A number of things have happened since I took the image of a Red Kite looking down at me at The Red Kite Centre at Llanddeusant back in 2011. It was the first outing of a new 70-300mm lens on my old Sony DSLR-A700 which only had a 12Mp Crop Sensor. Those images are shown …
Just occasionally I can breakout from the mould of my photography, and this image shows just one such occasion. The challenge set by the local u3a Photography group was selfies – but with a difference. I must admit I faced the challenge with quite some reticence. It seemed silly; I didn’t want to take photos …
An exercise to see how good a result I could achieve in focus stacking some images, hand-held without a tripod. The technique chosen using Auto ISO, with Aperture Priority set at f22, at a fixed 64mm focal length was to use Auto-Focus and half-depress the shutter to focus on immediate foreground, then move focus point, …
This proved to be an exceptional challenge … in the end, as I was forced to address some oversights in my camera settings and the way I imported my shots into Lightroom. I’ve written about this elsewhere, so won’t repeat the lessons learnt. Suffice to say I’ve learnt a lot more about colour and white …
To finish off the year a miscellany of images taken as challenges set by the Cardiff u3a Practical Photography group. I hope you like them. Happy New Year – 2023 that is! [Psst: ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement]
I needed to get out! It looked as though there might be a nice sunset and we like the Fish and Chips at Beales in Porthcawl. A plan was hatched. I would go ahead and do a bit of scouting – after having got the best location for the sunset (I thought) from The Photographer’s …
The photo above illustrates quite well I think how you can recover so much detail from images that are badly exposed. The original RAW photo from the camera (below) has most of Cardiff’s infamous chippy alley in darkness, clearly underexposed, whilst the building and sky in the background is quite nicely exposed except that the …
Note what you can do with a little help from Photoshop and the sky replacement tool.
The first of a set of images celebrating Cardiff – here the arcades and the old Library are showcased
We had booked a cottage near Portree for five nights – about the minimum you need to see just the north part of the island. I’d always wanted to visit Skye so it was fitting that we’d chosen this as a destination to mark our Golden Wedding Anniversary year. The weather was not bad – …