North Wales Photo Series

Today's images are a series of photos from North Wales. Three have been converted to B&W, while the final one has been edited in Adobe Lightroom to change the colours completely.

Photo one was taken from the main car park in Porthmadog. Off the left of the photo would be Snowdon in the distance if the weather had been nicer.

Photo two was taken from the carpark opposite Snowdon. By the time we reached Snowdon, the cloud level had descended and left the peak partially obscured by cloud.



Photo three was taken from the Cob on the footpath running next to the Ffestiniog Railway.

The final photo was taken from a layby just before Criccieth. Using Lightroom, I've changed the colours of the original HDR effect image from Greens to Blues to give a more wintery feel to the image. The highlights on the ground now look like snow, and the clouds look moodier.

Basingstoke in Bloom

Just entered my first photo competition. Three categories of photos with two photos per category.

Wildlife

Plant Portrait

Macro

Supermoon

So finally managed to capture some images of the Supermoon after some terrible weather conditions over the weekend.

 All of these were captured on the Sony HX200V while handshooting as the Nikon was on a long exposure on the tripod.

Pop Out Arms

Today's picture is a photo taken at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens which has been edited in Photoshop Elements 11 to create a pop-out effect. I really like this effect and have several other images from back when I first got Photoshop Elements which I can't find at the moment but when I do I'll upload some of them.

Trying out Photoshop

I've signed upto Adobe Creative Cloud thanks to the education discounts provided by Adobe. I wanted to upgrade my Lightroom 4 to 5 anyway and figured £190 a year for all the Creative Suite would be better than paying £60 for Lightroom 5 upgrade and being stuck with Photoshop Elements 11.

So the above image is one of my first photo manipulations in Photoshop CC. It's a combination of two images taken in different parts of the country. The castle is Criccieth Castle in North Wales and was taken earlier this month on a crazy one day trip to Snowdonia. It was taken on the Sony HX200V from a layby on the way into Criccieth, roughly 3/4 of a mile away, using the built-in HDR painting mode. The background sky image was taken in Basingstoke also this month but using a Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm kit lens. It was taken at 18mm with an 8 sec exposure and has been modified in Adobe Camera Raw to darken the space and brighten the stars.

All in all, I'm extremely pleased with the Creative Cloud so far and will hopefully be able to share more creations from Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects and Premiere shortly.

Part Deux

Today's photo is one of the very first photos I took with my Sony DSC-HX200V. It was taken in my back garden using the built-in macro settings.

Day One

So I've decided to start this blog to document my adventures with my cameras. Hopefully I'll be able to post regularly with new pictures.

So here's the first image. It was taken at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Ampfield, Hampshire. I have no idea what type of flower it is, but I liked the way the wasp is entirely within the yellow centre of the flower. You can also see some water droplets on the flower since it was a rainy day.