It would be a shame not to record autumn in Cardiff. Perhaps not the best for colours, but still a lovely sight. So here are a couple of shots taken in Roath Park in mid-November which I’m reasonably happy with. The one above is taken looking towards the rose garden, the one below (in …
This is a bit of an experimental shot – one for the Lightroom enthusiasts maybe. It was taken inside the Chapel at the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans, Cardiff. The shot above is after processing in Lightroom, the shot below how it came out of the camera. I had been reading about how …
Not the greatest of days for photography, but you have to work with what you’ve got. In this case it was just this single shot, because soon afterwards I was feeling a bit under the weather and had to call off the walk I was having with Joe and Simon along the Brecon & Monmouth …
An exercise in Black & White, on a very grey day with the U3A Photography Group, and of course reflections too (I used my polarising filter quite a bit) … But not all images benefited from the B&W treatment. For instance this one (with a little bit of colour enhancement) would not have looked as …
After processing in Lightroom … … and before processing in Lightroom. The EXIF information about the shot above as taken from the CameraISO 100 1/5sec at f/13 with a Sony A7r and FE 24-70mm F4 OSS lens @ 70mm The post-processing I applied in Lightroom. The first thing I did was rather unusual for me, after …
If you look through my Galleries or Albums you will soon realise I rather like taking pictures of rivers, waterfalls, and the like. It’s obviously a throwback to my days as a fluvial geomorphologist and hydrologist. I think I’ve just about got the “silky” water effect cracked now, although when you’re short of light to start with, …
This is not a great picture, especially since my sister is in the middle of it :-), but I’m celebrating the discovery (by accident) of a different way of using spot removal in the Develop module in Lightroom. Up ’till now I’ve only seemed to get a circle that I could enlarge or decrease the …
This time after doing the crop to straighten the horizon and centre the piece of driftwood, I did an exercise with the clarity, vibrance and saturation sliders in Lightroom. I’ve done this on several images in the past, but this time I tried every possible combination of them set to their maximum settings to see …
Another shot taken on an overcast day that with a touch of Lightroom becomes an interesting image.
The software in iOS 7 allows the iPhone to take panoramic pictures. You can overdo it a bit, of course, and you do get a lot of visual distortion, but that’s what I like about the picture above, plus it’s the only way I know of getting ALL the city Tyne Bridges into one shot. …