Landscape Photography, Holyhead & Rhoscolyn, Anglesey
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- This landscape photography outing takes in a couple of 'off the beaten track' locations, also another location which can only be described as 'iconic'! I start out photographing Gwenfaen's Pillar. This is a rock stack in a small cove called Porth Saint near Rhoscolyn on Anglesey. It's a very difficult climb down to the rocky beach to get a low angle on the Pillar, and an even more of difficult climb back up! I use a 35mm prime lens with a 10-stop neutral density (ND) filter to create a long exposure. This smoothes out the sea in the image and creates 'movement' in the clouds.
With this photograph in the bag, we head off to the White Arch or Bwa Gwyn in Welsh, which I photographed in February 2018 ( • Landscape Photography ... ). At that time I was unable to get a wide photograph to take in the entire promontory because there were harsh shadows lying across it. I'm fortunate this time to get the image I was after.
Then onto Holyhead Breakwater. Here I use my ND filter again for a long exposure images of the breakwater. I also do some hand-held landscape photography to capture images of boats and close-up detail of the marina.
Finally, we are at South Stack for sunset photography. A long climb down the steps on the headland to a low point under the South Stack lighthouse. The sunset isn't the best, but I do manage to capture another long-exposure photo. I'm reasonably happy with the image which you can see at the end of the video.
Please do comment to tell me what you think, and subscribe to join me next time!
My budget equipment ...
Camera: Nikon D5500
Lenses: Nikkor 18 - 200mm, Tokina 11 - 16mm ATX Pro, Nikkor 35mm 1.8G prime.
Filmed on Pansonic Lumix FZ150, with external lavalier mic and DJI Spark drone.
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Cracking vlog DAVE. Think you definitely saved the best shot until last. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks mate! Really appreciate your feedback. Don't forget to let me know next time you're round here - I'd love to point you to some of my favourite off the beaten track spots and enjoy an expert's perspectives 👍😀
Thanks for taking us along on your adventures and sharing the stories. Just a relaxing pleasure. Thanks, greetings from Canada.
Hi Lloyd thanks ever so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment. Really glad you enjoy my stuff, plenty more to come. Hopefully I can keep you entertained!😊👍🏻
Your videos are a joy to watch and your images are beautiful
Thanks once again David. Including your settings is very helpful, especially when you explain long exposures. I appreciate that. As usual your photos are wonderful.
Really glad to be able to help you out. Apart of sharing the places I visit I'm always happy to give assistance with how I go about things!
That little beach at Rhoscolyn had some stunningly coloured large pebbles/rocks that would have made a great foreground. I’m gradually making my way through your posts David - great stuff 👍
Yes it's a lovely little cove 😊👍
Stunning last shot, David. For all the times i’ve been passed Porth Saint, I can’t remember seeing the pillar so isolated, the third frame was my favourite. Thanks again for all the effort you put into the vlogs.
Thanks a lot Brian. I'd been planning a high spring tide visit there for a while. But I hadn't reckoned with the easy path down to that part of beach being blocked by the sea!! 😬
D Griff Gallery I did wonder briefly why the walk down was so difficult and assumed it was just slippery!
No I was determined to get to the left hand end of the beach for the angle! 😀
Love that back lit wave image at 7:30. Thanks for sharing
Hi Tony, really glad you liked that one in particular. I don't normally shoot waves, but the light was at just the right angle, but kept coming and going. So I waited and waited. I was convinced that at some point I'd get just the right light and wave combination. 250 or so frames later and I got one!! 😀👍
Very cool as always, love your bomber hat, guess the time for layering is already here.... Wow what a pictures you pulled out from this outing, nice work for sure, the sea has your back always plus light from photo Gods and magical imagery is born... thank you for another splendid outing, cheers C!
I've have some good feedback about the hat Verdon. Just as well, because it's probably going to be a permanent feature for the next few months! 😀👍
Some cracking images and an enjoyable vlog.
Hi Dave, really glad you enjoyed it and many thanks for leaving a comment - hope to keep you entertained in future ... 👍
I really liked the final shot. Very different. The shot of the stack at 3:30 was my favourite.
Thanks a lot for watching Mark, very glad you enjoyed it. And many thanks for leaving kind feedback, I really appreciate it 👍
Superb vlog yet again David with some outstanding photos.....and I liked the trapper hat too :))
Thanks Edward 👍If that weather was anything to go ny the hat will be a fixture for the next few months! Very cozy 😀
Well done Matey another great vlog, so greatfull for all the locations you bring to us on your travels, so we can go and see them and shoot with our take on them,
Thanks a lot, mate! When is your first feature coming out? 👍
@@DGriffGallery in the editing room as we speak matey,
Very much enjoyed this one as always David. What a beautiful day of light too. So many nice images here, but if I had to choose just one, it would be 30 second exposure of the Pillar at 3:30. I really like the composition and it has just the right amount of movement for me. Well done. Cheers, Jeff
Thanks Jeff - yes that was the one that made the website too - I'm pretty ruthless about what images make it onto there! 👍
Throughly enjoyed and video and the images Dave. You really do produce amazing photo’s mate and looking forward to seeing you next month 👍
Cheers Darren - let's hope the weather's good!
another great video!
thanks for sharing this great content with us!
really enjoyed watching this
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to leave your kind feedback. I really appreciate it. Hope to keep you entertained ... 👍😀
Love the one at 9:57 very much - as I do all the 10:13 ;-) Go on like that, David.
Thanks a lot Fredy!! It's great to get feedback that people are enjoying my stuff - especially motivating when I'm on a cliff-top in a howling gale with wind chill just above zero!! There'll be plenty more right through the winter 👍
Awesome vlog, love your descriptive approach to your vlogs keeps it interesting. Your right about the lighthouse it's not often shot from there, makes yours stand out, well done 💪
Hi, thanks a lot for watching and taking the time to leave kind feedback. South Stack is such a tough subject, there are so limited viewpoints that an interesting image does rather rely on something interesting going on with the sky! 👍😃
Another great video Dave, thanks for sharing. Also cracking images as ever. You might not have liked the Lighthouse image too much, but I’d have been well pleased with it.
It's a tough location to create something different from the usual stuff there 😊👍
Love your going the extra mile so to speak, and catching the lighthouse as you did.
Thanks lot, really pleased you enjoyed it. And I really do appreciate you taking the time to comment 👍i did have to stop to recover several times on the way back up - I may be getting too old for this malarkey!! 😀
@@DGriffGallery you're really very welcome! I can definitely relate to needing rest breaks especially going uphill. Nearly 65 and I have COPD requiring me to be careful.
Nice work David. I'm really drawn to that staircase image at7:25 for some reason. I think it's that light giving the copper tones.
Thanks a lot Jeff. You know, I was too. I don't normally shoot that sort of close detail, But I saw it illuminated with that side light and by the time I'd got the handheld settings dialled in it was in shade. So I waited. And waited ... 20 mins later it lit up again for about 10 seconds!! I was glad I did wait though. 👍
Some beautiful shots David, only just found your channel and have now subscribed. Thanks
Alan, thank you so much for subscribing. I really appreciate your support and hope to keep you entertained! And many thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment. When I'm struggling with sound and vision in a howling gale - which is often the case round here - it's good to know there'll be a viewer or two to enjoy it later on! 👍😀
Nice one David a great job. A couple places you can take me to if you don’t mind haha like the low shot of South Sack vary nice and different
Cheers Paul. I'll be more than happy to se you again!! 👍
loved the last shot.enjoyed all you vlogs so far.find it very helpfull you indicate on maps where it is .Dioch yn fawr.
Hi Steve, thanks ever so much for tuning in and taking the time to leave feedback. I always try to share my exact locations, especially the obscure ones because I do like to help people not from round here get the most from it when / if they visit. I do get a bit frustrated watching other peoples vlogs and wondering where they are! 😀👍
Beautiful images, David. The first one of the pillar was gorgeous.
Thanks a lot Mikey - I added all 3 as I just couldn't choose! 😀
Rocking the hat xxx
Hi David. Excellent video ! The images of Gwenfaen's Pillar are beautiful but the South Stack sunset is a stunner. One of the best you've shared on here. Really enjoyed the video David. Many thanks for sharing. P.S. Paul Johnson would be proud of the hat !!!
Hahaha, we vloggers tend to be famed for our hats! My summer cap has been recognised by passing photographers more than once or twice too! But I think this new winter hat will become a "fixture" for the next 6 months now! It's lovely and warm. Really glad you enjoyed this video. I was so cold at times I wasn't sure the photography would do the locations and the light any justice, but the following day on the computer I was pretty pleased with them 👍😀
Amazing, Love this place. friend
Must be a severe case of landscape envy I'm experiencing right now … ;-)
I think I like the shot at 3:18 a tad bit better than the one at 3:25 - but even the third around 3:30 looks fine for me. All shots are really nice!
Hi Christian, I still haven't made my mind up either!! If I was remaking this video now all three would still be in it!! 😀 👍
@@DGriffGallery You might reverse the order to see if the feedback stays the same or changes … ;-)
Lovely vlog David, really enjoyed it. Loved the first image of the pillar at 3:20 - the contrast of those black rocks against the light on the pillar is really strong. I'm pleased to see im not the only one with audio issues in my vlogs!
Cheers Jamie! I'm normally pretty organised when it comes to audio, but I was mad as hell with myself on this one when I checked the footage! 😀😬
Firstly mate great vlog! I really liked the final image and also the one at 7:30 (beautiful light!) and secondly, thanks so much for the end card :-)
Cheers mate, that was about 250 frames to get one shot - I knew there'd be one properly lit up in there somewhere, but the sun was sinking fast behind Holyhead Mountain so it was a race against time! You're totally welcome to the link of course. Hope some good comes of it 👍😀
Thought for one minute my Bose headphones had broke as you where only in my right ear till the music started, 🤣
Oh, I didn't know that the sound was a bit crappy, but as you know I'm not really very proud of my earlier stuff!! 😊👍
@@DGriffGallery proud or not David I'm enjoying all your vlogs, it's a journey from begin to present and well worth watching, I've learnt quite a lot already.
Thank you for that especially.
subscribed ;)
Thanks so much, Russell 😊👍