Photography

The view from the bible

Detail at the Cathedral

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 …

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"Chippy Alley"

Cardiff – Chippy Alley “recovered”

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 …

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In a roundabout way

Penarth and lights

[Click on an image to scroll through them in full screen and see the EXIF data as well.] It was a lovely clear evening and I thought it was about time I shot the Esplanade (the sea front) at Penarth, with it’s wonderfully restored pier. Unfortunately, just as I setup with the tripod to catch …

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Chepstow Castle - a panorama

A hand-held pano – Chepstow Castle

Another “technique” shot! High-up on Marten’s Tower, no tripod to hand, can I do a hand-held pano-shot. You bet I can! Really pleased how this turned out. I could have rested the camera on a wall I suppose, but I’d have lost quite a bit as I swung the camera round, so I tried to …

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St Mary’s Lighthouse

This must be one of the most photographed lighthouses in the UK. I must have shots from at least three visits to it. So, the challenge was to try and find a different view or perspective to take it from, and make use of the early afternoon May light. The tide was out revealing rock …

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Des-Res (Sky 1)

Sky replacement – your choice?

There was something about this view that somehow made me think “there’s an image there, if only I can find it”. So in post-processing I did just that, I cropped it, and enhanced the sky a little and got the image I wanted. I published it to Flickr … However, I got the comment that …

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