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A belated “Happy New Year”!

Friday, January 14, 2022 Posted in black & white,Christmas,Composition,Creative Photography,Macro,Mobile phone,Movement

At last we are in the year where it will all be better.  Well, I hope so anyway!  Since my last post we have had the Christmas celebrations and New Year’s Day.  I hope yours went well.

One thing I did at Christmas was to go to the Worcester Cathedral Christmas Tree Festival.  There were loads of decorated trees in the Cathedral cloister.  Some were from schools, some from charities and some from commercial organisations.  Most were fab!

Here I’ve used my mobile’s Silky Water mode, (yes, again!), and walked as fast as I could down the cloister.  I had to wait till there weren’t too many people.  I like the combination of warm orangey lights and cooler blue lights.

This is rather closer to home;  well, it’s actually at home.  We had some Xmas lights left over, so we put them in the mini-stairwell going down to our kitchen.  I went up the other stairs and wobbled the phone around in, you guessed it, Silky Water mode.  I simplified the image by converting it to black & white in Snapseed.

Having reached the kitchen it was time to pop my clip-on macro lens to the front of my mobile.  Here are some condensation droplets on the underside of the plastic film on the top of a ready-meal.  It just shows that there are interesting abstract images in the most mundane of things.

I’m thinking of running some photo walks in Worcester.  if you are interested pop me an email.

Landscapes are better in bad weather

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Posted in black & white,Composition,Landscape Photography

Living, as I now do, in Worcester, the Malverns Hills are now a local place to visit.  Although they are called hills, some of the peaks are high enough to be classified as mountains.  Once such is Herefordshire Beacon at 1109 feet above sea level.  It’s the site of British Camp, a huge Iron Age earthwork complex.  The earthworks give a curious silhouette to the hill, and it looks very man-made.

The views from the Malvern Hills are wonderful.  Elizabethan diarist John Evelyn called it “one of the godliest vistas in England”.  There are three cathedrals visible on a good day, but it doesn’t always have be a good day.

On a recent trip there were showers amongst the sunshine and clouds.  By a stroke of luck they all missed me, but they made for fabulous skies and lighting effects.  This shower is about to land on British Camp.  I underexposed a couple of stops to make the sky darker, and to get solid blacks on the hill.

When the shower had cleared away the people on top of the hill reappeared from wherever they had been sheltering, and their silhouettes added an extra dimension to the dark hill and variegated sky.  Once again I underexposed to give more drama in the sky.

Turning to look the other way, there was another shower raining happily in the Pershore area.  The line of the clouds is like an arrow, and the cloud shadow in the foreground helps take the eye to the pouring rain. There’s a sort of reflected symmetry in the shapes at top right and bottom left.  I converted the image to black and white to take away the blue sky.

I’m glad the weather was so variable, and I look forward to many more trips up there.

Reflection and refractions

Monday, October 18, 2021 Posted in Composition,Creative Photography,Garden photography,Landscape Photography,Macro,Natural history

It’s well and truly autumn now and the sun, when it’s out, is at a much lower angle to things than at the same time of day in summer.  That lower light angle means that lots more photographic opportunities arise.

There are very busy spiders living on and around our window frames.  However often you clean off their webs, they spin new ones really fast.  The low angle morning sunlight picked up this one and gave fabulous refraction colours.  The hedge in shadow in the background gave good contrast.  I used a macro lens, and used manual focus with full lens aperture to have just a tiny bit of the web in focus.  The out of focus backlit highlights now look like multi-coloured barcodes.

Landscapes also benefit from the lower angled light.  Here at Sharpness on the River Severn, (no soft images here!), the muddy areas and the river have picked up some delicious reflections from the low sun.  It’s given good contrast.  In fact the contrast was so strong I had to use HDR processing to get some shadow detail back.

The sun’s position relative to a cloud bank meant that the Severn bridges and Oldbury power station were silhouetted against a bright sky.  The reflections off the river put some life into the otherwise just dark foreground.

Low autumn light?  Embrace the change!

A tale of three beaches

Thursday, September 30, 2021 Posted in Composition,Landscape Photography,Travel Photography

I recently had a few days down in the wonderful Gower Peninsular in Wales.  It’s justly famous for its wonderful beaches.  I did wonder, what with all these staycations and everything, that it might be a bit more crowded than usual; it wasn’t!  Sure, there were bits that were busy, but there’s so much space on the beaches that people can spread out a bit.

Rhossilli beach is a case in point.  When the tide goes out the sandy area is huge.  The wind was quite strong so the wave patterns were fabulous.  As the tide was still going out the beach was wet, giving great cloud and sky reflections.  You can see it’s a great beach for dog walking.  I isolated the section of beach I wanted by zooming my Panasonic TZ100 to its longest focal length.

When the tide goes out on these beaches it’s a long walk to the sea for a swim.  These two swimmers on Pobbles beach are taking the chance to have a chat as they walk.  I have placed them in the corner to emphasis the space.  It was a happy accident that they are in step.

One of my favourite places on Gower is Whitford Burrows.  There’s a really long beach with views over to Pembrokeshire in the distance.  It’s less visited than the southern Gower beaches.  It was a delightful surprise to see these Gower ponies running along the beach.  The lines of the seaweed, beach, sea and background have split the image into sections and there’s a nice bit of telephoto compression that makes the background seem closer.

A tale of three beaches.

It’s all about the light – again.

Friday, September 10, 2021 Posted in Composition,Macro,Natural history

I have written previously about how important the direction of the light is in your photography.   Kodak’s advice in the early 20th century was to have the light coming over your shoulder.  That was all well and good in the days when film wasn’t very sensitive, but today we can do the exact opposite, and it brings your images to life.

Shooting towards the light, known as “contre jour”, can bring out translucency and transparency, and add a “rim highlight” to your subjects.  This passion flower leaf and fruit shows translucency on the leaf, and a rim highlight on the fruit.  I held the stalk in one hand, making sure the leaf and fruit were in the sun, and held the camera up to my eye with the other.  The background is a hedge in shadow, which has come out very dark.  It’s a useful technique for separating the subject from the background.

This dandelion flower has some light from the front, but the real interest is added by the out of focus highlights in the background where light is reflecting off a stream.  The spider is a happy bonus, as I did not see it when I took the picture!  I was holding the camera quite a way away from me and using the screen on the back.  It was too bright for me to see details and there were reflections off the camera’s screen.

Here the late afternoon sun is shining through some plants outside the window behind the bowl and making a dappled pattern on the table.  The bowl has a literal rim highlight, and there was enough reflected light to lift the colour inside the bowl.   I placed the bowl as close to the corner as I could to give the longest light line across the frame.

It’s always worth looking hard at where the light is coming from and using it to your best advantage.