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many of the waterfalls an Icelander very
easy to access but out of foster
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requires a little bit more effort but
it's totally worth
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northern Iceland where it out their
fault it's a very very impressive
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waterfall you hike down and when you get
to the bottom it reveals this beautiful
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chasm and this big pool of water
waterfall shooting water cascading
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towards you
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we got here in the Sun started to come
up on the right through these beautiful
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colors which are still back there now
the colors have been going nuts for the
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last hour and a half its amazing this
morning the first thing I did when I
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came down here is I scouted different
vantage point I kind of follow this
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rocky ridge line around and tried to
figure out the best composition possible
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once I established this competition was
my favorite I set the camera up and I
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haven't actually moved it for about two
hours the sky is just been transforming
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so much that I wanted to capture it it's
very best moment so we take a look at
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the images at the beginning of the day
the first thing in the morning when I
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first set up the sky was just starting
to let up a little bit but the route
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time you can see how progressively
getting better and better and better
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talking a little bit about the
composition first what really caught my
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attention was the pool of water below I
love how it fills the frame from left to
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right and leads into the shape of the
waterfall and then into the incredible
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sky so I had a feeling that if I use a
neutral density filter and added a long
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exposure fact that since that water is
cascading towards me that it's going to
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create streaky lines and tendrils of
detail so there was a point where the
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Sun started to come up and we had
incredible colors and it kind of Pete
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and once it started to decline so
usually you'll notice of the colors or
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get really vivid you'll start to see
really nice reds oranges and yellows and
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then as soon as it starts to fade off
you actually visually notice that those
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colors become less saturated this time
of year since its winter time the Sun
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moves so slow that it's a gradual
transition so it gets hit its peak sits
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there for a little while and then it
starts to gradually decline of big piece
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of advice that I like to give to all
photographers is to arrive at your
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location as early as possible and this
is for a couple reasons one reason is it
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gives you enough time to scout out the
location thoroughly and make sure you
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settle on your favorite composition
secondly it gives you time to audition
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all of the light as it's changing so I
had no idea that the light was gonna
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last as long as it did but I was set up
here and ready to capture it just in
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case it was a brief moment in time so
right now if I wanted to do one exposure
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and I just hit the camera trigger it
would expose for the foreground and my
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sky would be blown out I could change
the settings in camera to expose for the
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sky but then my foreground is going to
be really really dark so instead I'm
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gonna use a feature in camera called
auto exposure bracketing that's going to
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allow me to shoot a regular exposure and
then under exposures and over exposures
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exposure bracketing is a technique that
I use in more than 90% of my images
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because it allows me to capture any
environment that has a great range of
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light so let's take a look at the camera
and let's see exactly how auto exposure
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bracketing words some of the press the
bracket button and Sunday tennis right
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on the side next to the flash but when I
press that it's gonna ask me what I want
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to do in AM and FM dial to the right and
it's going to go from three to five so
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basically if i sat at three it'll do one
under and one over this camera has the
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option to go all the way to nine which
means for under and for over for this
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scene we're just gonna use five which is
two-under and two over now the number in
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the upper right knee in stocks right now
at five exposures I have two stops under
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and two stops over now you can change
this to actually be two stops or even
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three stops you can also bring it down
so do a third of a stop so I like for
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most of my scenes just use one . so for
this shot we're going to use five
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exposure bracket that's to wander into
over and these are at one stop now of
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course I can also do this manually by
toggling the settings in between shots
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but auto exposure bracketing does this
automatically for you
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one of the reasons I love using auto
exposure bracketing as opposed to doing
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everything manually is it prevents me
from having to touch the camera too much
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and possibly moving the composition so
let's take a look at the camera now the
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first thing I'm going to do is show you
a single exposure
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and then I'm gonna show you five
bracketed exposures so now my camera is
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set to the basic settings that I usually
use at eight ISO 64 so I'm gonna go
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ahead and take a single exposure so as
you can see I have a really nice
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composition the foreground is pretty
much correctly exposed the water is a
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little bit blown out and when I say
blown out I just mean we're losing a
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little bit of those highlights getting
lost in white and clearly you can see
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that the sky is way way too bright I'm
gonna need to adjust this exposure in
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order to compensate for that so I
decided to change my camera settings
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just a little bit by default when you
take exposure brackets and automatically
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take the neutral media exposure first
and then an under and over so when you
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review these files when you click on
your image preview it will show you the
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media exposure and the negative one and
+1 and so on and so on I don't really
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like that I change the order so that
it'll take and show me negative 10 and
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positive ones so in this case it's gonna
show me negative to negative 10 positive
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one and positive to say that I can see
them in order and this is something that
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you can change easily in the cameraman
you if you want to change the order of
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your exposure brackets you can go into
your menu go down to the custom settings
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menu down to bracketing and flash and
then down to bracketing order in this
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section you can say under and TR and
over the default is NTR under over now
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this is great because we look at our
Lightroom catalog we're gonna have all