ICM, macro and lensball
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]
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HDR and me
I’ve dabbled with HDR over the years, but it’s never become as fundamental a part of my photography as perhaps it should. So … spurred on by a U3A project, I’m going to share with you three photos that got the High Dynamic Range treatment in Lightroom. But before we get there you need to …
Shapes and The Bay
A selection of images taken on a lovely sunny November day on the theme of “shapes” – a Cardiff U3A Photography Group “photoshoot”. I’m not sure whether this shot was a success; nice and sharp in the lens ball, but difficult to see what it actually was!! There’s quite a media village in Cardiff Bay …
Cathays Park in detail
I never realised the stark symbolism in the statue that stands on the left-hand side of the Glamorgan Building – the former HQ of Glamorgan County Council, when that county still existed. The front side shows roman gods and goddesses (lords and ladies) – the wealthy in other words – and behind, hidden from view …
Lest we forget
A U3A Photoshoot and we were asked to think about “detail” and that doesn’t necessarily mean macro-photography. To make it even more difficult we were restricted by the places we could go to due to Local Lockdown – we couldn’t leave the City and County of Cardiff – so its back to Cathays Park, a …
Framed
Apologies – I’ve been catching-up on my posting. It seems strange to say that I’ve not had the time in these strange times, but it’s actually true. I’ve been able to put images up on Flickr, but have fallen behind with both the blog and Instagram posting. Hopefully, I’ll be back to the weekly post …
A walk from Penarth to Cardiff Bay, across The Barrage
The May photo shoot for the U3A Photo Group took us to the Cardiff Bay Barrage, with a theme of “lines”. I tried my best to comply using leading lines where possible, going from left to right (where possible), and incorporating the quirky wherever possible as well – beds of sedimentary rock pointing towards Penarth …
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A day at the seaside with the U3A
A full-day Shoot with the Cardiff U3A Photo Group with Nick Jenkins in attendance. Nick is not only known to me by my attendance on several of his Photo Workshops, he’s also a close neighbour of one of our group members, so he was invited to come down to Llantwit Beach to help us with …
Belle Vue Park, Newport
Four more images from my Newport trip on a lovely sunny day in February. I’m staggered at how I managed to keep the camera that steady for the first one – 1/20sec!!!! [EXIF: 1/20sec @ f/22; ISO 100; Sony ILCE-7RM3; Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS @ 105mm] Several attempts to get this shot, …
Swinging crocuses – an experiment in impressionism
In the post Whoosh I declared that I’d made some plans of what I wanted to take on my visit to Newport. Well another shot I wanted to try and re-create was the impressionistic accident I once captured at Soar-y-Mynydd in mid-Wales, which I called Serendipity, when I stumbled with my finger apparently on the shutter-release. …
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