STAYCATION PHOTO SKILLS

HOT SHOT #1

ANDY SAYS

St Cwyfan’s Church, also known as the ‘the church in the sea’, is situated on an island that looks best at high tide, when it’s surrounded by water. We approached from Aberffraw onto a beach that would give us the perfect viewpoint to shoot from afar, zooming in with a long telephoto lens. Drew used his 70-200mm lens, while I zoomed in to 105mm on my 24-105mm, which was still long enough to make sure the church was a decent size in the frame. I then positioned the horizon about a third of the way up the frame and used some of Drew’s neutral density filters to achieve a long exposure of 20 seconds – long enough to add strong motion blur to the waves and clouds.

PRO TIP

CHANGING LENSES

Drew switches between his wide-angle and telephoto lenses when shooting landscapes, but taking the lens off on a sandy beach isn’t without issues… To avoid sand getting into the camera, which could cause dust spots or damage the sensor, Drew finds a place