Mawddach Estuary
This Mawddach Estuary image was a 10x6 grid of images focus-stacked vertically and aligned into a panorama horizontally….
Today was characterised by not really taking photographs of any of the things I’d gone to see.
“Dry-Stone Rhythms”
Not taking Portmeirion seriously.
Menai Menai
Do-Doo Do-Doo-Do
Trwyn Du Lighthouse
…I can’t do it!
Compare and contrast (Martin Parratt).
Having spent a couple of hours at Madingley Hall yesterday just knowing there was something to be done there despite the line of cars on the forecourt, the barren garden, and the photographers everywhere (!), I’ve spent the morning looking at Frank Machalowski’s work and lambasting myself for pissing away a good opportunity.
So I’ve been trying to get multiple exposure through my skull.
American Cemetry
Madingley Church
First crack at freezing flowers. It’s very hard to get a clear patch, even with distilled water as used here.
Orwell Bridge
Beach Huts
A power cut in the Milton Keynes market today…!
I might need to try this again when they’ve dried out. I thought moisture would be nice, but I’m not so sure now. Anyway - this is me experimenting with Helicon for focus-stacking and if anything it’s a damn sight quicker that Photoshop.
Strikes 2a/2b. Back with dry plants, and an extension tube…
… and bi-colour processing.
As usual - Completely unable to decide between mono and colour.
Quite pleased with my results from the Serial Print 2023-2024 Round 3 last night.
I think that is the final round and, if so, the leaderboard reports that I have come joint 9th from 21 in the Mono and joint 6th from 23 in the Colour. I’m happy with that given the troublingly high quality of the Cambridge club.
Sidenote - this colour image has been marked down by two separate judges for being a) too bright, and b) too dark.
Spent most of today on a fixed 100mm macro, which served surprisingly well. It seemed to be the right focal length for natural-looking people shots, without being right up in their face. The long-exposure couple were both on my 15-35mm as I was experimenting with my ND10,000 (!) filter. It turns out that you do not really need fifteen minute exposures for anything, but it is great at removing people. You can’t really tell but Westminster Bridge was heaving for its whole length, but the exposure removed nearly everyone.
Judge: Jim Bennett
Jim, because he’s nice, but also because he has taste obviously, held back all of my entries tonight, which is cool.
None of them bloody won, mind.
Came first in the Royston Photographic Society Knockout competition last night! (Pair-wise elimination, last-man-standing, with 90 images.)
I’m still totally in the dark as to how a grand-slam works with 90 images. Some don’t appear until round two. Some perhaps until round three. Some rounds have an odd number of entries. It’s all mysterious.
Results for the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Open PDI Cup 2024.
Results for the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain Nature cup.
Hmm. The spiders was my best shot, so I’m pleased that is reflected in the scores. I’m not used to scores out of fifteen though, so nine really smarts!
Results from the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain 2024 Trophy
Three judges score each image out of five and the total is the score.
This image, blurred, duplicated, layer-flipped, layer opacity 50%, sharpened, texture-increased, desaturated, and vignetted. Improved.
