Me and my buddy Graham grabbed our cameras one night to go experimenting with colour temperature. Seeing some of Damien Lovegrove’s results (link), we thought we’d do our own version… We setup an umbrella to bounce the flash across the whole scene. Another flash gelled up to colour correct the subject. And a third flash [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Experimenting with colour temperature
Posted in Flash on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ‘look’ in some of my photographs
Posted in Flash, Lightroom, Outdoors on September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the problems I’ve encountered in post-production with my images is imagining how they can look unique? I want some of them to be different, but give a familiarity and look that provides an alternative to the actual scene in real life. My earlier attempts in post-production were pretty basic and it remained so [...]
Montgomery Castle
Posted in Outdoors on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week Graham, Julie and I headed out to Montgomery Castle to shoot and generally mess around with our cameras. Here are a few frames from the shoot…
Taking pub photos
Posted in Flash on September 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As you may have read in my first post, a contributing reason of how I got into photography was through the disappointment in the quality of pictures we all took with point-and-shoot cameras in the pub. All the photos were crap and I really hate that daylight balanced flash to illuminate the subjects and that [...]
Sunset shoot at Dolforwyn Castle
Posted in Outdoors on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My buddy Graham suggested we go out shooting at Dolforwyn castle which is near by. The castle is on a hill and is quite a mission to climb. The castle itself is just the remains of what was… there isn’t really anything very identifiable to use for the foreground unfortunately.
Home no more
Posted in Lightroom on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the town that I live, Newtown in Powys (Wales), we are having a new Tesco store being built. The town already has a Morissons, a Lidle and local grocery stores. I’m not sure if we really need something as large as Tesco’s, but time will tell… On the land that the new Tesco’s will [...]
How I got into Photography
Posted in General Ramblings on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Welcome to my blog! I’m a photographer in mid-Wales in the United Kingdom and I’ll be blogging my photographic journey… I’ve decided to start this blog for a few reasons. Firstly, I’ll be travelling aboard soon for a while and wanted a way of documenting my experience. Secondly, having a photo blog will force me [...]
