I missed 2 days postings since I was in Aberdeen visiting my brother and sis-in-law. The first thing to say about that was that I should be drummed out of the photobloggers league; our excellent hosts arranged for us to go to see Heidi Talbot in a local venue and it was a superb gig...
I couldn’t resist posting my second choice of Dick’s pictures from our 5 grabbed minutes a week ago. This one taken at the monument opposite the Royal Hotel in Oban.
When I met with Ben to do his portrait, the plan was to photograph him Juggling with the “Devil Stick” (if I have the right name)? We mainly stuck to the plan except for perhaps 3 pictures just sitting at the fountain. Anyone who knows Ben’s picture from “100portraits” will know that I went for...
Here are 2 more Oban views from my Oban visit last week. The first one is another handheld HDR image from the 5th floor of the Royal Hotel on its fire escape which I posted yesterday. This was taken with the very wide angle 10-20 giving an effective 16mm focal length on the Canon 40D....
While at the conference in Oban last week I tried a quick handheld HDR image of the fire escape and inner view of the hotel we stayed in. The range of dark low down and brightness high up in the image made it difficult to get a good exposure without HDR. The beauty of the...
I’m regretting giving up the chance of a portrait Matthew – next time you are up here I’ll go for it. There, you’ve got it in writing! 🙂
These are great photos – I think I agree with your comments re the portrait format, but the landscape portrait is a lovely one.