 Good morning, welcome to the land of light and shadow We're on the Oregon dunes Well, my wife and I decided to make a quick trip to the Oregon coast and we're camped I had a campground right next to these Oregon dunes And so I thought I'd try to get here this morning and look for something to photograph You know, you would think it'd be easy just to there should be something here You know, it's kind of photography super easy. It's just shadow on light but getting Getting that right mixture, you know good balance That's the hard part. So We're gonna keep looking and I think I might just head the opposite direction. I went last time I Think right now the light on this on this side over here looks better. So We may be hiking across this little Valley and Checking out these things over here today because I've already been that way once Just standing right here. It's just beautiful a beautiful view a beautiful view doesn't necessarily mean a beautiful photograph though. So I Need to find something to photograph All right. Well off we go well looking for a clean piece of sand Been a few people out here this this week and I'm looking for Shapes that I can can use with the shadow and really you think that's easy, but it's it's really Fairly abstract in nature often and it can be difficult. Don't worry. We want to point the camera just at anything I'm seeing a lot of close Where I think oh, we're getting close to something like this right here. I love the layers In the texture, but I'm not sure I'm sure if this is enough to make me stop him You know when you start commit to a shot it takes a while so Even in digital, but I might make a few frames here this A little bit a little bit more into the Sun than I'd like but I Kind of like the layered effect. We got some a Light section right through the middle This is purely just light shadow Super super minimalist and there might be something up here, too This might be where we start making our first shots The trick is when you're shooting dunes is to be aware of your footprints. I want to shoot from a further way and they work my way closer and That's the closer I get there might be new shots that they show themselves But if I start close and move my way back then of course I'm shooting over my tracks I'd rather not do that. So I'm starting at the bottom of these dunes and I'm gonna kind of work my way up and See what we can find But that's the first shot There's a lot of real subtle stuff out here which is kind of my My style photography If you get my photography Often you get the subtle you you can I'm often surprised when someone gets what I'm trying to do with photograph Because it it can be on the vague side sometimes it can be a bit subtle but there are some people once in a while that Know exactly what I was trying to do whether it's successful or not and Those are the people that probably subscribe to my channel So you can tell there's not a whole lot of them All right, let's let's move up. I Still think I'm gonna I could work in this area here So I'm gonna do some more shooting here, but I need to recompose Well, I've moved up the dune a little bit. I'm closer now and I'm attracted to this pattern in foreground that kind of leads the eye along this side of this dune These are really simple shots. I'm I'm just shooting fairly quickly and moving because the lights changing pretty fast There's something on the other side, dude. I wanted to try with a little bit longer lens But I really wanted to try to get I just love these swooping lines and the It's just simple stuff, you know But since I don't see the stuff we're often to me. It's like oh how exciting It's just man. The dunes are just beautiful But in the short time I've been out here I Can already see that the light has changed so much So I've got to work fairly quickly this morning to get Before the sun gets too high and then it just flattens out the dunes. These are aren't huge dunes. They're just You know, there's nothing real dramatic about them, but it gives you a chance to play with the light in the shadow That's all we're doing really. It's just playing Well the spot I thought looked pretty good Like 15 minutes ago maybe 20 minutes ago And the sun's already moved enough to where it doesn't Doesn't have the the shapes that I was seeing before But I think this might be a Interesting spot in the evening. I'm gonna try it in the evening. I think I'm gonna come back here tonight and I'll show you what I'm looking at There I don't know if you can see this but there's some Kind of S curves through this sand right here that the Sun is shining this direction Might cast some interesting shadow if this was winter the Sun would Really stay fairly low for quite a while Because this is still Sort of summer. There's just not quite enough Angle to get the texture. I'm wanting out of these dunes right now At least these here and I don't want to trample over them While the lights not that good, but there's a lot to play with here in the shape So I think I can work work around in here. So we'll uh, we'll come back I think this is where my evening shoot will be right here and that's part of the deal you got to kind of Plan out your shoot when you're not familiar with the spot a lot of times a lot of it's just Planning for a later shoot. There's so much ground to cover and There's not a shot everywhere You know it's Just kind of have to look for the The light and shadow and and chase it and this morning It's here. I chase it to this spot this location And I think I think that's all I'm gonna get That's all right. I need to go back to camp and eat some food didn't kind of hunger anyway So we'll continue this Just a little bit Well, I'm back and this is the other end of the day. I'm back the same location. I was this morning And I'm photographing these little squiggly lines these little shapes these little I Don't know what shape that is but they're repeating and they kind of go up this up the dune here and This is kind of what I was Pitchering this morning, but the light was at a different angle, and I was thinking that if I came back in the evening There might be some interesting texture here. I don't know if this was worth the walk It was quite a walk out here But I'm going to the slice still getting better it's I probably have about an hour left to shoot But I'm gonna shoot this and then walk around here and see what else I can find my heart wants to wants to Take every piece of gear I I can bring with me just in case I Should have listened to my head my head said, you know, you might want to go back with a lighter load It was a lot this morning Well, I didn't listen to my head I Packed all my gear for probably no good reason. I should have probably this should have been Paired down to a really light kit because it's a lot of work getting out here By the problem of shooting these dunes is the Everything's so far apart. So once you commit to a certain area you really It takes so long to get to another spot You're really kind of stuck with what you got and this is where I decided I was gonna come this this morning I said I'm coming back here. I'm gonna work this area I think that the organ dunes is one of those things where you need, you know, three or four days To really just kind of wander around and find things and One day isn't gonna cut it. I'm just gonna have a few shots and I'm hoping for a one or two that I go Oh, I like that Fingers crossed, you know, you're you kind of put all your eggs in a basket. This is the basket. I chose today So I'm gonna get to shooting because The light is gonna go fast Now I'm shooting with my 85 Probably start switching to the wider lenses as I move in a little bit closer just to see if there's a another focal length that will give another look, you know The Tell photo the short tells us compressing the scene a little bit It's really focusing in in all the repeating lines I might zoom in on a couple of them with or get close to one or two of them with the wide angle lens and Show them in a totally different way We'll see I I Don't want to get too close and mess up Something that you know It's a gamble because if I get too close and then the sun gets to a certain spot and that spot all of a sudden got better I ruined my shot So I'm trying to be a little bit careful here But I think I'm getting what I want with the telephoto. So I might try a couple with the wide shots I might even put the four by five Well, I got to get back to camp It's been a pretty productive shoot a couple hours in the morning couple hours in the afternoon. So I'm in today's video right here Until next time. Thanks for coming out for the ride