OK, I know the picture of the Trotternish Ridge and the Storr on Skye is a bit of a cliché, but who can resist. It was a bit grey and overcast, so increase contrast and black and white conversion focuses on what matters in this ridge; the prehistoric, folded landscape. For those who are interested,...
In my last posting I shared my photo session with my friend Petrea’s tango band in Edinburgh. The bandoneon player from her band, Roberto, organised a weekend of workshops to learn from the expert bandoneon player Victor Villena (ex Gotan project and currently playing with Quintetto EL DESPUES). He was teaching about tango idiosyncrasies and...
Shortly before Christmas, as the current endless cold snap was taking a grip, I was treated to this beautiful light while travelling from Kilmacolm toward Bridge of Weir. Those are wind turbines in the distance. (f18 1/200 (80 x 1.6) ISO 200)
These are a few images from Edinburgh’s torchlit procession on the 29th December. The exposure was a real challenge as the light levels were so low, and the contrast between the burning torches and peoples’ faces was so large. I don’t mind admitting that the hit rate for these pictures was pretty poor. I took...
No-one could ever accuse me of being a landscape or architectural photographer, so you might be surprised that I am posting some pictures of an Abbey. Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire is a 15th century ruin preserved by the national trust. It is a photography playground because of the shapes and forms everywhere you look. It...
Stunning shots. Are these using tone mapping (a recent addition to my skills)?
Thanks Dick, no tonemapping/HDR used. I used curves in lightroom and i’m fond of the “clarity control” to add a lot of mid-curve definition. I do enjoy HDR and these would have been interesting candidates, but lightroom is so good at pulling shadow detail out of an underexposed RAW that it it’s almost not worth the footer of multi exposures. As you know the 40D’s 6+ frames a second makes handheld triple exposures for HDR highly tempting. The 7D is apparently 8 per second. I’ll experiment with that soon.