Landscape Photography Tips - Hawaiian sunset

Hi, I'm Jim Harmer from ImprovePhotography.com and I am in Hawaii and today we are shooting the sunset here. And to be honest, the sunset was a little bit lackluster because it went behind clouds just at the last second but i wanna show you some other things that I've learned to make a photo at the beach where you don't necessarily have as much to work with first of all is choosing the right location we found this spot because I really liked the point out here with the rocks in the palm trees that i saw earlier in the day and that's what brought us back to shoot the sunset but the Sun set straight out that way--not behind the rocks and the trees which I you know sometimes that can really growing up but a lot of times the best colour the Sun set it up right where the Sun is its to the side so that's all right that it went behind let's go up now and find something that a lot a little bit more interest to the shot because if we just shoot the ocean ocean and the sunset sometimes it'll be okay but i don't know that's gonna look like a snapshot since there's not much composition hapening. there so we're gonna walk along the beach and see if we can find something a little bit more inches I like here with the algae growing on the rocks it's just %uh it just has a lot more entrants and I like that we're looking down the stuff each year and seeing all the and Austin palm trees I got fat only to stir the photo I think it's a little bit more interesting than just looking straight out into the Sun now one cool thing as you watch these waves is they splash up an all white water recedes I just really like that I use that a lot in photos so let's get my camera settings. I'm gonna shoot in manual mode I'm set to shoot at f/16 so I get a lot of depth of field I'm shooting I Nikon d800 and a 14 to 24 millimeter lens shooting at about 20 millimetres and when it's that wide on a full-frame camera we're gonna get plenty of depth of field at f/16. I'm at ISO 100 and we all are gonna use a shutter speed of 1.3 seconds because when the water comes up like that I click the shutter and now while it's receding we get all that streakiness that kinda looks misty in the photo. I love this composition. I think it did a lot to the photo I I beautiful beautiful shot now I wanna share your little one last photography tip so I is that love bonus tourists in the shop so one thing you can do is use your same camera settings locked onto a tripod and just don't move the composition and take a photo every five seconds maybe take 6 photos these people are walking all around the beach and so we're gonna go into Photoshop and you'll see now how I can make all the tourists disappear thanks for trying all right we're back from the beach and we're looking at the photos and i wanna show you how to get rid of is an annoying tourists from your photos well you can see that I've taken a photos several seconds apart and so people are moving up along the beach and what we're gonna do now is we're gonna take these photos I took several in a row just about five seconds apart and the tourists moved between a we're going to take a min to Photoshop and we're going to now I run a script to just erase all the tourists because they moved in the photo so this will be easy I've saved those photos out as JPEGs just to make this a little bit quicker um I'm going to file > scripts > statistics in Photoshop cs6 it'll be the same in cs5 and and I'm gonna choose these files here that I've saved is JPEGs smaller JPEGs so this wouldn't take forever on the video and gonna cook open now the important part here is that I've chosen median at the top I can line source images if I need to do but I was on a solid tripod I don't think we moved not just say okay and now photoshop does it's magic grabbing all those photos finding what's different between them and then putting out a finalized stack up images where we see just the difference great I'm gonna go ahead and a rasterize this will see why later and now when i zoom in you'll see almost all those tourists are gone these ones who remain where people who just stayed there on all the photos now I've Ross tries to because now I want to use the clone stamp tool and I can't do that unless the images are rasterized I'm in a quick option on the Mac or alt on the PC and I'm just gonna call on arrested this out with almost all the doors gone the rest to the cleanup job here is very very simple and there you have it there's our file photo with out the tourists for more photography check tips please come to improve photography dot com and to see my very best posts on improve photography dot com go to improve photography dot com slash best and you'll see the best most popular posts that I've written thanks for joining me I'll be all rate and subscribe the video to the video we're trying to get more people on our a YouTube channel work just posting photography tips on here and we're trying to get into a daily habit of posting a video every day so subscribe to the channel: and your won't miss a thing thanks for joining me by