Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown
Four shots from a recent shoot in Great Western Colliery, a derelict colliery in Hopkinstown near Pontypridd. The two versions of the last shot are due to me being indecisive!
Tag Archives: Photography
Switching Nikon to Canon – A Photography Leap of Faith
I’ve recently taken a leap that surprised even me. For the last four years, since January 2006, I’ve been exclusively a Nikon man. My Nikon D50 has served me very well, with absolutely no issues whatsoever. It was my first ‘true’ digital SLR (well my first with interchangeable lenses anyway, I previously had an Olympus E10), and has been a fantastic piece of kit
Film for Lomography, and Cross-Processing – Things are getting strangely analogue around here…
Following on from the discovery in the previous post, I’ve decided to furnish my Lubitel 166B with some food. Fujichrome Provia 400x slide film to be precise. It’s been kind of weird shopping for film again for the first time in almost ten years – like I said – feels sort of liberating, and I’m not [...]
Lomographic Aspirations
Today, I had a happy accident. Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography. Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera. Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment. Let me explain… Photography is an art. In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics. Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the [...]
Great Court, British Museum
A challenging HDR shot taken in the central Great Court of the BM in London. I love this place, and have spent many an hour chilling out there. This shot was another HDR effort, via the Sigma 10-20mm (at the short end). This time, it was taken with the express intention of producing a mono [...]
Muddy Dreams – HDR Photography
This is a shot created using HDR photography. For those who haven’t heard of it, or have heard of it and don’t know what people are jibbering on about, it stands for High Dynamic Range. A standard camera is only capable of capturing a certain range of tones in a single shot. This means that [...]