoy your evident skill in video production.
Hi Steve, to be fair I actually don't make that many images as a rule on most of my videos. I tried to avoid padding them out with obviously substandard work. There's bound to come a time when they'll be a video with absolutely nothing to show for it! To me, the photography is far more important than the video 😊👍
Really enjoyed this, Dave! I haven’t been taking many pictures later, but you inspire me to try again, even if it’s the back yard. You always seem to come home with something worth looking at.
You're too kind, Kathleen, but I always appreciate your very generous feedback 😊👍
I had a catch up with Gaz about an hour ago & we got into conversation about vlogging and then he mentioned Friday to me - I said what are tyou lot going to talk about as we don't see any content from you lot these days..lol Anyway, I went to have a look and recalled seeing the post for this but musty have put it on the back burner to watch and it somehow got lost so to speak. Anway, what a cracking little bimble that was - an area I have not been but would sometime love to have a look at. Those rocks definitely look to be something to work with for foreground etc and I have now put it on my list for a future visit. Just looking on the map & realise I have been in the area although not close. Just prior to lockdown I was on Craig y Garn when I went looking for Graig Lwyd in Cwm Penant. Enjoyable watch DG. atb Al
Cheers mate, yes you'd like it up there and it's a very easy park and stroll 😊👍
It looks very pleasant up there David, another worthwhile trip out and a good day for it. Happy days.
Highly recommended, Iain, if you're ever visiting it's a great way to avoid the crowds with an easy hike. 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery That sounds about right for me these days lol. Cheers.
Absolutely stunning scenery beautiful images thank you for taking me to these wonderful places really enjoy your work thank you Burt
Hello Burt, thanks so much as ever for your hugely generous support. I'm so glad you enjoy my work 😊👍
Always enjoy it 👍
Well done as always. Thanks!
Many thanks for watching, Nick, and being good enough to take the time to leave a comment. It is much appreciated 😊👍
Good to see you out Dave, it is a fine rocky summit, been up once before but really enjoyed it. Great pics as usual
I guess it's a bit of a schlep heading round from Rhyd Ddu, but there's always the hero route straight up Y Garn and along the ridge!! 😁👍
Beautiful day and beautiful pictures - thank you very much for sharing,David! This is such a attractive place to live in my opinion. I‘m looking forward to visiting Wales next week. We will start in Pembrokeshire and see how far north we will get this time… Kind regards from Germany, Martin
Pembrokeshire is quite nice, are used to live there for many years. But North Wales is far superior! My recommendation is that you head up here as soon as you can 😁👍
@@DGriffGallery You seem to be a good advertiser of your home place, David, and an honest man as well 😉. We stayed several times in Wales (Brecon Beacons, hope you don‘t mind if I still call them so - the Cader Idris region, Carnarfon and Northern Snowdonia, Anglesey of course, you name it). We like your country very much and this year my wife wants to walk the Pembrokeshire Coast Path for the first time. Maybe I can persuade her to climb one or another mountain again… thank you very much for your kind answer!
Your images always resonate with me! Beautiful work!
Thanks so much, Jim, to be honest when I making these videos, reaction to the images is much more important to me than any other aspect of the work so I really appreciate your feedback 😊👍
Nice work Dave - beautiful images!
Thanks a lot, Darrel, really appreciating your support of my channel 😊👍
I was exploring around that lake 2 weeks ago- after shooting pylons over the A487 and the Nebo/Arfon transmitter combined...
I did wonder if there was a path up to the summit of the hill... now I know ! Cheers :)
Thank you for sharing, nice to know such lovely views can be had without a strenuous hike. I really like the 2nd image of the 3 at the end of your vlog 👌
Thanks a lot Sue 😊👍
You should definitely give it a go next time you're in the area 😊👍
Thank you, David. Great work. BTW do you know what use the rock wall originally served?
Hello Peter, they are actually surprisingly common even at the highest elevation is around Eryri. I often marvel at the amount of work that must've gone into them especially given that the labourers started the day by climbing a mountain before they started their shift! In particular the ridge which I was on in this video is crisscrossed with drystone walls almost along its entire length. Despite the huge amount of work which must've gone into them, and most of them are maintained and still functional, very few have fallen into disrepair, they are still a vital aspect to the management of hill-farmers' flocks of sheep. Often, the dividing line between respective farms is a long a ridgeline. One flock belonging to a farmer in the valley on one side of the mountain, and another on the other side. So in order to keep things simple for rounding them up it's much easier to build a wall van to try and separate to flocks at the end of every summer season when they bring the sheep down from the hills. 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery Thanks. I live in the southern part of Australia and these walls are also a feature of our country side. Over 100 years ago, families came to Australia from Ireland, Scotland and Wales to build these walls. We also built them to control rabbit infestation. Even today, dry stone walls are still a beloved feature of country side. We still make these walls, we just use a different technique. I grab some images for you the next time I see some. Many thanks.
Hello from Arkansas, USA. I enjoy your videos! Can you tell me the ball head you are using? I can't remember if it was this video or a different one. Thanks
Hi, thanks a lot. I haven't used a ballhead for a while. My main is a Benro geared head. But it's a bit heavy so for this sort of thing I was using the Smallrig fluid video head, which is really light and pretty much has the same useage. All my stuff is on my gear page if that helps: dgriff.gallery/gear/ 😊👍
Another great vlog Dave. Now that I'm no longer fit enough to venture that far I look forward to your outings. I notice that you focus stack manually rather than using the built in offering from Olympus. Is it because you have greater control by doing it manually, where you choose the focus points?
Hello Mike, it's all done manually for a couple of reasons. Firstly the built-in focus stacking is predominantly used for macro work when the camera stitches together 10 or 20 exposures. It's not really designed for landscape work. Secondly, the output from that process in camera is just a JPG file, which would be no use to me as I always need RAW files to create my final images. With regards to where I select that always depends on what's in the composition, it can be especially challenging when there is a big difference between close up for ground and then nothing in the mid-ground until you get to, say, a mountain in the distance. The problem isn't capturing the exposures it's blending it convincingly in post processing. But an easy rule of thumb is to take one shot focused on the closest foreground, one on the mid-ground and for safety sake one on the far background. It's not often you will actually need to use all three of them, but since pixels are free of charge there's no harm in taking enough home to work with 😊👍
Aside from the photography, I've noticed you feature the walking poles more frequently. Do you find them an advantage?
I certainly do, I wouldn't attempt anything with a gradient without them. They help to pull up a bit, but more importantly they stabilise you on the way down when your knees are giving up! I was heading out once with a friend and had forgotten to bring my poles, so we had to make a detour to a local hiking shop to pick up a pair as I couldn't contemplate it without them! The ones you've seen in recent videos are those poles 😊👍
I like watching your videos but to me it will always be Snowdonia not Eryri. Now we have Bannau Brycheiniog instead of Brecon Beacons which is un-pronounceable for us English who bring most of the money into the areas.
Isolationism is the way these Isles are going which is not healthy.
I've given some thought as to how, or whether I should reply to this. However, since I am in the habit of responding to all comments, it only seems fair to document my contradiction to your position. Visitors to Cymru, are more than welcome to call our locations either by their Anglicised versions, or by means of a mangled Welsh pronunciation. We value tourist revenue, but not to the extent that we will be told what we can and can't call our own localities. The same applies globally. For example: Paris, pronounced "Paree" by the French and French speakers, but not by us. London called "Londres" etc, this list is endless.
It is, however, patently ridiculous, to conflate a perceived "isolationism"" with our perfectly reasonable wish to revert OUR place names to recognise OUR OWN cultural heritage. Heritage which has been consistently subsumed across centuries into a lazy acceptance of not only Anglicised versions, but also literally completely revised place names to English. Many of which have no direct correspondence to their actual original Welsh meanings.
Twll Du and Llyn Bochllyd to name just a couple, local to me, which have simply been arbitrarily renamed for for the convenience of visitors. Should this offend you to the extent that you wish to withhold your revenue, be my guest, your loss. But don't expect me to rename my house to suit you, because I can call it anything I want.
I think that the returning to the original Welsh names is a great thing! But of course in many minds they will always have the English names of long usage. But I do believe it actually helps to benefit one’s experience of visiting Wales to try to get to grips with the Welsh names. On another channel I argued for both English and Welsh to be applied to well known places that have had English names applied for decades, and from a practical aspect that will no doubt continue for a long time yet. But the Welsh must come first and the English second. Griff’s channel is a great help to us to tackle the pronunciation of these place names, and his attitude is a fair and relaxed one. If we get it wrong, then just smile and apologise - Welsh people would have the same problem with some of our weirdly pronounced English names!
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Incredible…hard work pays off!! 🤍
Thanks ever so much for tuning in, I really appreciate it. And many thanks for taking the time to comment 😊👍
Very refreshing to see you back where you belong Mr G - Always nice to just follow a path till you cant get any higher without getting knackeres :) A lovely spot too I might add.
Cheers Toby 😊👍
So very good to see you out and about again Dave. Life has kept me away from photography lately, but I intend to do more this summer. Great trek, and great shots. Cheers
Thanks a lot, Dennis, hope you're doing okay. I'm guessing you'll be glad to be getting back behind a camera ... 😊👍