Free Trade Inn
I was having a drink in this bar and saw a picture like this one on the wall, so I thought I’d try and reproduce it. The trick was to use a half-pint glass, it looks like a pint – but it isn’t. 🙂
I don’t do people … :-)
I’m not really very good at taking pictures of people, but a wet and miserable day waiting for the Thames River Boat Pageant had to be recorded in some way. Luckily my subjects rose to the occasion, and Lightroom did the rest! Here are a couple more shots taken from the trip …
Sail and Shard
This is a heavily edited image that was taken with the Lumix the day before the Jubilee River Pageant as Jenny and I walked upstream from Canary Wharf to Temple Underground Station on the Embankment. I uploaded it into Lightroom for editing where the photo was enhanced (given the low light levels and general overcast …
Ingleton Falls
A picture from the Yorkshire Dales Photo Workshop. This is where I learnt to do silky waterfalls. The secret, if there is one, aperture priority and use a graduated filter to reduce the shutter speed. I actually like the composition of this image with the river exiting the picture to the right front. Below is …
Packhorse Bridge, Clapham
This image was an exercise in getting the whole picture in focus – a depth-of-field challenge. In post-processing it was to be an exercise in bringing out detail from the mossy bridge in the foreground.
Soaring above you
On a Photo Workshop with Nick Jenkins – Freespirit Images – we spent an hour in a hide at The Red Kite, a centre for feeding this iconic bird near Llandeussant. This was an opportunity to try out my new 70-300mm lens on the Sony Alpha 700. There are some more shots of the kites …
Soar-y-Mynydd in Autumn
Another shot taken whilst on a Photo Workshop. It took me ages to get this one anywhere near right. Getting the correct aperture for the river was reasonably straightforward, but getting some definition in the background and some light in the shadows of the foreground took much more work. No doubt some more work …
A happy accident
Sometimes, you can get a picture that you didn’t mean to take! This is one of those. I was leaning against a tree, to compensate for the lack of tripod, when I slipped and the shutter was released. I can’t say the intended picture would have been better – but this is the one I …
In need of re-furbishment
I’d just got my iPhone 4S, so it would have been a crime not to have tried it out when I was on the Workshop. I think it’s amazing the detail such a simple lens can deliver. The picture is of an out-house behind a chapel which was at that time “For Sale”, underneath the …
Mid Wales in Autumn – Penygarreg Reservoir
This picture didn’t need any post-processing. It’s just as I saw it. A lovely selection of autumn colours in the river valley below the reservoir dam.