Industrial Landscapes of South Wales: 2
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Author: Tim Collier
Industrial Landscapes of South Wales: 1
We are really fortunate in South Wales to have such a variety of topographical features within a really small area. Continue reading
Laycock
We took a group of students to Laycock Abbey today, an essential for anyone interested in the history of photography.
Waterfall Course
A really committed group worked the falls today and produced some fine results. We visited two locations around Ystradfellte and thoroughly explored many possible ways to photograph water.
Quick Tip 7: Think in Series of Images
All too often we are searching for the ultimate shot, singular, instead of working with a series of photographs.
Club Competitions: Good or Bad?
Last night I gave a presentation on environmental portraiture to The Porthcawl and Pyle Photographic Society. During the evening a couple of questions were raised about how a judge would respond to a number of the images I was showing.
Chambre Hardman – At Last!
I was up in Liverpool over Easter and finally managed to get to Chambre Hardman’s studio at 59 Rodney Street.
Spring Walk at Manmoel
The first in a series of walks I’m running with Caerphilly CCBC has come and gone and we were furtunate to have a really fine spring day.
Waterfalls 1
New Equipment – Old Habits
For a long while now I’ve wanted a camera that I can carry around with me, isn’t heavy, has all the manual features I enjoy on a camera and compliments a lot of the long lens photography I’m currently involved with.
An Antidote to HDR
The vogue at the moment within photography is high dynamic range imaging (HDR) and whilst it has certain applications where it can function effectively it is, at the moment, over played. These images are an antidote to HDR and celebrate the subtle within photography.
Beat the Epson Printer Scam
I print using an Epson R2400 Stylus Printer, which has proved to be a really fine work horse over the years. The other day however, I was a little alarmed to see two red lights flashing in a way I’d never witnessed before and the printer completely unresponsive. When I tried to print I got a message telling me that “Parts inside your printer are at the end of their service lifeâ€
Nant yr Arian and Elan
Quick Tip 6: Keep Your Bag Clean
Mallard Rape
As a postscript to the article and comments posted on ‘On Location in Cumbria: 3‘ from a few weeks back it was interesting to witness a female Mallard being raped at Llanelli today.
New: Seasonal Walks
Caerphilly CCBC have asked me to run a series of seasonal walks which we are calling ‘Landscape and Wildlife Walks with a Camera’Â These walks are all free and offer a chance to explore the Upper Sirhowy Valley. It is an area I’ve photographed extensively through various commissions over the last few years and one I have come to love.
Fields of Yellow
Changes Already!
I’ve always said that editing and selection is the hardest part of photography, particularly with your own images and already I’ve changed a couple of the images for the competition!
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
Well I’ve just submitted my images for this competition – as below – So who knows… If you don’t enter you can’t win! You can submit three images per category and as many categories as you like.
